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Celebrate Colonial Maryland
Students research colonial Maryland. In this colonial Maryland activity, students participate in a WebQuest to investigate how families led their lives long ago. Students compare family and city life from long ago and today. Students...
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Plains Indians Pictographs
Learners explore methods of written communication. For this Plains Indian lesson, students create pictographs representing everyday modern life after observing the pictographs used by the Plains Indians. Pictograph stories are written on...
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We Are Family
Second graders research their family history and how it connects them to the past. They identify their ancestors, graphically organize relatives in a family tree, and chart significant events in their lives on a timeline.
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"Families and Schools of the Past"
First graders listen to and discuss historical fiction and bigraphies from the early American time period. They role-play, draw, write stories and dress up to re-create events from these historical characters.
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?
Students study dinosaurs by completing two activities and group discussion. In this dinosaur lesson, students discuss dinosaurs and extinction as a class. Students make dinosaur dioramas, a hatchable dinosaur egg after watching a video...