The big advantage of a collage is you can do so many things with it to make it visually appealing from the simple (cutting out/pasting pictures representing items) to the trickier (drawing/painting some events/historical figures/inventions) to making it tactile (instead of talking about the invention of the fountain pen, attach one to your canvas/posterboard.

Below here are some Wikipedia sources which will give you good starting points for what happened over that time span

Or you could do somthing over columbus finding america!

or about the early colonist daily lives!

You could do somthing about the different indian tribes throughout america.

The Gold Rush!

there are many more you can look up!

those are just some intresting topics you can choose. but you could make a Diagram, (or a 3d diagram: you could make mountins and miniture people, and glue it on a piece of paper, and make a whole landscape! You make a replica of the myan temples!

i hope i helped! (im in 9th grade, so i went through this class too!)

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Understand and explain the patterns and why you chose them.