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Curated OER

Bill of Rights

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students research, list, define and discuss all the aspects to the United States Bill of Rights. They assess their foundations by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson and reflect on all the conditions happening at the time period of...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

If I Was A...? Mother Nature

For Students 5th - 6th
In this environment learning exercise, students pretend they are Mother Nature as they answer 4 questions. They explain whether their temperature gets hotter with a fever, why the Ozone layer is leaving them, how big Mother Nature is...
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Curated OER

Detectives in the Landscape

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore landscapes. In this landscape lesson, 4th graders investigate different elements of landscapes. Students design a visual presentation using photographs taken during a nature walk.
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People are People

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore human diversity in this human rights lesson. Middle schoolers compare novels, speeches, videos, and short stories that promote diversity and basic human rights. They complete daily coursework as they read the selected literature...
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Curated OER

Quarter Conservation

For Teachers K - 1st
Here is another in the interesting series of lessons that use the special State Quarters as a learning tool. This one uses the California State Quarter. During this lesson, pupils learn the many ways they can conserve natural resources...
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EngageNY

Analyzing Images and Language: Inferring about the Natural Disaster in Eight Days

For Teachers 5th Standards
Pictures often reveal different meanings. Scholars analyze the images in Eight Days and discuss how they add meaning to the text. Readers answers questions about how specific colors are used to create different emotions. Learners then...
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EngageNY

Mid-Unit Assessment: Text-Dependent Short-Answer Quiz—The Effects of Natural Disasters

For Teachers 5th Standards
Readers complete a mid-unit assessment by reading the text How Do Hurricanes Form? They answer text-dependent questions about hurricanes with short answer and sequencing. Learners then participate in a read aloud and text chunking...
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EngageNY

End of Unit Assessment: Perspectives on Natural Disasters

For Teachers 5th Standards
Caption this! Scholars complete the end of unit assessment by rereading In the Middle of the Storm. Learners answer written response questions about the text, and then create drawings to accompany their work. To finish, they caption the...
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EngageNY

Mid-Unit Assessment: Analyzing a New Narrative about a Natural Disaster, Part II

For Teachers 5th Standards
See it through my eyes. Scholars complete mid-unit assessment part II by writing an essay describing how the narrator's point of view influences how the story is told in the text In the Middle of the Storm. Pupils also complete a...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History

Voting Rights for Alabama Women

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
What were the arguments put forth by those who opposed the 19th Amendment? For those in favor? Class members examine primary source materials that illustrate the intense debate in Alabama about women's suffrage.
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Curated OER

How Can Children Make A Difference In Their World As Human Rights Activists?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers define term activist, identify and analyze contributions of activists of the past, realize that students can make a difference in their world, identify personal characteristics of high schoolers activists, recognize impact...
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Curated OER

The Right Character Produces Positive Outcomes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the meaning of character and why positive character is important. They explain the difference between character and personality. Students determine the difference between right and wrong character. They explore the...
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Curated OER

The Government and Natural Rights

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to some basic ideas the Framers used in creating the kind of government they thought would best protect the natural rights of each individual and promote the good of all. At the conclusion of the lesson, they know...
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iCivics

Why Government?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Why do people create governments? Where did we get our ideas about government? This is a fantastic introductory instructional activity for your American government class that begins by reviewing the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John...
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EngageNY

Building Background Knowledge: How Canada’s Natural Resources Meet the Needs and Wants of People Today

For Teachers 5th Standards
Learners follow along as the teacher reads Products of Mining in Canada: From Batteries to Vehicles aloud. They then discuss the meaning of key terms and determine the gist of the text. Pupils do a second read and complete a graphic...
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EngageNY

Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: Analyzing a New Narrative about a Natural Disaster, Part I

For Teachers 5th Standards
Scholars complete a mid-unit assessment by analyzing a narrative text, In the Middle of the Storm. Learners determine the gist of the text, identify synonyms, make inferences, and answer text-dependent questions to demonstrate...
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Walt Disney Company

Disaster Preparedness Activity Book

For Students K - 5th Standards
Join the American Red Cross as well as Mickey and friends as they help to prepare young scholars for natural disasters. After reading brief informational passages about earthquakes, floods, fires, storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Boy Scout Merit Badge: Nature

For Students 8th
In this boy scout merit badge:  nature worksheet, 8th graders research the topic using the websites listed, answer 4 detailed questions about plants, animals, and the environment, then perform specific tasks of identifying in the field,...
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

The History and Nature of Science

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Use children's literature, coupled with hands on lessons, to teach the history and nature of science.
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Curated OER

Spirit and Nature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine sources of spirituality. In this religion lesson, students investigate ties between the spiritual and natural worlds. Students design community and personal projects that feature relationships to the natural world.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Student Worksheet

For Students 8th - 12th
In this Enlightenment worksheet, students read a 1-page selection about the decline of The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, examine the listed Web sites on the topic, and then respond to 7 short answer questions about the...
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Teaching Tolerance

Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Explore the impact of the war on drugs in a thought-provoking lesson for high school academics. Young historians delve into the world of the criminal justice system and the racial disparity that occurs in the US. The resource provides...
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DocsTeach

Extending Suffrage to Women

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Votes for women! The activity highlights the push for the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote. High school scholars learn how the Fifteenth Amendment giving African American men the right to vote helped to spark the...
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Curated OER

Exponential Reflections

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High Schoolers explore the concept of exponential reflections. They use their Ti-Nspire to reflect the natural logarithm function over the line y=x. Learners repeat the process using different exponential functions using a slider.

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