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Favorite Places & Spaces

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students research and identify differences in details in the three versions of Vincent van Gogh's "Bedroom at Arles." They identify a place that has meaning to them. Afterward, they create a textured painting of that place and describe...
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Facing History and Ourselves

Our Names and Our Place in the World

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Names come with all sorts of nuances and can influence how we see ourselves and how others see us. To gain insight into the power of names, class members journal about their names and then read a short essay about a girl and her feelings...
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A Walk Around the School: Mapping Places Near and Far

For Teachers K - 1st
After reading Pat Hutchins’ Rosie’s Walk, have your young cartographers create a map of Rosie’s walk. Then lead them on a walk around the school. When you return class members sequence the walk by making a list of how the class got from...
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Annenberg Foundation

Placing Artifacts in Time

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Can history distort the true story behind famous people? Scholars analyze the many faces of the Native American Pocahontas. Incorporating technology and historical thinking skills, they uncover the many different sides to the Pocahontas...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

People and Places in the North and South

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
North and South: two opposite directions and two opposite economic and social systems in time of the Civil War. Pupils peruse census websites and primary source photographs to understand what life was like for the everyday person before...
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The Market Place, Derby, UK

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this city quiz series instructional activity, students visit the Market Place in Derby, UK and answer questions about stores and activities available there. Students answer 20 questions.
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Globe Lesson 8 - Locating Places - Grade 6+

For Students 6th - 8th
In this absolute location instructional activity, middle schoolers read a 2-paragraph review of locating places and respond to 16 short answer questions.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Prepositions of Place

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this grammar worksheet, students will look at a map of Derby, UK (a link is provided). Then students will select the best preposition of place to complete 10 sentences about landmarks in Derby.
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Foreign Place Names Quiz

For Students 6th - 12th
In this online interactive geography quiz worksheet, students respond to 20 identification questions about foreign place names. Students have 4 minutes to complete the quiz.
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Oh, the Places You'll Go!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read about and discuss the fifty-three recommended travel destinations for 2008 from the Travel section of The New York Times. They list three places they would each like to visit, read and discuss the news article, and create...
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Places on the Planet: Latitude and Longitude

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students locate different places on globes and maps by learning about latitude and longitude lines. In this latitude and longitude lesson plan, students identify specific locations based on the degrees of latitude and longitude.
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A Sense of Place

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read "Fish Tale: Falling For a Live One" from The New York Times and discuss the methods and techniques the writer uses to create a strong mental image. Students pick a place in their community they wish to write about and...
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Africa: Its People And Places

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners plan a pretend trip to the African continent choosing from several prominent places such as the Nile Delta, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Sahara Desert . In small groups, they form transportation, accommodation, packing, itinerary...
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Spirit of Place Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th
In this sense of place activity, middle schoolers work individually or in groups reading "Finding the Soul of the City" and discussing the questions in each section in order to investigate the communities they live in.
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Generational Geovision: People's Perceptions of Place Over Time

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how perceptions of place are influenced by time, cultural setting, and experience. They write a class paragraph describing the community, develop a list of questions from the topics included in the paragraph, and...
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Place and Date

For Students 4th - 5th
In this social studies instructional activity about the past, students use information from a web site to write a caption, place, and date for each of 9 photographs given. Then they describe some of the changes that have occurred in...
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Organizer
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Names of Places

For Students 4th - 6th
In this names of places instructional activity, students read 12 place names in a word bank. Students fill out a chart with these names and place them in the correct category: continents, countries or cities.
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Place Comparisons

For Students 8th - 12th
For this place comparisons worksheet, students research contemporary nation-states and respond to 20 short answer questions about the nation-states they researched.
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Johnny Appleseed Walkabout

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders calculate mileage for a journey. For this place value and measurement lesson, 2nd graders read Johnny Appleseed, work in groups to locate his birthplace on a map, locate the other states he stopped in, and measure the...
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Anglo-Saxon Place Names

For Students 5th - 6th
In this geography and language arts worksheets, students examine the meaning of Anglo-Saxon words in the names of places. They read about the fact that Anglo-Saxon place names include people's names before creating original Anglo-Saxon...
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Market Place Word Search

For Students 7th - 12th
In this Tudor market place word search worksheet, learners locate and circle 14 significant terms pertaining to this time period in British history. A word bank is provided.
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Learning to Give

Your Place in the Community

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners identify their beliefs and values and compare how these values relate to those of their community. They then determine how their values affect the roles they play in different situations. A quiz about values and beliefs...
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Libraries Are the Place to Be

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Celebrate National Library Week by discovering all that your local library and the Library of Congress have to offer.
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School District of Palm Beach County

Egyptian Hieroglyphs

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Humans have been developing number systems for thousands of years, and while they can be very different from one another, they can also share surprising similarities. Take your young mathematicians on a journey through the history of...

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