Curated OER
"Street Fight" Lesson Plan
Students watch a film which examine the 2002 Newark mayoral election. They experience the electoral process from the viewpoint of a politician.
Curated OER
Your Politician: Myth vs. Reality
Pupils adopt a public official, research how they spend their time, and define the actual duties associated with the job. They sort perceptions about the job into myths and realities, and analyze political cartoons involving their official.
Curated OER
Flyer
Students create a flyer used to announce a transition meeting for the individual student as he/she enters high school. Students summarize the purpose of the meeting, remind the teachers of the meeting's date, and then distribute it to...
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Aquatic Ecosystems
Ninth graders record information on aquatic ecosystems and create a labeled diagram of an ecosystem of their choice. They can choose from an ocean zone, estuary, river, lakes, or beaches. The student has to explain their biome of choice.
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Writing About Outdoor Activities
Students discuss what they like about parks and make a list of different things they like to do there such as swing, run, play ball, ride a bike, or go on a hike. They discover the locations of some examples of National Parks and that...
Curated OER
Narrow Road to the Interior
Students investigate the life and work of the Japanese poet, Matsuo Basho as the Japanese poetic forms are studied. Nature, symbolism, and history are probed as the lesson is developed.
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Home: the Story of Maine "A Love for the Land": Where Are You? Who Are You?
Students investigate their neighborhood both as it is now and as it was 100 years ago. They take a walk around their neighborhood and fill out a worksheet before completing a worksheet.
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Is it Partly Cloudy or Partly Sunny?
Students investigate the concept of weather and how it is created. They review relevant vocabulary related to weather. Students predict weather given slight background knowledge. The lesson includes background information for the...
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Female Fur Traders: Breaking Arbitrary Barriers
Eighth graders read a variety of articles and watch a video about the history of female Canadian fur traders. They contribute to a website on the subject and develop a presentation with their research for the class.
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Centennial: Symbols of Utah
Fourth graders examine how symbols bring to mind facts, feelings, emotions, and events. They design a new, contemporary flag to promote the state of Utah.
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Volunteering As Good Work
Students generate questions to ask volunteers. They conduct interviews to determine volunteer's motivation. They write thank you letters to volunteers.
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Saving the Past for the Future
Students examine the need for preservation of archaeological resources. They discuss and propose possible solutions to a given ethical dilemma.
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Career Choices Are Changing
Third graders use magazine to find pictures of things that their grandparents did not have and make a display listing related careers to each picture. They discuss how the world has changed.
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Edison National Historic Site
Students use maps, readings and photos to research and describe how Thomas Edison created the first modern laboratory complex. They simulate the process of invention and consider how technological advances have affected their own...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 3: Money in Our Community
Lesson focuses on how and why money circulated within our community. Being able to discern the difference between things we need and things we want is one of the foundational concepts for using money wisely. Goods and services are things...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Economic Incentives in Our Community
Students will identify positive and negative economic incentives used in their communities to encourage people to make CHOICES beneficial to the community. Students will recognize that not all incentives convince all people since people...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Who Is in Your Online Community?
[Free Registration/Login Required] By learning the Rings of Responsibility, 2nd graders explore how the Internet connects us to people in our community and throughout the world. Help students to think critically about the different ways...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Service in Our Community Bingo
Lesson in which students play a community-themed bingo game to help them understand roles people play in the local community.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Meet the People in Your Neighborhood
Recognize the different occupations, and their roles, within the community.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Survival of a People: Using Our Natural Resources 1875 19
The struggle of communities to inhabit small islands off the coast of Nova Scotia is profiled. Weather and poor land challenged the people but as transportation and communication expanded, the isolation and life style of the islanders...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: This Is My Town
Learn about all the things a small town has to offer to people who live or visit there. Includes audio narration in 20 additional languages with text in English.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Health Community Project
Use these resources and create a project identifying an issue with the health of people in the community and working out actions that could be taken to reduce the problem.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 5: Make a Difference
How can sharing with others improve our community and the lives of people throughout the world? For this lesson, students will attempt to entice others to support a charity of their choice.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Power to the People
Students read and evaluate descriptions of how people live "off the grid" using solar power and come to understand better the degree to which that lifestyle is or is not truly independent of technological, economic and cultural...