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Giggle Water & Struggle Buggies
Here is a lesson that acquaints learners with the 1920s. They will use primary source documents to create original skits. Students choose a character from the 1920s, become that character, and then share what they have learned through...
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Pizza for Everyone
Pizza is the inspiration for the cross-curricular lesson plan detailed here. Start out with a poem about pizza and move into a discussion about balanced eating. To close the language arts portion of the lesson plan, ask your pupils to...
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It All Begins With A Name
When students learn about coats of arms symbols, they can explore history, math, and their own ancestry.
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New Picture Books to Complement Your Curriculum
These picture books are for primary learners and older students alike.
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Homeschooling through the Holidays
Use your unique flexibility to help your family explore the holiday traditions of various cultures.
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Sacco and Vanzetti: “The Case That Will Not Die”
Studying this case within its historical context can help us better understand urgent current issues of today.
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Inclusive Celebrations
Students discover how celebrations evolve. They explore the history of Halloween. Students devise an inclusive celebration for the end of school term. They create an illustrated pamphlet.
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I Hate All . . .
Students examine the concept of prejudice of human beings towards other human beings. They define prejudice and analyze the history of the word, read a U.N. Commission Report on prejudice, and examine textbooks for prejudice.
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Appreciating Our American Heritage
Learners learn about the Chinese culture via literature. They read the poetry of Cathy Song, considering national pride as Americans and Chinese.
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Where Do People Move To Or From?
Students identify countries of origin of their ancestors, graph patterns of migration to the U.S. and Hawaii, then utilize oral history as a primary document by interviewing their ancestors or parents to explain why they moved to their...
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Revolutionary Money
Examine paper money from the American revolution! Historians study the paper bills and discuss the history of money. How has money changed over the times? Activities are included.
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Watching Crystals Grow
Amazing science can sometimes happen right before your eyes! The class gets cozy as they watch crystals grow. They use Epsom salts, rocks, and food coloring to create crystals. They'll observe the entire process, documenting every step...
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Changing Borders
Students explain that the boundaries between countries are not permanent, then analyze current events and stories as examples of cooperation and conflict. They describe a place using physical and human characteristics.
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Pizza and the Economy
Learners become aware of the history behind pizza and how it was adapted to the economic and geographic conditions of the United States. They have a basic understanding of the concepts of supply and demand.
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Discovering Your Heritage
Students interview a family member about their heritage. They listen to and record part of their family's oral history. Students also create and label a family tree going back a minimum of two generations and compare and contrast...
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Seeing Your Jewish Community Through Different Eyes
Learners analyze a variety of journal entries to view Jewish communities through different eyes. The first one is by Faimonda Koplnitsky. She emigrated from Ukraine as a girl and published a book, called "No Words to Say Goodbye."
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Hey Kid, Want To Buy A Bridge?
Students study the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the inventions of Thomas Alva Edison. They design an infomercial to sell a product or a service for an invention. They create an invention that improves the world and write an...
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Thematic Unit: Beginning Holocaust Studies
Fifth graders discuss concepts of diversity, culture, and prejudice, gain understanding of harm caused by prejudice, and demonstrate ability to think critically and a desire to act morally.
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The Voice of Dreams
High schoolers explore, analyze and study novel reflections on the American dream that the United States has held the promise of unlimited possibilities. They describe the concept of the American dream, listen to and record real stories...
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U.S. Possessions
Ninth graders research the United States acquisition of the Philippines and their fight for independence. They locate the Philippines on a map and brainstorm how its geography has benefits. They access the Internet and complete a student...
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The Traditions of Christmas
For this holiday reading comprehension worksheet, students learn about 3 common Christmas traditions: wreaths, stockings, and decorated trees. Students read facts about each and answer questions.
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Math: Perimeter, Area, and Volume
Eighth graders discover how to compute the perimeter, area, and volume of different objects. With partners, they find and calculate the perimeter , area, and volume of 10 items each and exchange information. Students compile their...
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Views of the American West: True or False?
Young scholars explain that a landscape painting may or may not accurately represent a specific place. They identify techniques that create the illusion of three-dimensional space on a flat surface.