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The President's Roles and Responsibilities: Understanding the President's Job
Students examine the roles and responsibilites of the president of the U.S. They identify and discuss the three branches of U.S. government, view and discuss a White House Photo essay online, and create a class book entitled, 'If I Were...
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Images at War
High schoolers examine American attitudes toward war as revealed in Civil War photographs and WWII homefront posters. They analyze and discuss photos, explore the National Archives website, and organize a statement of their findings.
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Fresh Water and land of Kiribati and Hawaii (Molokai)
Fourth graders examine the islands of Hawaii. Using this information, they organize it and create a map or graph that represents the data. As a class, they discuss how the watersheds on the islands are different and how people react to...
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Racial Violence in America: Lynchings, 1877 to 1920
Young scholars analyze racial violence in America. Students listen to interviews with survivors of racial violence. They discuss the reasons behind the violence. Young scholars explore the African-American community's response to racial...
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The Learning Network: The First Middle School Chess Champs
Introduce some nonfiction reading into your classroom! This resource contains seven comprehension questions pertaining to an article from The New York Times website about the first middle schoolers to ever win the United States Chess...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies
Readers are first introduced to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by making a map of Africa. They will better understand the novel's historical and literary contexts, European and African literary traditions, and how...
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Civil War Tribune
Fifth graders choose a black and white copy of a photo from the Civil War and 'enhance' picture by adding color using crayons and colored pencils. They research the photo.
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Geography of the Wasatch Front
Pupils identify the three main types of urban environments by learning characteristic land-cover types. They examine and analyze a thermal image of Salt Lake City. Then they predict surface and air temperatures from aerial photos.
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Traveling Around Nebraska
Students analyze a current or historical photograph from their textbook and as a class complete a worksheet of the analysis. Using the Photographic Analysis Form, they locate and analyze two transportation photographs and use the...
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Enhancing Positive Feelings
Student analyzes a picture of a family member and writes a positive description about each individual. They cut the picture into puzzle shapes and talk about the good parts that make up the individuals as you put the picture back together.
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Boston Massacre Comparison
Eighth graders become familiar with the events of the Boston massacre and analyze the events. In this artistic images instructional activity, 8th graders discuss examine pictures and discuss the viewpoint of the...
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America at War
Sixth graders examine issues that faced Americans during World War I, discuss role that sinking of the Lusitania had in America's decision to enter the war, and analyze changing role of U.S. during the war and how it emerged as a world...
Library of Congress
Suffragists and Their Tactics
Learners research the fight for voting rights. In this women's history lesson, students analyze primary sources to develop an understanding of the strategies employed by the suffragists to gain voting rights.
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Early Industrialization
Eighth graders analyze primary source documents emphasizing young people in factory labor (mill workers during 1840-1860). They study hours of labor, ages of laborers, reasons for working, and working conditions. They write a poem or song.
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Letter Pronunciation- "ph" Sound
In this "ph" words worksheet, students analyze 4 words in a group that contain the letters "ph". Students circle the word that best describes the picture and then use that word in a sentence.
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Debating the Bomb
Students research how the development of the atomic bomb affected people in World War II, participate in a debate about the bomb's use, and investigate how it has affected people's lives since 1945.
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Watch the Sky: Observing Clouds and Patterns
Students observe clouds outside of the classroom. In this weather lesson plan, students investigate and record the clouds above their classroom everyday for three weeks. The students then analyze their data and discuss what causes...
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Teaching Ethical Situations
Learners use journalism ethics standards to learn how to write ethically correct news stories. In this journalism and ethics instructional activity, students review journalism standards for ethics. Learners use the standards as they...
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Fighter Pilots of World War II
Learners explore the types of airplanes that were used in World War II. For this World History lesson, students write a research paper that compares and contrasts three types of American airplanes and three types of foreign...
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Dorothea Lange and the Relocation of Japanese Americans
Learners consider the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II. In this Japanese relocation lesson, students examine photographs by Dorothea Lange, the "Pledge of Allegiance," and a US government flyer from 1942. They use...
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What Tree is That?
Young scholars examine leaves and the trees in their neighborhood that they came from. In this ecology lesson plan, students read the book, I Can Name 50 Trees Today, and discuss how a tree goes from a forest to a wood shop....
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Visual Learning: Are You Really What You Wear?
Students analyze a photograph to complete a visual learning activity. In this visual learning lesson, students analyze the photograph and follow step process to identify the facts within the picture. Students analyze the photo caption...
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Travel Club Unit
Seventh graders participate in a classroom travel club while they research Latin American cities. They research the city finding the pertinent information provided in the directions. They write a letter to other travel club members that...
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Lesson Plans for Genre Dance Around the Maypole
Students analyze the art of Pieter Brueghel and complete related art activities. In this art analysis activity, students read a biography of Pieter Brueghel and complete a photo montage activity. Students also complete an aesthetics...