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Making Music and Playing the Blues

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research how musical instruments have changed over time. They discover how math is used in music. They describe musical instruments from photographs as well.
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Strategies for Economic Development

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students develop an awareness of the main strategies of development. The limitations of strategies is addressed. The skills of analysis and evaluation in the business environment are developed. The goal of the skills is becoming...
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The Four Religions of East Asia

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare and contrast the four main religions of Asia (Buddhism Confucianism, Daoism, and Shinto). This lesson plan is intended for use in the middle school Social Studies classroom.
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Examining the African American Role in New Haven History: Pride in the Past? Hope for the Future

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the role of African-Americans in New Haven, Connecticut. Using two maps, they compare and contrast the differences in the town from the past to today. In groups, they use the internet to research the contributions...
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Reform Movements

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the reform movements in connection to the suffering of women, African American rights, temperance and prohibition, education reform, etc... They brainstorm in groups in order to come up a historical analysis of the...
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Economics: Property Rights and the Rule of Law

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the economic value of property rights. In a classroom activity, "You're the Economist," they analyze actual research data from establishing land holding titles in Para, Brazil. They assess several case studies about the...
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Consumer Culture in the 1950s: New Shopping Centers and Advertising trends

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders analyze the cultural and social aspects of the 1950s. Using primary source documents, they work together to determine what society was like. They use that information to write an essay about how their information...
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What Can We Do To End Hunger?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars participate in a lesson that is concerned with finding solutions to the problem of hunger in the world. Students write a story with a mythological superhero to illustrate how we all need to be superheros in order to help...
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Vocations: Archdiocese of Cincinnati

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students review virtues lived by the saints. They listen as the teacher describes the process by which a person is named a saint. Students generate a list of gifts and talents, and ways a person could use those talents in a positive,...
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Legal Definitions of Childhood

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how various cultures define childhood. Using the internet, they research how countries around the world determine who is a child. They identify the sources they most relate with as a child.
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Education of the Heart

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders compare and discuss a given set of quotes by Pericles and Cesar Chavez and how they relate to a peaceful society. They respond to a variety of quotes and discuss the animal issue of animal tested cosmetics then discuss...
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Massachusetts Oral History Project on the Great Depression

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders conduct interviews with a relative or a family friend who lived in Massachusetts during the Depression. They write an essay based on the interview that shows an intimate portrayal of how the lives of the individuals who...
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Social Studies: Towne Planning in Tidewater

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners discover how European values dominated colonial life. They also examine the effects of slavery in the Americas. Students compare the planning of their home town with that of colonial Williamsburg. They locate key sites such...
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Pizzazz!...Persona-Poems

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students compose persona-poems. They examine the sample poem and then practice writing their own persona-poem. Students collaborate in small groups and write a poem about their partners.
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Science: 4 X 4

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers generate four statements and four questions based on their current level of understanding of the article from the engage lesson. They evaluate the statements and questions that they have generated and those of their...
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What are the components of war?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify components of war. They connect relationships by developing webs. Students illustrate their comprehension of war in multimedia and produce a dialectical analysis of this illustration.
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One To the Infinite Power

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students identify and discuss individuals who have made a difference and what inspired them to take action, explore strategies for taking action and making a difference, examine global challenges, and practice narrative writing, in form...
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Work And Resistance In America

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate the history and events that surround the industrial revolution. They conduct research using secondary sources. They look reflectively at the history in order to build an idea of how the arts could have influenced the...
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Lesson Plan on Landmines

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students take a look at how landmines are being used all over the world (with specific focus on Cambodia). Students identify the physical and emotional impact of the use of landmines and how the international community is working to...
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Reform in the Late 19th Century

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore, examine, and study the concept of reform in the late 19th century in the United States. They explain the methods that social critics advocated to improve society and examine efforts to help the urban poor found...
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What Causes AIDS?

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders in an ESL classroom use the internet to research the causes of AIDS. As a class, they discuss the topics mentioned in the various websites and determine if they are viable causes for the disease. They create a...
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Leeches and Spiders and Toads, Oh, My! The Emergence of Modern Medicine

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore the basic ideas and beliefs about medicine in the 18th and 19th centuries. They write a news account to be published in a "medical journal" developed by the class. Each "article" in the journal should be dated...
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Salaries

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils are engaged in the study of salaries and how they vary according to different occupations. They conduct research using a variety of resources in order to summarize the earnings potential in the human services field.
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How To Change Your Life In 7 Steps by John Bird

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars read, analyze and discuss the book, "How To Change Your Life In 7 Steps," by John Bird. They evaluate what the author states as one begins to get started, taking each of the steps one by one, learning to change and how to...

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