American History for 8th graders

Well, we have a newly adopted textbook that has turned out to be....boring. Does anyone have any great ideas or units for 8th grade American History? I would LOVE to make my classroom more interactive, and I would also love to have some sort of project that links the year together. Vague, I know, but I am really disappointed with the textbook--it's quite horribly written and goes from way to technical to over-simplified in a paragraph.

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Permalink Reply by Susan on September 9, 2009 at 8:03pm

http://coachgorman1.edublogs.org/

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Permalink Reply by Herschel Sarnoff on April 30, 2010 at 7:23pm

There are a bunch here, I abandoned textbooks for the last 15 years of my teaching career and created these PowerPoint's which come with worksheets, crossword puzzles, tests etc

http://multimedialearning.org/index.php