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Digital Public Library of America

Voting Rights Act of 1965

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Despite the passing of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, as well as the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the struggle to ensure fair voter registration and election procedures continues. Young historians...
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PBS

What's the Matter? | UNC-TV Science

For Students 5th - 12th
Explore what makes up the universe and demystify the complex ideas of matter and the atom. Group members watch a video with explanations, animations, and examples that discuss the characteristics and importance of matter. Scholars then...
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PBS

Categorizing Matter | UNC-TV Science

For Students 5th - 12th
Take the difficulty out of classifying matter with an easy-to-follow activity that makes distinguishing between pure substances and mixtures simple. Scholars explore how matter is grouped between two categories—pure substances and...
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Health Smart Virginia

Create a Game

For Teachers 5th
Challenge scholars to create a lesson plan for their peers. Small groups use a template to name the activity, list the materials, write an objective, describe how to encourage sportsmanship, and detail the day's game. Pupils answer...
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NASA

The Types of Clouds and What They Mean

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learn to forecast the weather using cloud types. Budding meteorologists identify cloud types and learn to use a dichotomous key. As scholars develop observation and identification skills, they discover how different cloud types cause...
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Newseum

Search Signals: Understanding Your Top Hits

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Class members watch a short video about the criteria used to drive search results to learn about how search engines work. Scholars use a "Search Signals" worksheet and a tip sheet to record information as they conduct a simple search of...
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Voter Qualifications Among the States

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders research the voting qualifications for each state.  In this American Government lesson, 12th graders complete a worksheet on the main ideas they have researched.  
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Forming Friendships

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils discuss the importance of friendships and the main factors of friendships after reading the story "Poll uncovers friendship secrets". The lesson plan is set up as an open class discussion in order for the students to learn from...
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Sound is Vibration

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students poll what sounds are caused by vibrations in things. They collect a variety of household items to test out their theories. A variety of experiments commence. Discussion of high and low tones occur.
Organizer
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Favorite Prize

For Students 1st
In this graphing worksheet, students focus on the usage of a pictograph. Students poll classmates and respond to 2 questions about the graph that they have created.
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Designing Samples/Simple Random Samples

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the concept of sampling techniques. For this sampling techniques lesson, students identify possible sources of bias in situations such as phone polls, supermarket surveys, and drawing names from a phone book. High...
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Mexican Music

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore Mexican music. In this multicultural music instructional activity, students read the lyrics of songs such as "Poll Parrot" and sing along with a recording of the song. Students practice the pronunciation of Mexican lyrics.
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Data Collection - Primary Poster

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the concept of collecting, analyzing, and graphing data. For this collecting, analyzing, and graphing data lesson, students create a survey about a topic of interest. Students poll their classmates, analyze, and graph...
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Wordle It

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss, define, and give themselves character traits. In this character traits lesson, students create a list of ten character traits that describe themselves. Students create a data table and poll their classmates about the...
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Curated OER

Human Genome Debate

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Learners study the Human Genome Project and participate in a debate about the project. In this genome lesson, students review the terms related to the genome project, take a poll about the ethical issues of the project, and watch a video...
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3-Every-Day of Dairyfor Stronger Bones

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students respond to a poll by actively moving in response to prompts. In this dairy nutrition lesson, students write sentences in groups using vocabulary words from a word list. Students discuss physical activity and how calcium improves...
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Religion and Immigration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read a poll on Islam and discuss the results. In this religion and immigration lesson, students complete a chart comparing and contrasting how religious diversity affects unity in a country. Students read several news excerpts,...
Organizer
Curated OER

Human Genetics

For Students All
This is a worksheet regarding human genetics where students can poll the class regarding specific traits.
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Chance and Data

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this graphing a survey worksheet, students poll 10 friends to see which of 2 football teams is their favorite and then graph their data results.
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K12 Reader

Public Education

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Your pupils may not know that school was not always required. Teach them a bit about the history of public education with a reading passage and related questions.
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Our Opinions

For Students 6th - 8th
In this opinion survey worksheet, students will work in groups of four to complete a survey of each group member's opinion on 20 topics.
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Sample This

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students gain a greater understanding of how statistical samples are conducted by taking polls of specific populations. These polls be expressed in graphs, which be compared with the same questions asked of other populations.
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Lower the UK voting age?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the designs of the voting age in UK. Students relate the topic to their own legal rights to vote. Students take a quiz to poll all the answers. Students present findings to the class.
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Chart This!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students collect data and graph or chart the information. In this data organization instructional activity, students poll their classmates about certain topics and chart or graph the information to show the results of their research.

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