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\nEvery-Day Edit: \"Levi Strauss Heads West\"\n

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\nIn this editing instructional activity, students read and edit the short paragraph, \"Levi Strauss Heads West\", to find ten errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct each error.\n
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\nPatent Analysis: J.W. Davis and Levi Strauss's Fastening Pocket Openings\n

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\nCommonplace today, the zipper and button construction of blue jeans was a major innovation. Using the patent for the J.W. Davis and Levi Strauss innovation, individuals comb an image of the fly for clues. Afterward, they discuss its...\n
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\nThe California Gold Rush Cartoon 1849 (The Wild West)\n

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\nThere's gold in them thar hills! A short cartoon introduces middle schoolers to the California Gold Rush of 1849. The video encourages viewers to dig deeper and mine for a lode of information about gold mining, the 49ers, and the...\n
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\nMatthew Henson\n

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\nDiscuss the work of Matthew Henson, an African American who traveled to the North Pole with Robert Peary. After reading the story \"Matthew Henson\" by Maryann N. Weidt, learners answer questions by drawing inferences and conclusions,...\n
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\nAn Introduction to Claude Levi-Strauss’s Structural Anthropology\n

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\nClaude Levi-Strauss’s Structural Anthropology contends that distance and details separate world cultures—and not much else. High schoolers watch a short explanatory video to learn more about the theory of structuralism, the...\n
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\nGeometric Abstraction\n

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\nStudents create an abstract work of art that is made by repeating geometric shapes and lines, write concise instructions to reproduce the work of art and reproduce someone else's artwork via written instructions.\n
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\nInnovative Inventions\n

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\nHelp your scholars get a grasp on the chronology of the Industrial Revolution with this \"Innovative Inventions\" activity. They discover what year various items were invented, and then create a timeline placing each invention and...\n
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\nHunt the Fact Monster Hunt #23\n

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\nIn this internet research learning exercise, students answer three multiple choice and seven short answer questions by using the Fact Monster search engine.\n
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\nMLA Documentation Exercises\n

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\nHas your school adopted the MLA style for documentation? If so, use this worksheet to assess whether or not your class members know the rules. Young researchers complete of series of documentation exercises using the MLA format. They...\n
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\nInventor's Challenge Review\n

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\nIn this science worksheet, students match each invention or device to its inventor listed on the right. There are 32 inventors listed and some may be used twice. Then they order the items in each group from oldest to newest and state the...\n
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\nPassive Voice Exercises\n

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\nFor this passive voice online worksheet, students identify if each of 5 sentences is in the active or passive voice. They rewrite 5 sentences in the active voice and 5 more in the passive voice. They write the correct passive forms in...\n
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\nInfluential Individuals of the 19th Century\n

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\nBy learning about some of the people who shaped the 19th Century, students can find out about this important time period.\n
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\nThose Golden Jeans - Demand Schedule\n

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\nStudents build a demand schedule, and analyze a supply schedule for slices of cheese pizza, and then determine the market clearing price. They analyze the market if prices are set above or below the market clearing price.\n
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\nFantastic Facts\n

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\nFourth graders are introduced to expository texts. They dwell to formulate the comprehension and gain the main ideas. Students encounter explicit comprehension strategies to help them transition into this new type of text.\n
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\nInventor's Challenge\n

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\nIn this science learning exercise, students use reference materials to complete the information for each inventor, including invention created and their nationality. They also construct a time line to illustrate the development of...\n
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\nGold Rush\n

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\nIn this gold rush worksheet, students utilize a word bank of 10 terms or phrases to answer 10 fill in the blank questions about the nation during the time period. A short answer question is included as well.\n
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\nPbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Levi Strauss\n

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\nOne-page profile of influential innovator, Levi Strauss, whose vision and ideas created the blue jeans empire which later became a social phenomenon.\n
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\nDucksters: Biography for Kids: Levi Strauss\n

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\nInvestigate the biography of entrepreneur Levi Strauss including his early life, starting a business in San Francisco, making blue jeans, and fun facts on this site.\n
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\nFamous Scientists: Claude Levi Strauss\n

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\nLearn about the French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.\n
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\nClip Art by Phillip Martin: Levi Strauss\n

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\nA clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled \"Levi Strauss.\"\n
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\nPbs: New Perspectives on the West\n

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\nThis in-depth resource presents a history of the American West from pre-Columbian times until World War I with profiles, documents, and images. It encourages visitors to link these into patterns of historical meaning for themselves....\n
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\nAcademie Francaise\n

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\nThe official site of the Academie Francaise. Provides information on its role, its history, its members (called \"les immortels\"), its influence on the French language, and its dictionaries (actual limited online access).\n
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\nGerman Culture: Famous Germans\n

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\nBrief biographical profiles of famous Germans recognized worldwide in the arts, military, movies, politics, sciences, and sports.\n
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\nPbs: American Experience: Forgotten Inventors\n

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\nHere is an accounting of a few inventions, most of which were invented in the 1800s, that often are overlooked. Find out about how the can opener was invented as well as that clothing staple, the denim jeans.\n
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