Interactive
Curated OER

Queen Elizabeth I

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive literature activity, students respond to 10 short answer questions about Queen Elizabeth I. Students may check some of their answers on the interactive activity.
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Curated OER

How To Be a Friend

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders demonstrate skills for relating to others.
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Curated OER

Action Words

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover that a verb is a word that expresses an action. Students at this age might find it more accessible to use everyday terminology, such as doing words or action words.
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Curated OER

Character Ambassadors

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students act as ambassadors. In this character education lesson, students take on the roles of ambassadors of the character traits listed. Students write essays regarding the character traits they select.
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Curated OER

Spirit of Islam: Wrapping It Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars develop an action plan for overcoming stereotypes of the Muslim faith based on research they have conducted in previous lessons.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Media/Citizenship: Speed 3

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students examine data about the effects of speed in car accidents. They create their own media campaign about safety while driving. They share their ideas with the class.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The American West-Knowledge Test

For Students 4th - 5th
In this American West worksheet, students complete a 24 questions test about the American West. Answers are included beneath questions on worksheet.
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Curated OER

Vocabulary: Talking About (Your) Work-2

For Teachers 7th - 8th
For this foreign language worksheet, students use words related to working, or their career, to fill in the blanks on ten sentences. Each sentence has three options for students to select from.
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Curated OER

Fingerprints

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore how they are unique from others around them.
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Curated OER

Outdoor Observation

For Teachers K
Students examine their outside environment. They use their senses to make observations of the four seasons. They keep a chart of all of the data they have collected.
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Curated OER

Russia's Colony: A Story of the Colony Through Primary Sources (Part 1)

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students review the Russian American Timeline connected to the Russia's Colony unit narrative.
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: In Group/out Group: Relationships and Attitudes: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand ways in which group membership affects people's perceptions and actions towards their own and other groups. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "In-Group/Out-Group: Relationships and...
Handout
British Library

British Library: Dreamers and Dissenters

For Students 9th - 10th
How do people work to change society for the better? The British Library presents case studies of visionaries, dissenters and rule breakers through the past centuries. Counter culture, the struggle for democracy, and utopias are looked...
Unit Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: People: Assimilation and the Crucible of the City: Street Life in New York

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excerpt from Horatio Alger's well-known novel, "Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York," that describes the values and attitudes needed to make it in the capitalistic, urban America of the late-nineteenth century.
Handout
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

Faa: Forests and Forestry

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations is an excellent, detailed presentation of survey results about European attitudes towards forests and forestry. Helpful graphs and charts illustrate the survey...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Choose Your Attitude

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson engages learners in determining the importance of attitudes on many facets of life. Students will view movie clips, view PowerPoint presentations, discuss how attitudes can change and influence people's lives, and look at...
Website
Other

University of Ulster: Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey

For Students 9th - 10th
This program examines the social attitudes of people living in Northern Ireland. The survey collects data on the attitudes and beliefs of the population along with any social policy issues.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: Lexington and Concord: Tipping Point of Revolution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson where young scholars examine primary texts from 1775 and 1776 to explore the impact of the Battles of Lexington and Concord on people's attitudes towards the British. Up to that point, protests against the British had not been...
eBook
University of Groningen

American History: Essays: Jefferson's Attitude Toward the Indigenous Peoples

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay on the attitude Thomas Jefferson held about the Native Americans. Includes quotes from Jefferson's writings describing his thoughts on enslavement and treatment of indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Inferences About Attitudes Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Article discusses the author's attitude or the attitudes of people or groups that are mentioned. While not explicitly stated, these attitudes can be discovered from both the language and content of the passage.
Article
Other

Personal Site: Inter Religious Attitude

For Students 9th - 10th
A long essay from this personal site detailing Hinduism's tolerance of other religions and downplaying Hindu-Muslim tension in present-day India. Claims that Hindu India has always been a sanctuary for oppressed members of other...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Teaching Tolerance and Diversity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The aims of this unit are to develop an altruistic attitude which enriches the life of the student through enhanced insight into different social patterns and ways of life. I want my students to be reflective thinkers who are principled,...
Primary
Other

The People's Paths: Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Written in 1784, this piece by Benjamin Franklin, considers the relative meaning of civilization and manners while he recalls several anecdotes of interaction between the European settlers and the Natives of North America.
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Social Science Education Consortium

Ssec: Inflation: Are Higher Prices the Only Problem? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This investigation begins with a discussion of spare change. Students are asked to compare and analyze peoples' attitudes toward coins today to those of the past. Students then complete an activity that teaches them how to compare...