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- 3rd - 5th
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Students participate in a game using index cards to help students learn the names of U.S. state capitals. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students draw an accurate map representation of the United States that shows the 50 state and their capitols, Washington, DC, and all the major mountains and rivers. They use grids to create accurate scale on their maps. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students should have been introduced to the fifty states already before completing this activity. Different groups of students focus on different regions of the country and their capitols. They change regions throughout the activity. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students complete a unit of lessons on the documents, symbols, and famous people involved in the founding of the U.S. government. They create a personal bill of rights, write a found poem, design a flag, conduct research, and role-play events. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students study the events in American history that affected the US Capitol Building. They name activities that happen in and around the Capitol by looking at primary source documents that are available online. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students complete a variety of activities reagarding the capitol of Louisiana. They discuss the time period in which the Capitol was built and the building materials used to build it. They design a new 21st century state capitol building and finally, create trading cards of state capitols for at least three other states, which include facts and pictures about each state. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students examine how to measure time, and specifically focus on using time zones in the United States and international time zones. As a class, they discuss international time, the international date line, and elapsed time. Students then solve problems dealing with time differences in a variety of locations around the world. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students explore time zones. They apply information about time zones and elapsed time to solve problems. Students explore the time zones in the United States. calculate the time zones in various places within the United States and examine how to calculate the rate of change in time. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students explore how to use the time zones in the United States and internationally. They use elapsed time to solve problems. Students calculate the time in various places in the United States. They discuss the 6 time zones in the United States. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students observe and demonstrate how to measure and calculate time using time zones in the United States. They read and discuss a chart of the U.S. time zones, solve a variety of problem as a class, and independently solve time zone problems and discuss the solutions as a class. Full Review »

