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Teaching Tolerance

My Voice, My Voter's Guide

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Class members may be too young to vote, but that doesn't mean their voices are silent! After researching key information, such as policies for registering to what to expect at the polls, young scholars create and present election guides...
Unit Plan
University of Oklahoma

Understanding My Individualized Education Program

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The final unit the series helps learners become familiar with the major components and vocabulary in their IEPs. Using a KWL chart, class members record information about their IEPs and set goals for themselves.
Lesson Plan
Learning to Give

Deliver Gratitude Day

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Gratitude is the focus of a discussion that sets the stage for pupils to take part in a service-learning project in which they deliver notes of kindness by way of social media or mail. A reflection closes the learning experience.
Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights Movement

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s marched to its own beat—literally. Using songs from the era, as well as other primary sources such as King's "I Have a Dream" speech, class members analyze lyrics to discover how music and protest...
Interactive
DocsTeach

Election of 1800

For Teachers 5th - 8th
The 2020 election is not the only unpredictable one in history. The Election of 1800 highlighted an unforeseen event in a presidential election. The activity reviews documents from the elections and what happened when the electoral...
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American Chemical Society

Dissolving M-and-Ms

For Students K - 5th
Learning ... how sweet it is! A hands-on lesson uses colored candies to demonstrate how positive and negative charges interact. Pupils use different types of liquids and watch as the color from the candies spreads—or doesn't. 
Lesson Plan
Center for History Education

The Non-Importation Movement

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Boycott for free trade! An eye-opening activity explores the non-importation movement created by American colonists in response to the Stamp and Sugar Acts. Scholars specifically look at the impact the boycott had on colonial women who...
Worksheet
Teachers Pay Teachers

What Kind of Smart Are You

For Teachers K - 5th
Gain insight into the type of learners that fill your classroom. An eight-question survey asks scholars questions about themselves. Using their color-coded answers, they conclude their degree of intelligence in multiple areas—music,...
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Lions Clubs International Foundation

Mindful Self-Management Exercise: Pausing the Action

For Parents 3rd - 5th
A self-management exercise allows scholars to mindfully pause the action by identifying emotions and changing their thought processes. When pupils feel strongly about something, they imagine themselves as a remote they can pause to...
Lesson Plan
Anti-Defamation League

The Gender Allowance Gap

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Does the pay gap begin with allowance? That is the big question scholars answer in a lesson examining how gender affects how much money an individual earns. Class members conduct a survey to identify how the allowance is paid, take their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Links to the Missing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars investigate the information required to identified missing persons, then create a personal 'database' of information on themselves and their community.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Getting to Know Your Textbook

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use the glossary, index, and headings to location information in their textbooks. For this textbooks lesson plan, 8th graders complete discussion questions about the information they can learn from textbook features.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pigs: A Visual Splendor

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice using visualization to aid in their reading comprehension. After a reading a chapter from the book "Charlotte's Web," students write a brief summary of the plot using their visualizations, aided by reading...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Read and Retain

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice strategies for aiding in their comprehension of material they read. Through guided practice, they read a selected piece of text and answer questions pertaining to what they have read. They practice looking back in...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Boy Scout Merit Badge: Lifesaving

For Students 8th
In this boy scout merit badge:  lifesaving worksheet, 8th graders research the topic using the websites listed, answer 15 detailed questions about rescues, water safety, lifesaving aids and equipment, first aid, plus demonstrate...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Every Teenager's Choice

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students focus on developing emotional maturity that aid them in making intelligent and appropriate decisions regarding their own sexual behavior.
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Curated OER

The House That Drac Built Haunted Houses

For Teachers K
Students build a haunted house out of a paper bag, and decorate it with shapes cut out of construction paper. They attach their address to the bag to aid in memorizing this important information.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Map Your Area

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils map the geographic boundaries of a recycling program's service areas and include the location of buyers important to the program. They use this map as an aid in managing a school recycling program or project.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Does Cell Size And Shape Affect Transport of Materials

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore concepts of surface area, volume, and ratios, create spreadsheets to aid organization of data collected and provide graphing capabilities, and use NIH Imaging to enable calculations of microscopic organisms.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Group Research and Reports on STDs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and list diseases that people can contract through sexual activity. They conduct Internet research on a chosen STD, write a one-page report, and create a visual aide to present to the class.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exploring the Illinois and Michigan Canal

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders locate the Illinois & Michigan Canal and related landmarks on various maps. They explain the challenges associated with building a canal. They access websites imbedded in this plan and watch a video to aid their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Early Travel Routes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore explorers in the Pacific Northwest by examining primary source documents. After the research is finished students write a journal as if they were one of the explorers. Visual aids are needed as well.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Opera on the Net

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create an Opera-on-the-Net with other students in Sweden. They use technology to aid them in making decisions in every area of creating the opera: music, make-up, set design, etc.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

THOSE ANCIENT GREEKS

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research Athens and Sparta and based on their research they are to make a visual aid showing their findings.

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