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The Changing Landscape
Young scholars explore how the landscape is constantly changing. In this landscape lesson, students identify a building under construction on the Landscape Picture Map. Young scholars discuss the purpose of the construction and the...
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What do you know about your town?
Young scholars create a PowerPoint about the community they live in now and long ago. In this community lesson plan, students fill out graphic organizers about town events that have happened and create timelines as well.
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Reading the Biography
Students explore the lives of famous Americans. In this biography lesson plan, students read biographies about famous Americans and keep reading journals as they read about setting, main events, and character sketches.
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Classroom Guide for Coming to America
Students discuss the pre-reading focus questions. In this reading lesson, students discuss and explore the book cover and title. Students predict what they will learn from this book. Additionally, students read to find out what life is...
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City's 50th Anniversary: A Snap Shot in Time
Young scholars watch a video on the history of the city they live in. Individually, they take pictures of their community and identify the reasoning behind the picture. To end the lesson, they vote on their classmates photographs to be...
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Amazing Aztecs
Pupils embark on a web quest in order to discover the mysteries of the Aztec civilization. In this ancient civilization lesson, students visit the provided seven websites in order to fill in each incomplete paragraph with the appropriate...
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Japanese Abstract Wind Sock
Students create Abstract Wind Socks using brown paper bags, markers, kite string, and basic art supplies in this Art lesson for the elementary classroom. Abstract concepts are emphasized and it is recommended to only use primary colors.
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Introduction to Primary Sources
Students explore the usage of primary sources, what they are and how they originate. Artifacts are compared and contrasted as part of this historical inquiry as questions are formulated and conclusions drawn.
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Tree Cookies
Young scholars identify heartwood, sapwood, and a tree's annual rings, infer from a tree's rings what damage or stress might have occurred in its life, and make a time-line of human history that coincides with a tree's rings.
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Reading Primary Source Documents: Historical Content
Why do we read primary source documents? What can they give us that other writings cannot? Provide your learners with any of the primary sources attached here (there are seven), and have them complete the graphic organizer (which opens...
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Family and Household Structure
Students examine what the word "family" means today. They identify cultural traditions that are still popular in the United States. They read primary source documents and discover how advice is passed on from generation to generation.
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Becoming a Member of an 1830s Family
Students compare and constrast life in an 1830s family verses a modern family. They role play the position of a family member in 1830 while wearing traditional clothing for the time period. They write journal entries to show their daily...
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Art of Japan - Textiles - Kimonos
Students examine and discuss the role of the Kimono in Japanese culture. They create Kimono Paper Weavings, Kimono Scratch Art, and Kimono Clay Sculptures.
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Putting the World in Perspective
Young scholars work in small groups to: make a mental map of the world by tearing paper shapes of the seven continents and locating them on a flat surface in their relative positions, compare their finished mental map to a reference...
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Westward Expansion of the United States
How did early American pioneers decide what to take with them on their journeys, and what was their traveling experience like? Here you'll find a collection of activities to help you explore Westward Expansion with your young learners.
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Celebrate Library Card Sign-Up Month
Motivate your class to acquire and utilize a library card all year long.
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Read All About It! California History of the 30s and 40s
Explore the Great Depression! Discover the challenges people experienced during the time period. Learners investigate photographs from the Dust Bowl and WWII era and create a story line about the photographs, writing a newspaper article...
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More Reasons to Love Valentine's Day
Heart-themed curriculum connections that your class will fall in love with.
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Create Your Own Florida Murals
Young scholars study a mural that represents life in Florida. They choose one portion of the mural and redraw it showing what the character in that portion would be doing next. (Is the person headed to the beach? Where the bird fly next?...
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Classroom Rules
Students participate in selection of language needed to form rules for the classroom. They explore the categories of: things you have to do, things you can't do and things you can do if you like. Then they break into groups and create...
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Women's Suffrage
Young scholars investigate the changes of attitudes about Women's suffrage over the passage of time. They read a background on the fight for women's suffrage and its eventual success in the United States and also around the world.
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Base It
Third graders complete place value charts in the decimal system, the binary and Hexadecimal system. They discuss the contributions made by Ada Lovelace to computer language. They express the idea of place value with exponents.
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Paper Mola - Reverse appplique
Students investigate mola artwork from Panama. They discover the choices necessary to create a successful piece. Students understand the color and shape choices necessary for this art form.
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Cinco de Mayo
Students investigate the Cinco de Mayo holiday. They discuss the history of Cinco de Mayo, listen to the Legend of the Mexican flag, color a worksheet of the Mexican flag, and create a class coat of arms.
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