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Transcription of the Virginia Declaration
In this teaching primary resources worksheet, students read a transcription of the Virgina Declaration . Students read the excerpt and discuss its significance.
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No Taxation Without Representation
Students consider colonial rights. For this Bill of Rights lesson, students complete an activity guide that requires students to analyze taxation without representation. Students respond to discussion questions pertaining to taxes...
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Gandhi's Salt March, A Simulation
High schoolers examine Gandhi's Salt March. In this peace and tolerance lesson plan, students discuss the Salt Tax Levy that was imposed in India. High schoolers then debate how the Indian National Congress should have handled the issue.
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Merchants and Craft Guilds
Students compare and contrast the craft guilds of the middle ages to the production of goods today. In this Middle Ages lesson, students discuss the structure of craft guilds after they have read articles on the topic. Students conduct...
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The End of Shopping as We Know It
Students explore trends in consumerism. In this current events lesson, students examine e-commerce as they browse selected websites to learn more about the phenomenon.
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The Haitian Crisis: Thinking Historically
Students analyze the 2010 earthquake's effects on Haiti. In this Economics activity, students brainstorm the problems caused in Haiti by the earthquake. Students listen to interviews with scholars to identify additional answers to focus...
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Exploring Religious Violence and Persecution in 16th Century Europe
Learners watch a movie on religious violence in 16th century Europe and then write a background about a picture they are given on violence. In this religious violence lesson plan, students create the background by making inferences about...
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Change: Just a Matter of Time
Young scholars analyze the Declaration of Independence and primary sources to explain civil rights. Then, students write a Declaration of Change to express the grievances of African Americans, and their desire to participate fully in the...
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Students use events of the time to illustrate the significance of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March.
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Differences in Location Lesson Plan: Treatment of Early African Americans
Students reach The Domestic Slave Trade, then examine the differences between the people enslaved in North America as opposed to those in Brazil.
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Forest Joe Lesson Plan: Outlaw or Hero?
Pupils become familiar with an American legend that is unfamiliar to many. Presented with the legend of Forest Joe, a runaway slave who, much like Robin Hood, stole from the rich to give to the poor, students draw comparisons and...
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Mixing Races in New Orleans
Learners discuss the changes in the legal, social, and political status of African Americans and those of mixed ethnicity after reading the narrative, Haitian Immigration: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
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A Comparative Look at Migrations
Young scholars explore and compare and contrast the migrations of African Americans in the United States in the decades before and after the Civil War.
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Note Study of the Giver
Students, after reading The Giver, create a PowerPoint presentation, a Web page, and a newsletter or brochure demonstrating their understanding of the novel?
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What's Next for China and the US?
Tenth graders assist President Bush in researching and writing a 2-page report on China, including any economic and political changes that have significantly affected the country within the last 50 years.
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Confict, Consensus, and Conclusion
Students debate the key issues dealing with women's rights and the rights of African Americans during and after the Civil War. They analyze the women's rights movement in relationship to the desire for suffrage. They utilize the...
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Analyzing Japanese Imperialism
Students engage in a lesson in order to compare and contrast the Imperialism of Japan to that of the United States and Europe. Students can complete a variety of activities that include research questions, reflection from lecture, and...
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Communicating with the World
Students practice their communication skills with people from other cultures. Using predetermined questions, they email their penpal and wait for their responses. They reflect on the value of the information given to them and complete an...
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From Forest to Farm and Back Again
Pupils review and discuss a given set of questions regarding ecosystems. They analyze essays, maps and historical documents on timber harvesting and regeneration and then complete worksheets.
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Knife River: Early Village Life on the Plains
Students discover the complex culture and trading economy of the Hidatsa and Mandan tribes in North Dakota during the 18th century, as seen by anthropologists and artists.
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Susan B. Anthony: Rebel for the Cause
Young scholars explore the suffragist, Susan B. Anthony, documents her life and era with photographs, illustrations, and interviews. It demonstates how this feminist leader simultaneously influenced events and was shaped by external forces.
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The Secret Life of Money Part 2
Students explore how people use money every day and how it is one of the defining resources in our life.
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Making Sense of a Round World on a Flat Surface
Learners explain the world in spatial terms
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Who Invented It? When? Chinese Inventions: An Introductory Activity
Students use Robert Temple's "The Genius of Chins: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention", to understand how much the Chinese have contributed with their scientific and technological ability.
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