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Lesson Plans Using Calendars

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students can learn about the history of calendars and the use of time management skills with these lesson plans.
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The Basics of Biochemistry

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Science teachers can introduce basic chemical concepts to biology students.
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Dilemmas and Dealing with Them - Secrets

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students read an article about the secrets young people keep from adults with regards to the internet. Small groups analyze a worksheet of common dilemmas and agree on solutions for each problem. The whole class shares solutions for...
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Money Bags

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compare budgets of various federal agencies and graph the monetary relations between these top-funded agencies. They propose alternate budgets and justify their own monetary priorities.
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Feudalism

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students have tournaments in teams after learning information about The Middle Ages. In this Middle Ages lesson plan, students learn that tournaments are mock battles, but that they will have these battles by answering questions in teams...
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Schools of Thought on Segregation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read a New York Times article in order to explain how American courts and communities are dealing with the unanimous Supreme Court decision to end "separate but equal" education. They analyze how this affects the nation's youth.
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Feeding the World

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students participate in a Socratic discussion about world hunger. In this world hunger activity, students review the Socratic discussion method and use it to discuss an initiative to reduce world hunger. Students answer discussion...
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And It's All for Charity

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students fight poverty. For this current events lesson, students research the listed Web sites to find out how Red Nose Day was established by Comic Relief to raise funds to fight world poverty.
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What was the lesson learned in the story, "One Grain of Rice?"

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete activities with the folktale "One Grain of Rice." In this folktale lesson, 2nd graders discuss the lesson learned in the story. They also tell character traits of the main character Rani. 
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Brown v. the Board of Education

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain the history of race discrimination in the US and about the Brown vs the Board of Education trial.
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Defenders of Justice

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research abolitionists, civil rights advocates, and their allies to learn about racism and justice. In this racism and justice lesson, students define justice and sing a song about activism. Students review the biographies...
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Pigs: A Visual Splendor

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice using visualization to aid in their reading comprehension. After a reading a chapter from the book "Charlotte's Web," students write a brief summary of the plot using their visualizations, aided by reading...
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Judaism

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students brainstorm what they know about Judaism, participate in question and answer session about Judaism and its relation to World War II with guest speaker of Jewish faith, and write journal responses about their feelings on...
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Describe How Money Barter, and Credit Were Used in Colonial Virginia

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders listen as the teacher lectures about bartering. They work in small groups to define and create a skit about one term related to bartering. Students create an Economic Terms booklet. They review that tobacco was a cash crop...
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Now Take a Deep Breath

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners research to answer questions related to deep sea diving. In this deep sea diving lesson plan, students answer questions on a worksheet using the Internet. They discuss pressure, gas laws, and the physiology of diving in the deep...
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Dig In

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explore harvest festivals. In this harvesting lesson, students view photos of Christian harvest festivals and Jewish harvest festivals. Young scholars plan a harvest festival within their own school.
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The Great Society and A Thousand Points of Lights

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils compare 2 preseidental speeches. For this presidential agenda lesson, students compare and contrast a Lyndon B. Johnson speech with a George H. W. Bush Speech. 
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Trustworthiness

For Students 4th - 8th
In this trustworthiness worksheet, students answer a set of true/false questions about whether or not they can be trusted, answer a set of questions about a referenced video and complete writing assignments and students activities as...
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Read To Feed

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read to accumulate pledge money to purchase a heifer for a needy family. In this reading for the needy lesson, students solicit pledges from family and friends for each book they read. They use the money from the pledges to...
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What Kind Of Research Should Our Government Support?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students are assigned to research review groups, which have to decide which of the proposals to fund. The teacher then leads a discussion focusing on the ethical issues raised in the reasons given for each group's decisions.
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Ad Attack!

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students analyze the hidden messages of advertisements targeted to their age group.
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Friends Series One New Year Episode (The One with the Monkey)

For Students 8th - 10th
For this Friends tv series worksheet, students match up the characters described with twenty-two statements from the show. Although this is a worksheet about a tv show, there is some language skill-building present in the worksheet.
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Follow the Drinking Gourd: Poem Activity

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this poem worksheet, students read a selection, "Follow the Drinking Gourd," then read about the background of the selection and complete a related crossword puzzle.