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This lesson enables students to explore and measure the distance between blacks and whites in the past and present United States. By thinking about the intersections of whites, blacks, and others around the blues, students will deepen their understanding Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify musical structure and more specifically song form. A comparison of two popular songs demonstrate the use of form. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students define the Faust theme and explain its long history as a means of understanding humanity's place in the universe and the struggle between good and evil. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students evaluate selected songs as effective tools for social protest and as an historical documents and describe the role music played in the civil rights movement of the 1960s; Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students classify rocks, explore the properties of rocks, become "geologists," and learn what happens when rocks bump into each other. Full Review »
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- 1st - 2nd
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Students sort rocks based on their size and color. They predict how different rocks act in a mixture when it is shaken. They also brainstorm different ways to sort rocks other than color and size. Full Review »
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- 5th - 9th
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Students build rock models out of Play Doh and study them by taking core samples to determine the layers of sedimentary rock that are found in the model. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students discuss significant figures in music history and read an article about the Smithsonian's Hip-Hop exhibit. In groups, they develop and curate an exhibition of hip-hop music and history using artifacts that represent relevant people and events. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students work with material to simulate changes caused by heat and pressure. They assimilate knowledge learned in previous lessons to explain the rock cycle. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students create a real fake rock. They identify the rock's attributes and compares them to their classmates rocks. They discover the difference between igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Full Review »

