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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The First Communities

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
These documents list essential questions and foundational concepts associated with early civilizations and farming communities in the agricultural revolution. Use this as a starting point for developing specific lessons and activities...
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Multiplication & Division

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Helpful for building a multiplication unit that focuses on different strategies. With explanations about repeated addition and subtraction as foundations for multiplication, scaling, summaries of progression, and basic multiplication and...
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Foreign Policy Research Institute

What is Islam and What are the Root Causes of Muslim Anger with the West?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
A video and magazine article provide the foundation for learning about Islam and why some Muslims are angry with Western society. In groups, learners identify the causes of hostility and prepare a presentation that explains them. While...
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Lesson Plan 3: Order of Operation

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Order of operations is foundational for the future study of algebra. With ample time for instruction and independent practice these activities will help your class improve their understanding of this important concept. Includes the...
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Pet Care Pluses

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
The humane society has created a foundational math symbols lesson. The class defines the words plus, minus and equals, then solves math equations based on proper pet care.
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San José State University

Effective Argumentation: Premises and Conclusions

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Augment argumentative skills with this handout and brief exercise. This resource outlines premises, conclusions, and joining words, and explains how these make up the foundation of logical arguments. After reading through this...
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Reading Made Easy with Mindwing Concepts

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
While this resource is actually attempting to sell a product, the foundational ideas may be worth looking into. Using Braidy the StoryBraid doll, learners will gain a better understanding of beginning, middle, and end, as well as story...
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Elements of the Oral Tradition

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Various genres of oral tradition are outlined and defined in these slides. Give your class examples of folk tales, fairy tales, parables, fables, legends, and myths before reading an example of one of these stories. This overview acts as...
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Match the Letters

For Students Pre-K - K
Build a foundation of alphabet familiarity using this matching worksheet. Learners focus on lowercase letters a, o, c, d, g, and q as they match balloons to corresponding children. Each balloon and child has a letter inside, so...
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Match the Letters

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Before youngsters begin reading, they need a foundational familiarity with alphabet letters. This matching instructional activity focuses on lowercase letters m, n, u, v, and w. Learners match letters on teddy bears with the same letter...
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Match the Letters

For Students Pre-K - K
Pre-readers need to build a foundation of familiarity with letters. This visual matching worksheet has youngsters pair bees with flowers based on the lowercase letter inside each. They work with the letters t, j, d, i, p, and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Make 9

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learning how numbers are put together as parts and wholes is a big step in building the foundational number sense of young mathematicians. Here, children are given a number less than 10 and are asked to find as many pairs of numbers as...
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Starting to Build: Framing and Roofing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how a building's foundation is its frame and support system. They compare the frame of a house to the skeleton of the body. They draw roofs and select flooring.
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Concrete Block Estimation

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students estimate the material needs for a concrete block foundation of a given size, with a given number of openings.
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Hmmm-What is Philanthropy?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop an understanding of philanthropy through definition and actions. Students to get to know themselves and their classmates by engaging in activities imbedded in this lesson. They investigate the types of philanthropic...
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Design of Our Own

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students recognize family, school, and local community leaders who have contributed to the common good. Learners also study community foundations.
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Energy Woes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners role play as members of Save the Earth Foundation attending a public hearing about potential energy failures. They write a plan of action regarding the advantages an disadvantages of alternative energy sources.
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Forecast Sunny and Warm

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson plan, students participate in hands-on activities that replicate building a foundation and providing for future generations.
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Ideas for Activities and Discussions About the U.S. Constitution

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Incorporating lessons about the foundation of the U.S. Constitution can invigorate the minds of students.
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Bag the Beans

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are exposed to a wide array of concrete representations to help develop a foundation for the higher abstract ideas associated with mathematical inquiry. In this lesson plan, students will work with manipulatives (beans) to...
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Citizenship Worksheet 2 - A Government of Laws

For Students 8th - 9th
In this citizenship and government laws worksheet, students identify what the United States government provides for its citizens, the foundations of that government, the principles of the Constitution, any amendments to the Constitution,...
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Creating Characters

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify simple pictographs and ideographs from Chinese writing. They create their own images, and combine characters to communicate ideas to one another, introducing basic foundations of how elements of the Chinese writing...
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Foundations of American Government

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the origins of American government.
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Foundations of the Constitution

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the Magna Carta and the Mayflower Compact.

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