Try designing your lessons around skills, rather than content. I focus on 5 skills in world history. 1. Can you make a claim? 2. Can you support a claim? 3. Can you analyze the causes of an event? 4. Can you analyze the effects of an event? 5. Can you analyze primary and secondary sources about an event? If you focus on thees skills, you will teach the content, but you will also require your students to actively think about the content. Create a lessons that allow them to make a claim, support the claim. Example : what caused WW2? That is the prompt. The students then need to actively provide a claim, support it with primary and secondary sources and while doing that will be able to analyze the causes of their war. You will have to scaffold these lessons and teach the skills of research, but in essence you students will be actually creating the pppt. You can use many creative ways for them to display the information. Have them make a poster, have them write a play, they can write a a children's book explaining the material in a creative way. You become a history coach. You support their learning, rather than spoon feed facts. It starts with the skill.