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Flowers, Flowers, Flowers...A Visit with Georgia O'Keeffe
Students analyze, discuss, and research Georgia O'Keeffe and her flower paintings. They select a flower to paint and create a watercolor painting in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe. Students compose a poem describing their painting.
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Stamp Act
Fifth graders write about the Stamp Act and pretend they are being taxed by the British and write how they feel. In this Stamp Act lesson plan, 5th graders view a taxation simulation.
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Independent - To Be or Not Top Be - Day 3, Lesson F: Coming to Terms
Fifth graders develop vocabulary through the study of the American Revolution.
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Moving to the Frontier
Pupils explore the Frontier House website, examining the challenges of frontier settlement in the American West in the late 1800's. They develop budgets, and create displays based on their own research.
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America's Civil Rights Movement, Activity Six
Students explore non-violence and investigate the difference between passive and active voice.
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Art Curators
Students use the Internet to select various works of art around a theme. They create a PowerPoint exhibit of these works and create the written documentation to accompany their presentation. They critique the class exhibits.
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Australian Travel Adventure
Seventh graders are introduced to the states and territories within Australia. Using the internet, they bookmark sites and take notes on what they want to share with their classmates. They also complete a map study on the country to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: American Indian Boarding Schools
This collection uses primary sources to explore American Indian boarding schools.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: About Indian Boarding Schools
Several articles and essays about the federal government's attempt to assimilate Native American children into the dominant American society in the late 1800s through the establishment and use of Indian schools.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Indian Boarding Schools
The Library of Congress provides a series of lessons that taddresses historical efforts of assimilating Native American children into white culture through boarding schools.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: An Indian Boarding School Photo Gallery
Photographs of Native American children at several Indian schools from the late 19th century and early 20th century.
PBS
Pbs: "Kill the Indian and Save the Man": Native American Representation
Learn about the impact of US government policies of assimilation, relocation, and urbanization on Native American identity and culture in this series of videos from the American Masters film Words from a Bear: N. Scott Momaday. Years...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of the American Indian: Native Words, Native Warriors
Excellent online companion site to a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition on the World War I & World War II American Indian Code Talkers. Features information on Native languages, boarding schools, code talking, and lesson...
The History Cat
The History Cat: Carlisle Indian School
Explains how Indian boarding schools came to be established, often with good intentions initially, and how native students were expected to dress and behave like white people, and were even punished for using their native language or...
University of Washington
University of Washington Libraries: Assimilation Through Education
Read about the Indians of the Pacific Northwest and the boarding schools whose curriculum attempted to assimilate their children into the dominant American culture.
Other
Lopez Books: Joseph Bruchac Essay
Joseph Bruchac gives a detailed description of his life and also discusses his involvement as a writer of Native American literature. Bruchac discusses his time as a volunteer teacher in West Africa, his memories of growing up with his...