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The World's Fair of 1893: A Tribute to Agriculture and Advertising

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify connections between agriculture, advertising, and mail order catalogues during 1890s as expressed at World's Fair of 1893. Students interpret photographic exhibit and discuss how reactions of rural fair visitors...
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Pastimes

For Teachers K - 4th
Students define and discuss personal pastimes, listen to the story Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, discuss owling as rural pastime, demonstrate comprehension by writing responses to story, and discuss how climate and geography often determine...
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On Sunday There Might Be Americans Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars examine the life of a rural Niger boy. They discover his relationship with foreigners and indigenous peoples. They read excerpts from a former Peace Corps volunteer.
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Communities

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine the similarities and differences between rural, suburban, and urban communities. They read about type of community in their social studies textbook, analyze the differences between Tokyo and Chicago, and complete a chart...
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Reading Multicultural Literature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read several fictional pieces which examine issues of urbanization and rural cultures. They discuss how the place a person lives affects the kind of person they become.
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Weathering Rates

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students calculate weathering rates from tombstone weathering data. Atmospheric (and precipitation) chemistry determines the rate of weathering for marble tombstones. They are shown data from a rural and an unrban cemetery, and are...
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Slavery in Virginia

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders assess primary sources to analyze the effects plantation life and slavery had on Colonial Virginia. They study the issues of slavery, rural life, movements, colonization and revolution. Each student makes predictions,...
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Prairie Voices

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders compare and contrast a one room school house in Iowa in the past with how they go to school today. In this school lesson plan, 5th graders read about rural families and the controversies that they endured in the time of one...
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Part of it All

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students take a closer look at the organization of newspapers. In this journalism lesson, students take virtual tours of newspapers and complete a newspaper puzzle handout. Students then compare the layout of weekly rural newspapers to...
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Rural Voices Through Photography

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research the history of the Depression particularly in the ways it was documented by photography. Then they take their own pictures in the style of one of the best documentarians, Dorothea Lange.
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Boundaries

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Pupils identify and analyze the boundaries which exist between urban and rural, wildness and country and among rural areas, country, town, and city. Students actively participate in planning, obtaining materials, setting goals and...
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Organizer
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Living in the City: Brainstorming Activity

For Students 4th - 8th
In this city vs. rural living worksheet, students consider the pros and cons of living in each place as they record their thoughts and ideas.
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Planning Writing: Making Notes for the Accessing Books Around the World Informative Paragraph

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Encourage your young writers to thoughtfully plan and organize their work. First, model how this is done and vocalize your thought process as you work. Next, create a class list of strategies that they can use during independent writing...
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Interactive
Royal Society of Chemistry

Pollutants in Air (14-16)

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Polluted air contains more than 200 chemicals that age the skin, causing urban women to appear 10 percent older than their rural peers. An interesting interactive connects air pollutants and related data. Scholars work their way through...
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Teaching Guide: Exploring To Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, considered by many to be a seminal piece of American literature, contains many complex literary themes that carry through United States history. Use a series of discussion questions and classroom...
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Writing A Storybook

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a storybook using vocabulary from the topic "urban and rural life". They write about past events in a children's story. They present their story to the class at an author's tea.
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Pets Around the World

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students communicate via e-mail with other students to learn about pets, animals of interest , and geography from different parts of the world. Vocabulary focuses on rural, urban, and suburban areas.
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The British Origins of Industrialism

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders brainstorm the Industrial Revolution and how it changed the lives of people. They describe rural life in preindustrial Britain. They identify the factors that allowed Britian to become the first industrialized nations.
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The Flow of Women's Work: How Cultures are Alike and Different?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine gender roles in various cultures. In this flow of women's work lesson, students compare water related work in rural Africa to that in their own households. 
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Beethoven's Sixth Symphony and the Expression of Feeling through the Arts

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Here is an activity used originally to finish off a unit on country life and nature. It requires learners to have a basic understanding of harvest, rural life, and autumn. They'll use what they know to construct dance movements showing...
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The Importance of Trees in the Rural Area: Planting a Snowfence

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of living snowfences. In this tree activity, students read, "The Living Tree," brochure and discuss the ecological benefits of planting trees to create living snowfences. Learners draw plans for planting...
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A Second Visit To Old Sturbridge Village-The Story Tour

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars conduct research on 1830s families and early New England culture. They conduct research on the Old Sturbridge Village website, participate in an online chat with a costumed interpreter, and continue to develop possible...
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Scarcity of Land Throughout the World and in Hawaii

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss the importance of "land." They review the four types of land classification--urban, rural, agricultural and conservation--and participate in an activity involving an apple that demonstrates the use of land in...
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Farmland

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students construct a display that shows how a rural landscape can change and suggest solutions. They discover how loss of land will affect water supplies, the world's food supply, and other issues. They interview leaders to find out what...

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