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Let's Be Friends -- North Korea

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this English worksheet, students discuss North Korea. Students brainstorm, debate, and practice their listening skills with this worksheet.
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James Madison

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive history activity, students respond to 8 essay questions about the accomplishments of James Madison. 
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The Great Gatsby - Study Help

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Xenophobia

For Students 8th - 12th
In this historical events worksheet, students analyze an anti-immigration political cartoon and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Build Your Own Hovercraft

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students construct a hovercraft following specific procedures. In this technology lesson, students explain the physics principles behind hovercraft. They compare and contrast this machine with the aircraft.
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An Exercise in Kindness

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Although this resource is not a traditional lesson plan, it does explain an activity for creating a safe and supportive environment while teaching young learners the importance of being kind to one another. Start bt reading the...
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Choices in War: What Would You Save First?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars read and discuss articles about the current condition in Iraq. In groups, they role play as field generals for the coalition forces and they must create and present a visual defense plan for assigning 20,000 troops to...
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Youth Dealing With Homophobia:Stories From Real Life

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Young scholars read testimonials of real gay and lesbian teenagers dealing with homophobia. They discuss how to create an environment that respects all persons regardless of sexual orientation. They discuss a variety of emotions that...
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VA History Mini-quiz - Women and Africans arrive in Jamestown

For Students 7th - 12th
In this Virginia history activity, students examine their knowledge of Jamestown once women and Africans arrived there as they answer 13 multiple choice questions.
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Cattle Trails

For Students 7th - 12th
In this cattle trails study guide instructional activity, students read about the American West. Students read 4 sections of information.
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SAT Sentence Completion Practice Test 08

For Students 10th - 12th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students choose the answer that best completes the sentence.  Students have 10 minutes to complete 12 questions in this SAT practice worksheet.
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Boarding School vs. Day School Experiences

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students compare and contrast the lives of Hopi children that attend boarding school and those that attend day school. For this schools lesson plan, students understand changes over time as they look at these schools chronologically.
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Letter to the Editor

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils analyze and interpret letters to the editor, and use this information to write their own. Groups of students analyze letters, then submit one of their own design to an actual newspaper.
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Handwashing

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Pupils experiment in order to determine proper ways to disinfect hands to prevent the spread of infection.
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Minority Teenage Fathers: Rights and Responsibilities

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students examine current laws and use problem solving activities designed to develop in students the knowledge and skills necessary to evaluate situations they may/ be confronted with as potential teen-aged fathers.
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Beethoven: The Sound and The Fury

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners view a documentary on Beethoven. His immortal compositions have survived for generations and are as much a part of the modern world as they were almost two centuries ago. After viewing, students discuss Beethoven and compare him...
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Maya Lin

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars are able to explain the important contribution Maya Lin made to society, write about their definition of a hero, and recognize, appreciate and describe the significance of memorials.
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Coping With Divorce

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners read about what causes stress for students when their parents divorce, how learners of different ages respond differently to divorce, and strategies that can help all family members cope.
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What is a Peaceful Classroom?

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss the topic of peace and community. They identify their own examples to support their own idea of peace. They create a list of items that would make their classroom a more peaceful place.
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Heritage: Seeking Land or Gold

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write a persuasive letter home defending their decision either to settle in Utah and farm the land, or to go on to California to seek gold. They analyze a problem, make a decision, and write a letter defending their choice.
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Queen Anne's War and Its Impact on Deerfield

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students researchhow Queen Ann's War of Europe affect Native Americans in New England. After reading excerpts from History of Deerfiel by George Sheldon and Nuthatch's Dilemma, a story about a Pocumtuck woman, students are prepared to...
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Maroon Communities

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine political and religious factors that influenced English, Spanish, French, and Dutch colonization of the Americas, how slavery shaped social and economic life in the South after 1800, and elements of slavery during the...
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Retain or Abandon, Adapt or Convert? The Immigrant's Dilemma

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers read and discuss a narrative exploring how immigrants retain their own cultures or assimilate into the host country. They examine the emigrant's experience in Liberia and write a position paper.
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Effects of 11 September

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students discuss the 9/11 tragedy and the concept of misplaced blame and violence.