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Using Computers to Find Information
Students demonstrate how to copy and paste an internet document into a word processing file and save it on a computer hard drive, and define key vocabulary words. They complete a copy and paste activity, and participate in a computer...
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Dealing With Taxes
Students study counting and non-counting vocabulary, change singular to plural nouns, and determine the importance of completing tax returns. They use flashcards and vocabulary drill sheets. They watch a video.
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Dependents and Tax Credits
Students identify "count" and "non-count" nouns, and examine and discuss the Earned Income Tax Credit. They define key vocabulary words, complete various worksheets, read a newspaper article, and answer discussion questions.
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Socializing at Work
Students practice social conversation using adjectives and phrases describing good and bad weather. They review the present perfect continuous, present continuous, past continuous and future continuous tenses.
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Colonial North Carolina
Students resarch people and events from a given list. Then based on teacher options, students employ perspectives, an audience, a presentation format, and topic to prepare a two-page document to share with the class. Students also...
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What is Meant by Returning to Fundamental Principles?
Students explain in what ways the American experience in self-government can be called an adventure in ideas. They evaluate positions on a number of issues related to the fundamental principles and values of government and individual...
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We the People... How Does Government Secure Natural Rights?
High schoolers investigate the Founders' ideas about what kind of government is most likely to protect the basic rights of people. They distinguish between limited and unlimited government.
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Why Do We Need Authority?
Students examine the problems created by a lack of effective authority described in Mark Twain's Roughing It. They explain how we use authority to protect our rights, to provide order and security, and to manage conflict.
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How Can Citizens Participate?
Students are introduced to the notion of citizen participation. They analyze their own participation in the last school election, then read and discuss the definition of the term citizen.
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POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT: THE CASE OF LATVIA
Students compare the powers of a U.S. president to those of leaders of other countries. They pretend they are presidential advisors and make decisions as a group as to what the president has the right do in different situations.
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On the Job Prepositions #1
Students correctly use prepositions of time and place in verbal and written form. They copy and paste a preposition reference sheet from the Internet to a word processing file, save the file and print it.
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Workplace Dialogue
Students identify five slang words that they use everyday. They complete a worksheet about dialogue at work and answer questions. They role-play one of the scenerios with another student.
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Apartment Hunting
Learners use apartment classified ads to match abbreviations with their correct term. They practice using superlatives and comparatives when looking at apartments. They complete a worksheet to end the lesson.
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Completing a Confidential Health Intake Form
Students practice using new vocabulary related to their health. They complete a sample health intake form with few errors. They complete a worksheet to end the lesson.
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Practicial Healthcare: Vocabulary, Verbs and Frequency Adverbs
High schoolers use correct vocabulary to identify parts of the human body. They practice using adverbs in healthcare related sentences. They put the correct tense of verbs into sentences as well.
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Subjects, Objects, and Gerunds
Students identify gerunds in written and spoken form. They analyze sentences for subjects, verbs, and objects. They complete a Gerund Practice worksheet independently, exchange papers and correct. They work in pairs to complete other...
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Gerunds, Infinitives, and Emergencies
Pupils identify gerunds and infinitives in emergency-related scenarios. They replace gerunds with infinitives in written and spoken exercises. They create and perform an emergency dialogue using gerunds and infinitives.
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Elections in America
Eleventh graders examine the election process in America. In this US Government lesson plan, 11th graders analyze the problems with the Electoral College. Students research a specific state and create a state flash card in...
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Stamp Act: Virtual Representation vs. Actual Representation
Eleventh graders research and discuss the different points of view of colonists in terms of taxation, as well as how these viewpoints helped lead to the revolution.
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A Deliberate, Palpable and Dangerous Exercise of Other Powers: James Madison & Homeland Security
This resource uses primary source documents to explore the First Amendment. After reviewing key events of the 1790s, government or US history classes explore Madison's letter to Jefferson regarding the Alien and Sedition Acts. They then...
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Learning from the Past: A New Approach
Young scholars research nonprofit organizations. As they research, they learn how those living in the colonial period formed community organizations to provide for the common good of their society. Each pupil chooses one organization to...
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Using Primary Sources: Letters from the Presidents
Students find out about the minds and thoughts of presidents through reading their actual letters. They explore the personal lives of presidents. They answer questions about a primary source. They write essays.
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Anza's Historical Journals
Students review the journal of Juan Bautista de Anza. They reflect on his first exploratory expedition into present-day California.
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Design a State Seal
Fourth graders examine the meanings of symbols on the Ohio state Seal. They create their own personal seals which include three items about themselves. They write explanations about their seals.
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