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- 5th - 12th
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Students explore the impact of the Klondike Gold Rush on the development of Skagway, Alaska. Lesson can be used in units on western expansion, late 19th and early 20th-century commerce, and urban history. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students create a book about nonprofit organizations in their community. They identify the postive attributes about their community as well. They share their book with the Chamber of Commerce as a way to get involved in their community. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students research their town's economy and quality of life. Using a variety of data, such as interviewing the local chamber of commerce or speaking with the business editor of your town newspaper, students come up with a report card for their area. Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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Students design a promotional poster for a city in their home state. They select a city from their state and write to the local Chamber of Commerce asking for information. They design a poster and present it to the class. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students use a core map and several drawings to explore Captain Cook's journey's in the context of Enlightenment science, politics and commerce. They are introduced to eighteenth-century science and exploration. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students explore the Powers of Congress. They study the Power to tax, trade, borrow, commerce, currency, and additional powers such as the postal power and the power to own territories and other areas. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students identify and explain key concept involving the thirteen colonies including agriculture, commerce, and religion. They break up into groups and design a picture portraying their assigned section dealing with either commerce, religion, plantations, slavery, farms, cities, or the back country. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students discuss the Middle Atlantic region. They use outline maps of the colonies and color-code their maps with information on New England and the Middle Atlantic region. Students label areas with the type of agriculture or commerce, the groups that settled the area, and the dominant religion of the area. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students recognize that the Mississippi River has made its mark on the country's geography, commerce, and literature. They select books to skim and write a summary of the book. In addition, they present their book talks to the class. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students review the basic facts of the Amistad slave ship case. They are challenged to test their powers of close reading by being asked to summarize the decision handed down by the Supreeme Court of the United States in 1841. Students are reminded what a summary, technically, calls for. Full Review »
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