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Who Has Hair?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore similarities and differences. In this Teaching Tolerance lesson, students read literature and participate in activities that features mammals and their hair. Students learn that they share things in common while we are...
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Christmas Around the World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students 'travel' around the world gathering Christmas traditions. In this Christmas tradition lesson students sing songs, listen to stories and legends, and make crafts associated with different Christmas traditions around the world....
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Divination Bag: Yoruba, Nigeria

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners create divination bags. In this visual arts lesson, students study the beliefs of the Yoruba people of Africa. Learners design and create divination bags in the style of the Yoruba people.
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Indians in Georgia: How Do We Know What We Know?

For Teachers K - 12th
Students discover archaeology by investigating the history of Native Americans in Georgia.  In this U.S. history lesson, students participate in a mock archaeological excavation in their classroom by recovering artifacts and drawings...
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Native Lands: Indians in Georgia, How Do We Know What We Know?

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students examine Native American oral traditions. In this Georgia history instructional activity, students discuss Native American oral traditions and research stories of migration. Students create their own oral history projects that...
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Chief Pontiac's Speech

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this primary source research worksheet, students examine th text of speech given by Chief Pontiac and respond to 4 short answer questions regarding its content.
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Examples of Justice Systems and Practices in Western Africa

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore African belief systems. In this West African lesson plan, 10th graders research these belief systems. Students create a wooden figure that represents these beliefs.  
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Birdseed Mining Activity

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners investigate how small amounts of minerals or metals are mined out of very large masses of rock using birdseed. They study the economics of valuable commodities. They look at environmentally conscious mining and how reclamation...
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Wappo Indians: Clothing and Jewelry

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research the clothing and jewelry of the Wappo tribe. They discover their use of natural resources for their needs. They trace the indians' trek to the coast for materials and make necklaces from strands of grass.
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Wappo Indian Baskets

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research the basket-making skills of the Wappo tribe and their other uses of plants. They compare Wappo designs and plant use with those of other tribes. They explore their neighborhoods for plants to make baskets.
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Drumming from the Heart

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students complete a craft activity using recyclable containers and read a story to a younger child. In this service lesson plan, students read the story 'The Drum' and do a service project retelling the story and making a drum from...
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What Shape Is Money? Money Doesn't Have to Be Round or Rectangular

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain that many kinds of objects have been used as money. After identifying qualities that make a good currency, they design a nontraditional currency and decide on its value.
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Coffee Can Drum

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create and decorate a drum made from a coffee can.
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Arctic Mask Design

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students assess the connection between animals and Arctic people. They design and create masks that reflect this relationship. They hold an art show to display their masks.
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Wappo Tools

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the materials used by the Wappo tribe used to make tools. They compare and contrast the different types of arrowheads and their uses. With adult supervision, they make arrowheads from obsidian.
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Water Trash

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine how plastic waste affects the marine environment. They describe techniques that reduce plastic waste in this environment after examining plastic waste that accumulates in their own homes.
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Nasco Color Sculpt Mask Making

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study the various masks made in African, Japanese, and Ancient Egyptian cultures and discuss the funtion of these masks in each society. They create a mask from one of these cultures using a molding technique.
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How To Make a Rainstick

For Teachers K - 5th
Students research the uses of rainsticks in ancient native cultures. The teacher discusses the ceremonies rainsticks were traditionally used in. The students then construct their own rainstick.
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Ohlone Indians

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use various pictures to identify the economic activities, food supply or religious beliefs of the Ohlone Indians. Students create a cooperative learning travel brochure.
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Buying Without Money

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students describe life in the Virginia colony. They explain how money, barter, and credit were used. Students simulate trading items among classmates. Students compare/contrast credit and trade.
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TRADERS' GAME

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers play a game aimed at demonstrating how relationships with other communities or countries affect the food and fiber system. The game simulates the unequal distribution of natural resources which creates the need for...
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Moses

For Teachers 1st
First graders become acquainted with the concept of honesty. A lecture is presented to the students detailing Moses' life and his involvement in presented the Ten Commandments to the people. After the lecture is completed, 1st graders...

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