Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Lesson Plans Library K 5
This resource presents a lesson plan library which holds hundreds of lesson plans organized by grade level and subject area. Often rooted with an Internet research piece, each lesson plan contains specific objectives, procedures,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Learn the Library of Congress Classification System
The learners will develop an understanding of the organization of main and primary subclasses of the Library of Congress Classification System. The students will demonstrate knowledge and independence in using the LCC through online...
Library of Congress
Loc: Thomas Jefferson's Library: The Case for a National Library
Students examine a letter written by Thomas Jefferson and identify techniques he used to persuade Congress to purchase his personal library. Students consider a selection of Jefferson's books and then write their own persuasive letters...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Library of Congress Solitaire
After viewing a tutorial of the Outline and Call Numbers of the LC Classification system, students will create posters using a picture or graphic to identify the 21 general subject areas. Students then visit a college library online to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Comparing Dewey and the Library of Congress
High school students will learn the distinction between the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and the Library of Congress Classification (LCC). After a PowerPoint presentation of the LCC, the students will compare and contrast the two...
Library of Congress
Loc: The Minerva Mosaic of the Library of Congress
Students take a close analytical look at the historic Minerva mosaic from the Great Hall of the Library of Congress, and discover what it can tell them about the mission of the Library's founders. They will perform a basic primary source...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Library Card
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Library Card" by Jerry Spinelli. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Huntington Library: Shakespeare's Universalism [Pdf]
In this lesson, students explore how Shakespeare was able to write in a way that his characters seemed to express real emotions and will look at the literary devices he used. An extension activity has them analyze what William Hazlitt...
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Digital Library for Earth System Education (Dlese)
This resource provides materials for teachers on a huge array of topics. Search site by topic, grade level, and desired output (such as lesson plan, case study, assessment or tutorial). Site is focused on earth science, geography, and...
Newspapers in Education
Ni Eonline: Cartoons for the Classroom: Lessons Library
Newspapers in Education and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists publish simple, inventive lesson plans and ideas for classes in editorial cartooning, caption writing, and news analysis. Lessons include "cartoon blanks" that...
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George W. Bush Library: What Do Historical Objects Tell Me? [Pdf]
A comprehensive lesson training students to analyze historical objects to determine features, reliability, authenticity, and provenance through observation skills encouraged through a variety of activities.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Learning From Leaves: Adaptation [Pdf]
A scavenger hunt where students find and study examples of leaf adaptations for different environments. This activity is designed to be used on a visit to botanical gardens or greenhouse but could be adapted and used with specimens in...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Investigation: Pollen Collection [Pdf]
After learning about what pollen is, its health effects, as well as how it benefits humans, middle schoolers take part in a lab activity. For this, they collect schoolyard pollen on slides, stain it, and then examine it under a microscope.
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Huntington Library: Religious Dissent [Pdf]
This lesson supplements one on the "Settlement of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies of New England." It looks at religious dissent and intolerance among the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Students look at Roger...
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Huntington Library: Causes of the American Revolution: Stamp Act Crisis [Pdf]
In this lesson, 5th graders look at what role the Stamp Act played in the lead-up to the American Revolution. Includes background information for the teacher. Students learn about taxes, study a timeline and maps, participate in a...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Causes of American Revolution: Soldiers and Civilians at War
In this lesson, 5th graders look at causes and consequences of the American Revolution, at nations and individuals that impacted the outcome, at the roles women played, and at how the war affected families, economics, and the...
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Huntington Library: Causes of the American Revolution: Trouble in Boston [Pdf]
For this lesson, 5th graders look at ideas and British policies that contributed to the outbreak of the American Revolution. Includes background information for the teacher. Students explore ideas that were circulating in America before...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Settlement of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies
In this lesson, 5th graders learn about the people who founded the New England colonies and the role that religion played in shaping them. Includes background information for the teacher. Students explore primary resource readings on the...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Pennsylvania Colony: The Holy Experiment [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, 5th graders learn about the people who founded the Pennsylvania colony and the role that religion played in shaping it. Includes background information for the teacher. Students explore primary resource readings on...
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Huntington Library: The Corps of Discovery: The Lewis and Clark Expedition [Pdf]
In this lesson, 5th graders learn about westward expansion and the Lewis and Clark expedition. Includes background information for the teacher. Students explore primary and secondary resource readings on the Louisiana Purchase, President...
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Huntington Library: Constitution on Trial: Internment of Japanese in Wwii
In this lesson, 11th graders look at what happened to the Japanese who were living in the United States during World War II and examine their experiences of internment. They will also consider the constitutionality of removing some civil...
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Huntington Library: Lampooning Injustice: Paul Conrad and Civil Rights
In this lesson, 11th graders look at the work of Paul Conrad, a political cartoonist, who often explored issues around civil rights, including Brown v. Board of Education and school desegregation. Includes background information for the...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: The Poetry and Prose of Langston Hughes [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, 11th graders explore how the poetry of Langston Hughes reflected political and social issues of the time and how literature can support social change.
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Huntington Library: A Literature of Democracy [Pdf]
In this lesson, 11th graders explore the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his call for literature that was uniquely American. They then consider how Emerson would have responded to writings by Henry Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Harriet...
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