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Minibeasts and Reading Strategies

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore reading strategies through roleplaying. In this reading lesson, 4th graders read Wings, Stings, and Wiggly Things by Martin Jenkins. Student groups pretend to be a law firm and identify words as their evidence to...
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Taking the Mystery Out of Mesopotamia

For Teachers 1st
Students locate Mesopotamia on the map and explain the importance of its location. In this Mesopotamia lesson, students understand why the new discoveries of Mesopotamia were so important to civilization. Students participate in...
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Is All Well in Welfare?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore current welfare reform issues and create plans of action to improve welfare reform laws in the United States. They predict what President Bush's "Working Towards Independence" welfare reform program might entail and...
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Mosaic America: Patterns of Racism

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use print and electronic resources to gather and analyze information on the political system in the United States. Using the Constitution, they identify and discuss instances of racism included in amendments and laws. ...
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Life in THE JUNGLE

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss problems immigrants may have when coming to a new country. They take on the role of a law maker from the era and create an action plan and policy based on samples they read (links provided). Students discuss ways their...
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Land Use and Lawmaking in California

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate the laws of using land.  In this California Government lesson, students examine the many uses of land in California and find an environmental issue they care about.  Students write a letter to a politician...
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Understanding and Supporting Our Peers with Cognitive Challenges

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore different federal laws promoting the education for the handicapped. In this literacy lesson, students brainstorm how they can help individual with Down syndrome. They read a fiction book related to the topic and discuss...
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Thinking About Violence: Assault

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students explain how the law defines an assault causing bodily harm - identifying the important elements that constitute the offense.
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Assembling the News

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders decide on which pictures and sounds to use to make their story come to life. They discover copyright rules pertaining to photographs and how to make a story come to life. They complete edits on their work to make sure all...
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Discrimination

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine concept of discrimination and explore difference between appropriate and harmful discrimination. Students discuss relevant Australian legislation and International Law, choose example of discrimination, and write...
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Land, Liberty and the Struggle for the American Dream

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate equality by reading a historical fiction book in class.  In this civil rights lesson, students read the story Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry with their classmates and define the Jim Crow Laws that kept blacks...
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Piggy Tale Election

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate democracy by reading The Three Little Pigs.  In this government lesson, 2nd graders discover ways laws are changed or enacted by holding their own election in class.  Students compare the Big Bad Wolf...
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Stegosaurus

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this making words activity, students make 31 English words from the letters in the word stegosaurus. Students write out 3 facts about the stegosaurus dinosaur on the lines provided.
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Police Use MySpace

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students interview law enforcement officials concerning their use of the Internet to catch criminals. They research how MySpace operates. They interview staff at MySpace and its uses. They write a news feature about a criminal case...
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How To Win Votes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are introduced to the concept of political campaigning. As a class, they review how Parliament makes laws. They decide on an issue they would like to see passed and get other classmates to sign their petitions. To end the...
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Poor Law Word Search

For Students 5th - 6th
In this word search instructional activity, students study the words related to the English poor law. Students locate the 17 words within the word search puzzle.
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New York State Testing-English Language Arts Grade 6

For Students 6th
In this New York state testing learning exercise, 6th graders complete a total of 26 multiple choice questions, reading selections and answering questions after each.
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New York State Testing: English Language Arts Grade 3

For Students 3rd
In this New York state grade 3 language arts test, 3rd graders complete 21 multiple choice questions, reading passages and complete questions that follow each.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Book 1 Grade 7: Sample Test 2005

For Students 6th - 8th
In this New York State Testing Program sample test activity, middle schoolers read passages and answer reading comprehension questions.  Students also write two short essays using details from the passages.
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New York State Testing: English Language Arts-Grade 3

For Students 3rd
In this language arts testing worksheet, 3rd graders complete 34 questions, reading passages and then writing relating to passages as instructed.
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ACE Expert English Homework- July 12, 2006

For Students 4th - 5th
In this ESL worksheet, students complete 8 pages of exercises designed for ELL students from Thailand. Activities included are writing sentences, completing dialogs, and matching phrases and pictures.
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Argument in an Athenian Jail: Socrates and the Law

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars consider how Socrates might have responded to extenuating circumstances: for example, if his sentence had been imposed by a tyrant rather than in a trial, or if it had been influenced by prejudice.
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Fundamentals of English Grammar, Chart 4-5 Present Perfect Practice (since/for)

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this present perfect worksheet, students take two sentences and join them by adding for or since. There are 10 sentences to complete.
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Total English Advanced: The Unreal Past

For Students 7th - 10th
For this unreal past and hypothetical questions worksheet, students use the 10 questions provided to interview fellow classmates.

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