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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Getting to Know You

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The students will go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find. By...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Friendly Faces

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about adult helpers in our community including: a police officer, a doctor, a firefighter, a teacher, and a construction worker. A question sheet is available to help students...
Unit Plan
Internal Revenue Service

Irs: Payroll Taxes and Federal Income Tax Withholding

For Students 9th - 10th
Payroll taxes include the Social Security tax and the Medicare tax. Social Security taxes provide benefits for retired workers, the disabled, and the dependents of both. The Medicare tax is used to provide medical benefits for certain...
Website
Other

Cesar E. Chavez, an American Hero

For Students 9th - 10th
The official site for the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation provides information on the life and ideals of Chavez and the activities of the Foundation.
Website
Other

Ufw: Dolores Huerta

For Students 9th - 10th
A lengthy and detailed biography of Dolores Huerta who has spent her life championing the rights of farmworkers.
Website
PBS

Pbs: Boulder City

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion page to the documentary on the Boulder City, a planned city in the middle of the desert.
Interactive
Other

Biz Kids: Break the Bank

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive game, you are a worker at a community bank, helping customers get good loans and save for their future. However, the terrible Mr. Boar and his clerks from a payday loan company have infiltrated your bank! Rally the...
Handout
Other

Indian Americans Top Census Chart Among Asian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Short article discusses the census findings for the Indian-Americans. "One obvious factor for the growth in the Indian-American community is the importing of hi-tech workers."
Website
PBS

The Sixth Section

For Students 9th - 10th
Site is a companion piece to a PBS special on a group of Mexican immigrants who live and work in America but send their money back home to Mexico.
Handout
Stephen Byrne

History for Kids: Cesar Chavez

For Students 3rd - 8th
A biography featuring the nonviolent Cesar Chavez. With his passion for equal rights for minorities, he established more than one national organization to draw awareness to his purpose.
Graphic
Curated OER

Unesco: United Kingdom: New Lanark

For Students 9th - 10th
New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings,...
Graphic
Curated OER

Unesco: United Kingdom: Blaenavon Industrial Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
The area around Blaenavon is evidence of the pre-eminence of South Wales as the world's major producer of iron and coal in the 19th century. All the necessary elements can still be seen - coal and ore mines, quarries, a primitive railway...

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