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African Art and Personal Adornment: African Folktales
Students write a folktale based on an African adinkra symbol. They research its meaning and relate it as the theme.
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Geography
Students work together in groups to research the cultural groups of West Africa, Sudan and the Guinea Coast. They compare and contrast each culture and locate the political and cultural boundaries on a map.
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Where We Live
Students make a 'where we live' chart to find what's common and unique about where they live. For this living analysis lesson, students complete a chart about where they live.
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Starting With Stats
Statisticians analyze a data set of student IQs by finding measures of central tendency and dispersion such as mean, median, mode, and quartiles. They practice using a graphing calculator to find the values and analyze box plots and...
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The Aral Sea: A Time for Change
Ninth graders investigate the physical changes in the Aral Sea from the year of 1960. They conduct research to find information. Students compare and contrast the changes caused by human activity over the years. They create their own...
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Mexico Field Trip
Explore how the library or Internet resources function as textual information. Young writers research a chosen topic then read and comprehend the collected information. They structure the information with texts and graphics for a...
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Fiesta
Students demonstrate an understanding of what a fiesta is by participating in various activities and conducting research.
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Crimean War
In this Crimean War learning exercise, students read a 6-paragraph selection about the war and then outline key dates and events noted in the selection.
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Henry Hudson: 400th Anniversary of Discovery
Commemorate the discovery made by Henry Hudson and delve into the Age of Exploration.
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Creating Adinkra Symbols
Students discover examples of adinkra cloth. They explain the history of the symbols themselves. They create a larger pattern using geometric symbols. They discover how the symbols can be used to communicate with one another.
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Scarification
Pupils examine the process of scarification. They use their prior knowledge to discuss how to change the appearance of the human body. They write a summary about what they have learned.
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African Art and Personal Adornment: What is Beauty?
Students examine the concept of beauty. They write about what they think is beautiful and compare their ideas to those of others.
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Rhombi
Pupils examine the rhombi or diamond shape and compare it to the square. Students are challenged to create as many flat rhombus shapes as possible and develop a definition for the rhombus shape in 20 minutes while working in teams of four.
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Weighty Matters
Young scholars analyze political cartoons, and write short paragraphs explaining the cartoon's meaning and the cartoonist's point-of-view.
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African Art and Personal Adornment
Young scholars explore the concept of personal adornment. They view and compile a list examples and compare personal adornment in American culture to that in African culture.
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What's the Truth Here?
Students interpret two documents from two different countries and evaluate the evidence presented in each one through comparing and contrasting the information to find the truth.