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Ice Fishing is for the Birds

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Approach addition with young mathematicians in an engaging way through this penguin-inspired activity. In small groups, scholars think about times they have used addition in their real lives (there are some suggestions given), then watch...
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Fracking: Positive or Negative Impact?

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Your teenagers may have heard of fracking, but do they really know what it is? And could they debate the benefits and risks? Educate your environmental science class with a lesson about hydraulic fracturing, non-renewable energy...
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Women, Propaganda, and War

For Teachers 11th Standards
Governments rely on propaganda to build support for wars. Class members examine six propaganda posters, two each from the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II, and analyze how the way women were portrayed in the posters...
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Call to Arms: A Service Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Sick of selling candy and washing cars? How about hosting a Digital Day or a Learning Lunch? The suggestions here make fund raising fun and rewarding. Raise money to preserve important maps and other primary source documents.
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Easter Egg Eggstravaganza

For Teachers K
Students identify functions and proper use of the computer. They identify secondary colors by mixing primary colors. Students reinforce listening, speaking and following directions by playing a game. They identify the color gold.
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Report Writing in Primary Grades

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students learn how to read a short section and parepare a sentence to share with the group. Students listen to the reading of expository text, restate, in sentence format, one fact learned from that text, and produce a report.
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Studying Japanese Internment with Primary Documents

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders view photographs of the Japanese society being interned in camps during World War II in the United States. In groups, they read and discuss Executive Order 9066 and try to determine what group they are trying to focus...
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Mixing Up Magic

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the relationship between art and science through experimenting with color, design and recycled materials and creating their own art work.
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Responding: "Guerrilla" Art

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine a new kind of art that is used to respond to political and social issues. Using primary source documents, they read examples of how others have responded to various issues in the past. Individually, they create...
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Lesson on Wayne Thiebaud

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders view Theibaud's work in order to form opinions and share in class discussions. They also critique some of the artists work using the Linderman method and recreate the artist's style of work with their own paintings.
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Marbling A La Haring

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students create a paper marbling painting based on the work done by Keith Haring. In this paper marbling lesson plan, students create abstract compositions and create a small mural with one another of their interlocking shapes.
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Who Am I? (Primary Grades)

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify their names, follow directions and use listening skills to learn their classmates names in a game format.
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Mark Twain's Hannibal

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research life in Hannibal, Missouri. In this Mark Twain lesson, students analyze primary sources to develop an understanding of life in Hannibal in the late 19th century. This lesson may be used as an introduction to Twain's...
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The Minerva Mosaic of the Library of Congress

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students analyze the Minerva mosaic. In this Library of Congress lesson plan, students conduct primary source analysis of the mosaic as they interpret the symbolism and mythology featured in the mosaic.
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Piecing Together the Story of Glenn Cunningham: A Kansas Champion

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners use primary and secondary sources to conduct research about Glenn Cunningham. In this Glenn Cunningham lesson plan, students tell why he was a hero, and tell facts from what they learned.
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Research Paper on Orators

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders identify the difference between a primary and a secondary source, and use writing as a tool for learning and research. They compile information from primary and secondary sources using available technology.
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Rain Orchestra

For Teachers 1st
First graders mix secondary colors from primary colors and simulate a rainstorm by using body percussion.
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Colors of the Rainbow

For Teachers K
Students explore primary and secondary colors through the use of colors represented in the rainbow. They read and discuss the book, 'What a Wonderful World,' mix paint colors and paint rainbows, and create scratchboard paintings.
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To Be or Not to Be: A Marriage of Civil War Descendants

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine primary documents related to the burning of Chambersburg during the Civil Way. In this Civil War era history instructional activity, students study numerous primary documents relating to the burning of the town of...
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Clothing Color Wheel

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Pupils are introduced to the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Individually, they are to create a color wheel with all three levels of colors in a creative way. To end the lesson, they present their wheel to the class and discuss...
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Mixing Colors

For Teachers 1st
First graders, exploring and experimenting with the primary colors of red, yellow and blue, mix different colored icings together to create other colors formed with primary colors. The color wheel is also discussed and shown during this...
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Color Wheel Introduction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the primary and secondary colors. Using a worksheet, they follow the directions from their teacher to complete the activity. To end the lesson, they use the worksheet to create a separate color wheel.
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National Road to Indiana

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore the National Road to Indiana. In this U.S. highway history and primary source research lesson, students read an original journal written by Jane Voorhees Lewis in 1806 describing her trip west on the first federally...
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Magic Eye

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students discuss the history of tobacco bag stringing. In this primary documents history lesson, students closely examine photographs of families who worked stringing tobacco bags. This lesson includes discussion questions and a...

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