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National Park Service: Savannah, Ga: Lasting Legacy of Colonial City Planning
The site explores the colonial history of the city of Savannah, Georgia. This interactive instructional activity has excellent information, an inquiry question, historical context, maps, readings, images, and activities.
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Planning.org: Kids and Community
Use this site to explore how you create communities, how you live in them, and how you change them. This site also has information on the career of city planning, and activities on city planning.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineers Speak for the Trees
Students begin by reading Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" as an example of how overdevelopment can cause long-lasting environmental destruction. Students discuss how to balance the needs of the environment with the needs of human industry....
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Plane Math: Activities: Flight Path
Students work in groups to find the shortest path between two cities. The activity explores problem solving, number relationships, estimation, and measurement. The resource consists of a lesson plan, group activity instructions, lesson...
Able Media
Ablemedia: Unearthing the Lost City of a Burbe Suburbe
This site is provided for by Ablemedia. Unique simulation activity where students "Discover," an ancient city and complete tasks to compile a history of the city and finally create a 3-D model of the city. Could be adapted for many...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Learning Sustainability With Sim City
Helps educators develop SimCity-based lesson plans that will encourage students to think critically about the challenges facing modern cities. SimCity is a city-building simulation computer game where players become the mayor and design...
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Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Cities and Towns in Texas [Pdf]
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this instructional activity, they investigate changes in population for different Texas...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tour Through New York State Lesson Plan
This instructional activity is a cool and hip way to tour across New York State. The teacher takes young scholars on a virtual tour of NYS while using music and movement.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: The City (La Ciudad): Listening: Dialogs
Wonderful, extensive site for Spanish-speaking ELL. In this section, students listen to a couple of short audio clip dialogs in English and then answer interactive comprehension questions. Several activities provided - instructions in...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: The City (La Ciudad): Pronunciation/sonidos
Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition - contrasts sounds as in "cap/cup, ran/run." Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's...
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Lesson Title: Active Citizenship [Pdf]
The City of Saskatoon offers a lesson plan to give students opportunities to be active citizens politically and socially.
BBC
Bbc: Primary History: Ancient Greece
Resource for primary students and teachers studying Ancient Greece. Students navigate through animated multi-media and interactive features to play games, watch videos, view photos and read all about Ancient Greece. Teachers can find...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Plain City
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Plain City" by Virginia Hamilton. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Real World Investigation: Elevation Changes [Pdf]
Math and geography are the focus of this internet investigation. Learners must plan a road trip to several cities and plot the elevations of those cities using a line graph. Acrobat Reader required.
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Teachnet: Fraction City
This website offers an excellent lesson plan that teaches basic fraction concepts and includes an equivalent fraction procedure. Lots of detailed instructions on how to prepare and teach this topic.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Building Perspectives App
Students use this App to develop their spatial visualization skills. They work with front, back, right, and left views of buildings in a city block to determine the height of each building in the city plan.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Related Conditionals
A collection of resources for teachers planning instruction on related conditionals, complete with four lessons, an online practice quiz, and a suggested class activity.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Circles
Use this lesson, practice quiz, and activity when planning classroom instruction on graphs and equations of circles.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Complex Numbers
A wealth of material to help you plan classroom instruction on complex numbers: several lessons that cover the number i, square roots of negative numbers, and operations involving complex numbers; practice activities, some of which...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Circles and Angles
A wealth of material to supplement classroom instruction on circles, angles in circles, and arcs. Find lessons with formulas, diagrams, and example problems with step-by-step solutions, multiple-choice practice quizzes, and activity...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Radicals
Material to supplement classroom instruction on radicals: two lessons on radicals and rationalizing denominators with radicals; two practice activities where students can begin to test their skills with radicals; and a teacher resource...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Concurrence
Find resources for class instruction on concurrence: a lesson on concurrence of medians, altitudes, angle bisectors, and perpendicular bisectors complete with definitions and example diagrams; a six-question practice quiz; and...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Slopes and Equations of Lines
Three resources for teaching slopes and equations of lines: a lesson with a formula for finding slope, different equations for lines, and several examples; a fourteen-question quiz covering slope, perpendicular and parallel lines, and...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Algebraic Translations
Use these resources when planning instruction on algebraic translations. Offers a lesson with many examples, a practice exercise with answers, and instructions for a class activity where students translate sentences into equations.