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Snuggle Up To Pattern Blocks
Students view and discuss a video about the use of pattern block shapes to form pictures. They, in groups, form garden and quilt designs using pattern blocks and then decorate the room with their art.
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Math Quilts
Students examine geometric shapes. In this geometric shape lesson plan, students examine how geometric shapes flip, turn, and slide to create a pattern. Students analyze the role that quilts played in helping slaves escape to freedom. ...
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The Environment & Economy of SE Utah
Students compare and contrast the environment to the economy of Utah. In groups, they pick one environmental issue and identify its relationship to sustainable economic growth. To end the lesson, they share their findings with the...
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Government Lesson Plan: Lesson Plan 10
High schoolers explore the history, diversity, and commonality of the peoples of the nation and world. They analyze how the United States' political, economic and social goals directly affect our foreign policy.
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Exploring Nations
Students, in groups, research countries in East and Southeast Asia. The group designs an oral presentation and PowerPoint slideshow to showcase research on landforms, political and economic issues, global interaction and special-purpose...
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Social Studies: Factors Involved in the Spread of Disease
Students examine the reasons diseases become epidemics. they analyze the social, political, and economics factors involved in the process. Students complete charts explaining how these factors aid the spread of disease and discuss...
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The IMF In Action: How Can the IMF Help In Time of Crisis?
Students attempt to solve a countries economic problems. They investigate inflation, devaluing currency and foreign exchange.
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TRADERS' GAME
Young scholars play a game aimed at demonstrating how relationships with other communities or countries affect the food and fiber system. The game simulates the unequal distribution of natural resources which creates the need for...
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Food in History
Pupils research, predict and offer solutions regarding factors that affect current or future food crops could result in economic, political or social changes.
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String Trade
Ninth graders discuss the concept of imports and exports in trade. They participate in a simulation that explores the interchange and relationships between natural resources, scarcity, politics and tariffs.
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Learners discuss their prior knowledge of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Using the internet, they research the personal, political and economic influences that made an impact on the expedition. They also discover how the expedition...
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Making Connections: Trade and disease today
Young scholars read an article on globalization in our lives. They explore current disease threats and how they are spread today. Students make an effort at making a connection between infectious diseases and economic development.
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Red River of the North Flooding 1997
Students describe factors that affect the flow of rivers and explain their relationships. They research the factors involved in flooding events. describe the effects of present and future practices in land use, and river control methods.
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Alderwood Manor: A Sequential Inquiry in Environmental Bioethics
High schoolers explore bioethics. They discuss the traditional ethics of human conduct and man's relationship with nature. Students identify ethical dilemmas. They discuss ramifications of economic and ecological concerns with bioethics.
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Unit on Globalization and the Environment
Twelfth graders analyze issues affecting ecosystems. They examine the relationships between members of the international comunity. They also examine the concept of sustainable development.
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Class Distinctions in Art And Literature
Young scholars evaluate the validity of a society where the individual's place is based on such arbitrary norms as gender, family connections, economic status, or military prowess in this look at Asian culture.
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Fluctuations in the Price of Oil
Young scholars examine the fluctuating gas prices and the effect it has on the Canadian economy by reviewing an online database that contains information on the retail price of gas for Canada's largest cities.
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New Haven's Hill Neighborhood
Ninth graders examine the area around their school known as Hill neighborhood. In groups, they use maps to discover how the area has changed over time and how the city serves its residents. They identify the cause and effect...
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The Fabric of Our Lives:
Students discuss quilts within their family to reflect on their experiences. Students examine quilt sqares and sewing techniques. Students create the quilt square in the classroom and a Hyperstudio card in the computer lab.
Los Angeles Unified School District
Capitalism and Socialism
Capitalism, socialism, communism ... these may seem like a whole bunch of isms to your scholars. High schoolers won't confuse them after completing an informative resource. Your class masters how to use primary sources to...
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Africa: A Cultural Safari
Students examine the kingdoms of West Africa during the Middle Ages. They label maps and identify Africa's physical features, simulate the trading of gold, buy and sell goods using cowrie shells, and participate in a cultural safari day.
National History Day
“Saving the Bear”: The Russian Expeditionary Force of World War One
How have Russian politics affected countries on a global stage? The discussion of the Russian Revolution and World War I begins with an analysis of primary resource letters. Learners finish with a project where they create a timeline of...
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Special Order 40
The city of Los Angeles' 1979 Special Order 40 states: "LAPD officers shall not initiate police action with the objective of discovering the alien status of a person." After reading a fact sheet that details the history of Special Order...
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Geo-Magazine
Divide your geography class into groups and have each research an assigned region. The result of this project is a regional magazine that addresses the five themes of geography. Many valuable resource links are embedded into the...