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Pythagorean Theorem and Its Converse

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Challenge scholars to prove the Pythagorean Theorem geometrically by using a cut-and-paste activity. They then must solve for the missing sides of right triangles.
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Women’s Suffrage Movement

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Though the movement for Women's Suffrage stretched over several decades and across two centuries, the final few years were the most difficult hurdle in many ways. Use a document-based question writing exercise to make inferences about...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Two Wheels and a Belt

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Geometry gets an engineering treatment in an exercise involving a belt wrapped around two wheels of different dimensions. Along with the wheels, this belt problem connects concepts of right triangles, tangent lines, arc length, and...
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National Woman's History Museum

Inventive Women - Part 1

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed Standards
While a woman didn't invent the parasol, three women received patents for their improvements to the original design of umbrellas. In the first of a two-part series on inventive women, class members investigate the patent system to...
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National Woman's History Museum

The National Woman’s Party

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Two parties led the women's suffrage movement. The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was a moderate organization while the National Women's Party (NWP) was more militant. Young historians investigate why members of the...
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Greater Than, Less Than, or Equal to #1, #2, #3, #4

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these four comparing numbers worksheet, students determine if the pair of numbers are greater than, less than, or equal to and use fill in the blank with the correct symbol. Students solve 120 problems.
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Right to Equal Opportunity

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate the concept of equal opportunity in school. In this equal opportunity lesson, students participate in a discussion about the fairness of certain situations in school. They listen to a story entitled, "Left Out",...
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Civil Rights/Segregation

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate Civil Rights by participating in role-playing activities.  In this U.S. History lesson, 6th graders research the history of slavery in order to portray a story through their debating and acting...
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Harriet Tubman: An American Hero

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore U.S. history by viewing a Civil Rights video. For this Harriet Tubman lesson, students identify the era in which Tubman fought for equality and list her important achievements after viewing a biographical film. Students...
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Equality: Children's Rights

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students and parents participate in a variety of activities designed to help them explore the similarities and differences of people. They design and wear masks, sort attribute blocks, read stories, discuss the rights and...
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Debating Women's Rights

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, in groups, debate Women's Rights and compare women of the past to the women of the present.
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Classifying Angles: Greater Than, Less Than, or Equal to 90 Degrees?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this angles worksheet, students analyze four angles. For each angle, students decide if it is greater, less than, or equal to a right angle. Students check the correct box.
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Civil Rights Movement in America

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore the Civil Rights movement as a culmination of history and cultural perspectives developed from the Slave Trade and Reconstruction. They identify leading persons and organizations and their personal philosophy to...
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Famous Women and Human Rights

For Teachers 4th
Student identify a famous woman who has fought for a human rights cause. They research the woman and identify the cause she fought for. They organize and display information about their famous woman on a poster.
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Right Triangles

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this right triangles worksheet, young scholars solve and complete 2 different types of problems. First, they take the case of an isosceles right triangle with a given leg and hypotenuse. Then, students find the sum of the squares of...
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Add and Subtract Equations with Equal Sign

For Students 1st - 2nd
Pupils match the partial equations on the left with the partial equations on the right. They determine which equations are equal and connect them with a line.
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Two Squares are Equal

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
This problem is sure to get your young mathematicians thinking. The idea sounds simple: one equation, solve it as many ways as you can. This is meant to get at a deeper understanding of solving quadratic equations, including some more...
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The Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students comprehend how the United States became involved in what one historian called the quagmire. Students identify and analyze the importance of the Tet Offensive in turning American public opinion against the Vietnam War. Students...
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Seeking Civil Rights

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners explore the impact of the Plessy v. Ferguson case. For this social justice lesson, students examine the case, Jim Crow laws, and non-violent forms of protest. Learners write essays to persuade the government regarding unjust laws.
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From the Right to Intervene to the Responsibility to Protect

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine humanitarian work and how it has evolved.  In this humanitarian instructional activity students complete an in class activity then discuss their findings.
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The Right Angle

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students rewrite word problems using an algebraic equation to find the answer. There are 14 questions with an answer key.
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Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Activist

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students analyze the life of Jackie Robinson and determine which characteristics contributed to his success as the baseball player who broke the color barrier and as a political activist.
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What Must Be Done To Achieve Equality?

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students evaluate various statements about what must be done to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons, students consider the responsibility they have to end discrimination. They also explore the relative...
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Speaking Out For Women's Rights

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners write a children's story in which the characters are encouraged to speak out for the equality of women. They create a character and plot outline that includes details and supporting statements for women's rights. A brief 2-3...

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