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Myths, Mysteries, Treasures, and Interesting Places in History and Beyond - Activities
This section contains TONS of activities on myths, mysteries, treasures, and interesting places. Use the filters to sort by grade level or activity type.
Paul Bunyan Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 314 Words; LEXILE: 1110
Mayan Civilization Reading Comprehension Series: Religion - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Mayan Civilization Reading Comprehension Series: The Pyramids - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Mayan Civilization Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
The Making of a Mummy Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Mayan Civilization Reading Comprehension Series: Religion
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Market Street Catacombs Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Musée Patamécanique Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a detailed passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Musée Patamécanique Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a detailed passage and five multiple choice questions.
The Mysterious Eye of Providence
Description: This fun activity explores the symbolism and meaning behind the "Eye of Providence" - the bizarre and misunderstood symbol on the back of the U.S. One dollar bill. Students must conduct an interview with the eye-pyramid in which their questions and answers will try to explain the meaning. Following their work, the final page provides the actual meaning of the various symbols and students can compare their thoughts with the actual symbolism.
Famous Images in History Jigsaw Puzzle - Eye of Providence
Description: This awesome jigsaw allows students to make their own jigsaw pieces, or, allow the program to auto-cut pieces.
Paul Bunyan Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a descriptive passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 314 Words; LEXILE: 1110
The Making of a Mummy Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Secret Passages - Online
Description: This section includes descriptions and details about secret passages, their functions, and how they were built.
Secret Passages Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 379 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Track 61 Reading Comprehension (New York Subway)
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Honus Wagner and the T206 Baseball Card Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 318 Words; LEXILE: 910
Famous Images in History Jigsaw Puzzle - T-206 Honus Wagner
Description: This awesome jigsaw allows students to make their own jigsaw pieces, or, allow the program to auto-cut pieces.
What Happened to Amelia Earhart? - the Gardner Island Theory Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 441 Words; LEXILE: 1110
The Gurdon Light Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions.
The Four Dollar Declaration of Independence
Description: This fun story-writing prompt tells the story of a Philadelphia man who found an original copy of the Declaration of Independence behind an old painting that he bought for $4.00. The prompt challenges students to tell a similar tale of how they find a valuable historical artifact in an improbable place.
Inverted Jenny Postage Stamp Coloring Page
Description: This is a beautiful coloring page that features an authentic Inverted Jenny postage stamp.
The $3.5 Million Dollar Pokemon Disaster Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.
The Inverted Jenny (rare stamp) Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 460 Words; LEXILE = 910
The Donner Party and the Forlorn Hope Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 414 Words; LEXILE: 910
The Donner Party and the Forlorn Hope Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. LENGTH: 414 Words; LEXILE: 910
Egyptian Pyramids Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 237 Words; LEXILE: 810
Egyptian Pyramids Reading Comprehension - Online - Details Focus
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Egyptian Pyramids Reading Comprehension - Online - Main Idea Focus
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Egyptian Pyramids Reading Comprehension - Online - Contextual Vocabulary Focus
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Freemasons Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH = 367 Words; LEXILE = 1010
Freemasons Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.
The Great Sphinx of Giza Reading Comprehension
Description: This is a printable reading comprehension passage and multiple-choice question set. There are seven questions.
Thor's Well Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions.
Egyptian Pyramids Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 237 Words; LEXILE: 810
Bermuda Triangle Reading Comprehension
Description: This is a printable reading comprehension passage and multiple-choice question set. There are seven questions.
The Inverted Jenny - Video
Description: This is an embedded CNN video that describes the recent sale of an Inverted Jenny.
The Inverted Jenny (rare stamp) Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 460 Words; LEXILE = 910
Famous Images in History Jigsaw Puzzle - Inverted Jenny
Description: This awesome jigsaw allows students to make their own jigsaw pieces, or, allow the program to auto-cut pieces.
The Kraken Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 332 Words; LEXILE: 1110
The Kraken Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 332 Words; LEXILE: 1110
Lost Colony at Roanoke Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 426 Words; LEXILE: 910
Lost Colony at Roanoke Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 426 Words; LEXILE: 910
Mayan Civilization Reading Comprehension Series: The Calendars
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Mayan Civilization Reading Comprehension Series: The Calendars - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Mayan Civilization Reading Comprehension Series: The Pyramids
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
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