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COMING TO AMERICA:A PILGRIM STORY LESSON

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
By completing this lesson, students demonstrate their reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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How Can We Improve Family Relationships? A Unit for 2nd Graders on Conflict Management and Family

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the skills they need to have in order to function successfully in a family unit. They look at how families are different from one another and at the dynamics that exist in the families in this unit of lessons.
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When the Personal Becomes Presidential

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore American voter's attitudes toward the checkered pasts of presidents and presidential candidates. They create and conduct a survey of members of their school community and analyze the results.
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Changing Families Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the increase of multigenerational families living under one roof. In groups, they discuss how more generations are affecting younger generations and how the family structure affects the relationships in families. They...
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World Marriage Day

For Students 7th - 8th
In this World Marriage Day worksheet, students read or listen to a passage, then match phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, unscramble words and sentences, put sentences in order, write discussion questions and conduct a...
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We Are Family

For Teachers K
Students participate in a class discussion about their family structures. Students also discuss the family diversity of their peers and others in the world. They investigate family habits, family history, values and traditions their...
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Lesson Plan for History: The Inauguration Speech of President Jefferson Davis

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explain Davis's views on Southern Secession.  In this American History lesson, 11th graders read and analyze primary sources. 
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Would You Live Common Law?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars explore common law. In this sociology lesson, students discover what constitutes common law unions in Canada and then discuss how common law relationships compare to marriages.
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Maya Angelou

For Students 4th - 8th
In this famous person activity, students read a passage about Maya Angelou and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and...
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Families

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students examine Canadian census data from 1981 and 2001 to investigate how the family structure has changed. They investigate important aspects of family life.
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My Time - Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discuss time, organize events like geologists do, become familiar with format of time scale used to organize information about Earth history, create list of 20 major events in their lifetimes, and add information about...
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Elder Migration: Grandparents and Where They Live Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how migration affects population change. In groups, they create a list of reasons why adults change residences and research migratory patterns among older adults. They explain the effects of migration of senior members...
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Committment - Total Enthusiasm

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss as a class some major committments they have to face, and tell why they regard them as "major". They divide into pairs to investigate core requirements for one of the careers listed on a worksheet. Then in pairs, they...
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Services, Services, Services+++ Who You Gonna Call?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils research various services (agencies) provided by the government. They prepare a written report about the agency and also about an individual service it provides. They list steps involved in gaining a specific service provided by...