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Curated OER

Designing a Quilt Pattern

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students create and color a one-patch quilt design based upon a regular hexagon. They examine quilts and photos of quilt designs, read a handout, and complete their quilt design on a worksheet.
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Curated OER

English Colonization

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss their prior knowledge of what colonization means and give their opinions of why someone would want to start a colony. After recording their answers on web map they read about the English colonization in their books;...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Native People of the Caribbean

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders use a map and locate and define the Caribbean region and then work in groups to read the passage and timeline. The groups' reader will read the passage aloud and the recorder makes a list of why colonists used slave...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Getting from Place to Place

For Teachers 5th - 11th
Students examine modes of transportation. In this transportation lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture on modes of transportation over the past 300 years. Students respond to questions about...
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Curated OER

Immigration

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine the American immigration experience. In this immigration lesson, 8th graders watch a video about Ellis Island and discuss the processing that took place there. Students write letters in the voice of American...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Breaking News English: International Car Free Day

For Students 5th - 10th
For this English worksheet, students read "International Car Free Day," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

POWERFUL POTATO

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will observe the growth process of a potato plant.Plant a potato in a large clay pot or gallon bucket. You may purchase seed potatoes from a seed outlet in early spring or use a potato from home that has started to sprout. Make...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pump it Up

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the rising cost of gasoline and how it impacts people around the world differently.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Problems with the Congress of Vienna

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read a text that outlines the Congress of Vienna. They discuss the main goals of the Congress of Vienna and complete a chart.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

TRADERS' GAME

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers 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...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Jamestown Journey Part 2

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create a chart or web to display qualities and characteristics of a good leader. They write a paragraph describing the qualities of a good Jamestown leader. Finally, 4th graders contribute to small group discussion about...
Graphic
University of Oregon

Mapping History: European History

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive and animated maps and timelines of historical events and time periods in European history from Greek and Phoenician colonization up to the 20th century.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap European History: Towards a Unified Europe

For Students 9th - 10th
AP European History course on the development of a European union with downlodable handouts, assignments, text video and other resources.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: European History Art Presentations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The students are assigned an artist from the period of European history that the class is studying at the time of the assignment. The students will research their artist and write a one page paper giving the general background...
Primary
Brigham Young University

Euro Docs: Online Sources for European History

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Connect to primary source documents (facsimiles. transcriptions, translations) that trace the history of Europe.
Handout
Other

An Introduction to Early Modern European History

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent introduction to and overview of the Renaissance and Reformation in Europe. This article touches on all aspects of the period.
Website
University of Calgary

University of Calgary: The End of Europe's Middle Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
This useful tutorial includes information about the economy, feudalism, the Holy Roman Empire and other important topics pertaining to Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, a time of transition in European history. Easy to...
Unit Plan
Stanford University

Stanford History Education Group: The Dark Ages

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Primary and secondary source documents, timeline, PowerPoint, and lesson plan reinforcing life during the Dark Ages in Europe. Over several days students will come to understand all aspects of this...
Article
Made From Media

Made From History: Europe in 1914 First World War Alliances Explained

For Students 9th - 10th
See actual illustrated maps form the time of World War I. On one side, see the dual alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary, and on the other, the Triple Entente between France, Russia, and Great Britain.
Website
Steven Kreis, PhD

The History Guide: Age of Anxiety: Europe in the 1920's

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides text from a lecture that looks at European culture after WWI. Looks at the literary and artistic developments during and as a result of the war. With links to several biographical websites on authors and philosophers...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap European: World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
AP European History learning module on World War II traces the beginnings of the war from a dissillusioned Europe through the course of the war. Module includes assignments, enrichment activities, downloads, maps and assessment for...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap European: Wars of Religion & 17th Century Upheaval

For Students 9th - 10th
AP European History Learning module on wars, religion and the ensuing turmoil in the 17th Century.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap European: Turn of the Century Tensions

For Students 9th - 10th
AP European History learning module on tensions within Europe during an age of Imperialism and national unification.
Handout
Digital History

Digital History: The Cold War in Developing Countries

For Students 9th - 10th
In Europe, there was less violence in the half century following World War II then in almost any previous period of modern European history. Yet outside of Europe and North America, violent conflict became commonplace. In the decades...

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