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Mock Tribunal in Action

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Learners role-play as members of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. They participate as members of the prosecution, defense, and other parties involved with the trial of alleged war criminals.
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Genocide: Past & Present

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students visit the Holocaust Musuem through an interactive program. They examine Hitler's Final Solution and where concentration camps were located. They analyze how the situations in Auschwitz are similiar to Darfur.
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Overcoming Censorship Through Art

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create an art piece that expresses their opinions while circumventing hypothetical government restrictions in this lesson on art and government censorship. Emphasis is placed upon historical instances of censorship around the...
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Charles Baudelaire: Poète Maudit (The Cursed Poet)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
After learning the main ideas of the Decadent movement, learners work in small groups to read and translate poems by the French poet Charles Baudelaire using basic etymology skills. They then read the accurate English translations to see...
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Mosquito Life Cycles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students gather mosquito eggs to record the mosquito life cycle using drawings, descriptions, and any other appropriate means. In small groups, they analyze and describe the process of complete metamorphosis. They classify mosquitoes...
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John McCain

For Students 4th - 6th
In this reading a passage about John Sidney McCain III worksheet, students read facts and answer multiple choice, true and false, and fill in the blank questions. Students answer 14 questions.
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Secret Message

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students understand the important use of codes during World War II. In this World War II instructional activity, students recognize the accomplishments of Hannah Senesh in carrying valuable information during the war. Students complete a...
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Slave Auctions in South Carolina

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine primary sources in the form of auction records, create frequency charts, graphs and diagrams that they analyze to anwer questions followed by the writing of a paper that demonstrates their comprehension of the lesson.
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Soldiers in the Philippines

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the Philippine War and the treatment of Filipino soldiers.In this Philippine War instructional activity, studnets analyze documents and inquire as to why there was such brutality. Students use graphic organizers to...
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Breaking News English: CIA

For Students 5th - 10th
In this CIA worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and more...
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Zimbabwe 'Blood Diamond' Trade Talks Collapse

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore the reasons diamond sales were halted overseas.  In this lesson, students read an article that focuses on diamond trade and diamond sales, then complete numerous activities that check the reading comprehension of the...
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Holocaust Remembrance Day

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Teachers could begin lessons about the Holocaust by having students read "The Diary of Anne Frank."
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Colonialism in South Africa/Apartheid

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the effects of colonization. They explore the role of nationalism as a force opposed to colonialism. Students identify the important figures and events of the apartheid era.
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Michelle Bachelet

For Students 4th - 8th
In this famous person learning exercise, students read a passage about Michelle Bachelet  and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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Guy Fawkes Day

For Students 5th - 6th
In this ESL worksheet, students read and listen to a brief history and celebration of Guy Fawkes Day in Britain. Students answer twelve questions related to the story. One worksheet has story and questions. Another worksheet has just...
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The Lesson: Tibet

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discover details about Tibet. In this Tibet lesson, students visit selected websites to discover information about human rights, the Dalai Lama, and Buddhism. Students create prayers or poems in support of the Dalai Lama after...
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Beethoven: The Sound and The Fury

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students view a documentary on Beethoven. His immortal compositions have survived for generations and are as much a part of the modern world as they were almost two centuries ago. After viewing, students discuss Beethoven and compare him...
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What? You want me to read AND enjoy it?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars appreciate independent reading through learning about authors and genre.
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Asylum Talk Show

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the case of a German ship containing Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution in the late 1930s. They conduct Internet research, watch a video, and role-play passengers from the St. Louis on a simulated...
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Child poverty in Argentina

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students read the story "Argentinean kids march 4,500km for rights." they are introduced to the phrase "human rights" and are asked for a working definition. They discuss how the students were made to live and how would they feel if...
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Prisoners of war

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the theory of Prisoners of war. Students investigate various human rights issued thru the Geneva Convention. Students relate learned facts to the American troops being killed in Iraqi fighting.
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Protection

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create dolls in a variety of skin tones to help reinact different community helpers. They make a helping hands mural on butcher block paper. They adopt a doll and demonstrate how to treat others gently. They discuss along...
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The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

For Students 10th - 11th
In this Screwtape Letters learning exercise, students define six vocabulary words from Letter 15 and answer eleven comprehension questions about the reading. Students can also answer sixteen extra credit vocabulary words.
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Number the Stars

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Language Arts learning exercise, learners read an introduction to the novel Number the Stars. Students read about the how the author, Lois Lowry, researched about the Danish Resistance.

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