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Using Oral History to Understand Immigrant History

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use oral history to comprehend how life chaned for men, women, and childern when they immigrated to the United States. Students conduct interviews with immigrants in an attempt to interpret hardships, lifestyles, careers, and...
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Welcome Home

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore, examine and study about the war in Iraq and consider the problems and concerns faced by injured veterans coming home. They then create questions and conduct interviews with veterans in order to develop proposals for...
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Percents: What's the Use?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore percentages in real world situations. In this percents lesson, students determine the final sales price after discounts. Students interview community members and determine how percentages are used in the real world.
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How The Scientists Really Work

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students question the accepted practices of science by scientists and their interactions with technology and society. They devise and conduct appropriate interview procedures for scientists to question their understanding and...
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Hall Monitors

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners investigate the incidence of different types of violence that occurs in their schools through reading, discussion and interviews. They question local authorities about the best ways to reduce school violence.
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Inviting a Guest Checklist

For Students 6th - 8th
In this application of fieldwork basics worksheet, student determine important steps to follow before inviting a guest to school, how to conduct themselves the day their guest visits for the presentation, and follow-up work to complete...
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Living History

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate historic events through the eyes of people who were their age when the event happened. Through personal interviews, students gain insights on the impact of these events on these people's lives and on the world at large.
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Bringing Justice Home ~First Steps toward Community Action

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore activities that might some day bring "justice for all" to their communities. They assess how justice is a day-to-day, life or death matter that faces their communities. Interviews are conducted to explain how...
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Immigration Oral History

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore oral history and how it is important to historical record. They interview someone who is a U.S. immigrant and create an oral history project/paper based on this interview.
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FLIGHT FAIR

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners conduct their personal investigations into paper airplane flight. Cooperative teams are formed, with students choosing the paper airplane design that they are most interested in building.
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Australia

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students discover and write stories from the past.  In this lesson on Australia, students conduct interviews of family or friends to discover stories and legends from the past. Students then create a brochure for Australia. 
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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit: Oral Histories

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students conduct oral histories of family members to explore their cultural and ethnic heritage after developing a set of research questions.
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Reading for Information: Chinese Emigration

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners explore Chinese emigration and answer comprehension questions from the reading; students conduct interview with someone who has immigrated to the United States.
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Personal Opinions, Part 1

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students interview their peers and teachers, in Spanish, about environmental issues. They write a response to their interviews and create a Venn diagram to identify similarities and differences between two cultural responses.
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My Academic Goals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate academic goals and how they lead to career choices. They conduct interviews and complete worksheets, and discuss the issues.
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Coming to Terms: Stories of Southeast Asian Political Refugees

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine the reasons why Southeast Asian refugees left their home for the United States. They conduct interviews and research their suffering and history. They examine primary source documents to better understand their...
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Survivor Interview One Survivor’s Story – Edith Birkin Survivor InterviewTopic 6: One Survivor’s Story

For Students 8th - 11th
For this Holocaust worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by filling in details about the questions they would ask of a Holocaust survivor.
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Why is This True?

For Teachers 7th Standards
Are wages based on race? On gender? Class members research wages for workers according to race and gender, create graphs and charts of their data, and compute differences by percentages. They then share their findings with adults and...
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The Law: Child Protection

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders investigate child protection laws and the services they provide. They describe the differences between voluntary and involuntary placement. They role-play as child protection workers and investigate cases and recommend...
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Glided Age

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders will participate to brainstorm on the overhead, characteristics of an "irresponsible" adult and 5 of a "responsible" one? How do these differ if we apply these to businesses? Working in partners--Create a Code of Ethics...
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Conflicting Voices of the Mexican War

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Americans wanted to fulfill Manifest Destiny, and this pattern continued with the Mexican War. The resource specifically teaches about the Mexican War through a variety of exercises including a research project, group work, brainstorming...
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To Be or Not To Be

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate and conduct an interview associated with a career they are considering. They present the information in an expository writing piece using a different point of view.
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Teacher's Gift

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make a framed interview story as a teacher gift. In this interview lesson, students work at home to complete a parent lead interview about their teachers. They draw a picture of their teachers which they frame along with the...
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Student Baseball Cards

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars develop baseball cards with information about their classmates. They interview each other and take a picture for the cards. They share their cards with others in the room.

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