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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Protecting Our Planet Bingo: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week children will learn that they can make choices that can reduce their impacts on the land, water, air, and...
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Economic Incentives in Our Community

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Boston Public Schools Capstone Project

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The (Boston Public Schools) Capstone Project is an opportunity for students to engage in rigorous project-based learning. It is an opportunity for our students to develop skills to be life, career, and college-ready in a culturally...
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Other

Learning for Justice: Part of a Community Online

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson focuses on helping young children learn to participate in different kinds of digital communities. Students will solidify and work on what they know about being part of any community.
Professional Doc
Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Educators Pack for Online Safety Awareness

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The internet provides educators with a great tool for teaching young people, communicating with others, and sharing successes with the wider community. In order to make the most out social media, technology and the internet, we have put...
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Center For Civic Education

Center for Civic Education: What Responsibilities Accompany Our Rights?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Suppose the government does everything it can to protect people's rights. Is this enough? Will their rights be protected? Do we have any responsibility to protect not only our own rights, but each other's as well? This lesson looks at...
Unit Plan
Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: For 14 18 Year Olds

For Students 9th - 10th
Older teenagers may rely on the internet even more for their friendships and entertainment. Use our activities to help them manage their online lives. We've selected a couple of activities from across our resources to help older teens...
Primary
Rice University

Rice University: Focus on Your Community

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A resource page for teachers and students with lesson plans and varied resources to study your local community.
Lesson Plan
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Health Community Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Power to the People

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Richard Peck

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
What do you know about Richard Peck's life and work as an author? Use this informative site to learn more about this young adult author and to find resources for lesson plans.
Activity
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Prominent Person Award

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will review the scenario and resources to select a person or group from the state, community, building, etc. to nominate for the Prominent Person Award and create a multi-media presentation of the nominee.
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University of Nebraska Omaha

Ec Ed Web: Virtual Economics Web Companion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Virtual Economics Web Companion for K-12 economics and social studies teachers was created by the National Council on Economic Education. A wide variety of educational materials and lesson plans can be accessed through this site....
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: A Moo Ving Experience

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students gain an understanding about non-profit organizations and the role they play in our economy. Students then learn about a relatively new type of fundraising effort, known as CowParade, for non- profit organizations that has been...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Whose Streets?: Lesson Plan Clips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson provides a framework for critical analysis of current and historic race relations in America through the lens of the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, Jr., a young unarmed black man, by white police officer Darren Wilson in...
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Through 10 lessons and more than 20 hands-on activities, students are introduced to the concept of an environment and the many interactions within it. As they learn about natural and human-made environments, as well as renewable and...
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Poems: Neighborhoods and Communities [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a resource containing poems and teaching ideas that focus on the concept of community. There are two pages of teaching ideas as well as two reproducible pages of poems for students.