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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: The Gilded Age

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding historical questions. The Gilded Age unit highlights the turbulent changes that characterized the end of the nineteenth century.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hidden in Plain Sight

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Steganography is the science and art of hiding messages in plain sight so only the sender and intended recipient know the existence of a message. Steganography can be characterized as security through obscurity. Through this lesson,...
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US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Introduction to Soils

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit teaches students how soils develop and provides links between soils, climate, vegetation, and geology. It includes a field exercise where students can sample and characterize their local soil and relate different soil processes...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Supernatural Elements in Macbeth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this self-paced lesson, students explore how Shakespeare uses supernatural elements in Macbeth. It begins with an exploration of beliefs about the supernatural and witchcraft in Shakespeare's time as presented in a segment from...
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Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Color Changing Milk

For Students K - 1st
Students observe a molecular dance of bursting colors through exploring states of matter and learning that materials can be characterize by how they respond to water.
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Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Tie Dye Paper

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners characterize materials by their state of matter and then combined materials to create a piece of colorful, tie dye-esque paper.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Shakespeare's Universalism [Pdf]

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
In this lesson, students explore how Shakespeare was able to write in a way that his characters seemed to express real emotions and will look at the literary devices he used. An extension activity has them analyze what William Hazlitt...
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Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

The Trumpet Club: The Birchbark House

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Come and check out this informative site featuring the book "Birchbark House," by Louise Erdrich. This site provides a plot summary, discussion of settings and characterizations, and a class project idea.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Faulkner's Sound and the Fury:narrating Compson Family Decline

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this curriculum unit, students will consider William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab....
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Mystery Mollusc

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students become marine biologists, and their goal is to characterize the biological communities that live on or near the seamount in the Monterey Bay area. There, they must identify a mystery mollusk.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Surf's Up!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson introduces the concepts of longitudinal and transverse waves. Learners see several demonstrations of waves and characterize them by transverse and longitudinal behavior. This lesson also introduces the Sunken Treasure theme...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N Rn Sums of Rational and Irrational Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The goal of this task is to examine sums and products of rational and irrational numbers. One important property of rational numbers is that their decimals always terminate or repeat: using a slightly different formulation, a rational...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe Defining Parabolas Geometrically

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this task is to show that the points on a parabola can be characterized by being equidistant from a point (the focus) and a line (the directrix). Aligns with HSG-GPE.A.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Us Population 1790 1860

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students are shown a table of U.S. population data between 1790 and 1860 and are asked to explore whether exponential functions would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. The purpose of the task is to help...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Jason and the Golden Fleece

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore characterization, plot and setting and compare these elements in mythology and modern works of literature, film and television. Retell myths in modern settings or modern-day stories using a mythological Greek setting. While this...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 4.g Defining Attributes of Rectangles & Parallelograms

For Teachers 4th
At early stages of understanding of geometric shapes, 4th graders describe shapes, but do not yet characterize shapes by their properties. One example of a misconception students have at this stage is that a rectangle has two short sides...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 12: Canterbury Tales

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Young scholars learn how the stereotypes and characterization of Chaucer's pilgrims reflect his views of religious corruption and social boundaries in the medieval period. They will consider how the themes reflected in the general...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: A Look at Judith Leyster

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students will identify clues and adjectives to describe Judith Leyster's personality and then develop and refine her characterizations through poetry writing. Using Leyster's monogram as their inspiration, they will then shift the focus...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: A Death in the Family

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Created in association with the Masterpiece Theatre film version of "A Death in the Family," this teacher's guide provides materials for the study of the film or the book. Students will study the life and work of James Agee, determine...
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Other

Steilacoom Historical School District No. 1: Dramatic Justice [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity unit, young scholars investigate how justice is perceived and addressed in different cultures and times by examining literature from around the world. Texts examined include: The Tragedy of Romeo and...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Who's at the Door? Use Images to Find Out!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Students will use words acquired through reading to describe images (with adjectives) that demonstrate an understanding of characters in a story. The teacher will read Miss Nelson is Back which has great descriptors and will hold a class...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Novel Reflections on the American Dream

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of five videos of Novel Reflections on the American Dream including Fitzgerald's Gatsby, Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath," Ann Petry's "The Street," and Gish Jen's "Traditional American."
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British Library

British Library: Wilde's the Importance of Being Earnest: A Close Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson, students will consider several aspects of Oscar Wilde's most popular of comedies, "The Importance of Being Earnest". The success of this play is in part due to its examination of moral principles - in this case, the...
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British Library

British Library: Bronte's Jane Eyre: The Figure of Bertha Mason

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will encourage students to explore the character of Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester's first wife, through the lens of medical history. They will compare Charlotte Bronte's presentation of the character with the perspectives...

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