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Students Involved in the Community
Eighth graders discuss the importance of serving in the community. Individually, they choose a community agency or program to volunteer for a specific period of time. They realize their sense of pride and accomplishment as well as...
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Say It Loud!: A Celebration Of Black Music In America - Episode 3: Can I Get A Witness
Learners identify many genres of music that influenced gospel and study examples of gospel music. They explain that gospel music is sacred and is usually performed with sincerity, dignity, and passion with vocal improvisation.
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Self-portraits: Integrating Arts And the Language Arts
Pupils look into a mirror and draw their own self-portraits. Then they write a descriptive essay, describing the portrait and the features of their face.
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Collocations-- Nouns
In this verb and adjective activity, students choose the best word from a word bank to complete each of 14 sentences. This is from the UK and intended for ESL adults, but is usable by others.
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Analyzing the 2000 Election
Pupils research and analyze the year 2000 presidential election results. They identify the reasons this particular election was so unusual and predict how voting outcomes might affect their communities, the country and the world.
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Discussion-Activity: An Election Primer
Learners research and discuss the 2000 presidential election. They role-play Al Gore's and George W. Bush's legal teams, and members of the Florida Supreme Court. They of each legal team present their arguments to the Supreme Court.
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Passages of Man and Word
Third graders explore transportation and written communication prior to the Renaissance.
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OK in Oklahoma? All-Black Communities
Young scholars read to discover the African-American migration to Oklahoma following the Civil War and the eventual settlements of thirty-two all-black towns. To present their findings, students will write position papers and participate...
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Land Use in New Hampshire: Farming
Students examine how the environment as affected people farming in New Hampshire. They visit a field trip to a local farm to make observations. They create a poem based on their observations.
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Romare Bearden
Students examine and discuss a collage by the artist Romare Bearden. They analyze the impact of jazz on art, listen to jazz, and create an original collage.
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Paths to the Presidency
Seventh graders investigate a timeline of the career paths that US presidents took before they became the president. They how these career choices prepared these men for the presidency.
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Hardships of the Maine-land
Fifth graders examine the design of the Maine quarter reverse and identify the objects depicted. They compare the settlement at Popham, Maine with that at Jamestown, Virginia.They write journal entries and draw pictures about the Maine...
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The Uprising of 1934
Students complete a series of activities such as wriing letters to the president, creating collages, analysing photos and newspapers, and journaling related to the strike of 1934.
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Ethnographic Film: Representations of the Other in Media
High schoolers examine how film represents different cultures. They think critically about these representations and how they affect people who are watching them.
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"For the Birds" [part I]
Students identify birds that appear in Chinese and Japanese art, learning about
their physical characteristics, classifying them according to scientific principles, and exploring their habitats and migration patterns. This is part one...
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: An American Grail?
Students discuss the possibility of a treasure lost in the Sierra Madre mountains that could be considered the American holy grail. After reading a novel, they examine the relationship between the grail, gold, and characters. To end the...
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Settling Nroth America: Improvisation and Playwriting
Students map the classroom by marking the movement of the first Americans' migration from Alaska down into North America. To improve their skills in map-reading and sense of direction, students identify physical features of the map and...
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Whose Business?
Fourth graders compare and contrast the businesses in Fort Griffin with those in their own community. Using the internet, they discover the factors that have influenced the development of businesses in a town. They also create a map of...
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Doubles: Japan and America's Intercultural Children
Learners experience issues of intercultural children born as a result of the Occupation of Japan by American soldiers. They reflect on how these experiences and issues might be relevant to our own lives. Task cars are available to print...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: School Readiness
Use these resources to turn everyday moments into brain-building adventures. Children's lives are packed with first-time experiences. As a caring, supportive adult who talks with them, asks them questions, offers comfort, and shares...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Kinghorn School Days
The history of the one-room school house in Kinghorn, Ontario operated between 1895 and 1936. Its history is told here through narratives, sound and images.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: On the School Bus: Martinsburg, Indiana 1939
It's an early winter morning in rural Indiana, and Russell Bishop is getting ready to drive his school bus route. His daughter Mary Lou is with him, and his double-deep orange school bus is parked outside the family farm's barn. An...
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: School Yard Memories
Trace the history of Stevenston School from its pre-history construction in the late 1800s through its many upgrades until 1948 with the opening of Lord Byng School #3.
Other
Sachem Central School District: Your History Site: The Muckrakers [Pdf]
Excerpts from the writings of Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and Jacob Riis on early industrial America. Topics include the horrors that went into the making of sausages, the problem of transportation and the Standard Oil Company, and life...