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Setting Boundaries

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the different relationships they are involved in. In this communication lesson, students discuss the importance of setting boundaries in every relationship. They cite the negative and positive consequences when people...
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Respect For Oneself And Others

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate how to give respect to themselves and others. They consider how respect is part of how we treat others and consider personal boundaries. Students discuss how one should handle the situation of being asked to...
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Controversial Issues

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Hot topics are often engaging and can get heated. High School learners engage in an academic discussion were they must learn to engage with a person holding a different view than their own. They practice discussing different opinions...
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Growing With Others, Kids on the Grow!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students participate in an after school program that promotes accepting differences, self-motivation, teamwork, leadership roles, personal safety and self-responsibility, family unity and recognizing the characteristics of good...
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Growing on My Own, Kids on the Grow

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in an after school program that promotes critical thinking, concern for others, recognizing differences, accepting differences, self-motivation and personal safety. They cover how kids develop, expressing different...
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Investigating Stereotypes

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students study 'stereotype' in literature and life and give examples. they provide examples from life or literature on the origins and impact of stereotypes. they 3. Cite 3 - 5 individual African Americans from literature or life who...
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US National Archives

Documented Rights Educational Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How have groups struggled to have their unalienable rights recognized in the United States? Acting as a research team for the Human Rights Council of the United Nations, your young historians will break into groups to research...
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The borders of Europe. Geographically location or cultural artifice?

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders discuss where they regard the boundaries of Europe to be. They raise their awareness that "Europe" may be more of a cultural construct than geographical defined continent.
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European Union Role Play

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers compare and contrast the ways in which people and goods move between European countries prior to and post European Union creation. Students simulate product movement through four different countries prior to the creation...
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Geography

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars work together in groups to research the cultural groups of West Africa, Sudan and the Guinea Coast. They compare and contrast each culture and locate the political and cultural boundaries on a map.
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Racism and the Box

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine racism and how it relates to self-deception. They identify the effect of racism on society. They reflect on the lesson by writing a paragraph about discrimination and racism.
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The Southeast Anatolia Project

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This resource is amazing. It is a full project including teacher notes, handouts, procedure, and worksheets. It introduces learners to the GAP project, a social environmental group working to bring irrigation, assistance, and increased...
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Multicultural Activities

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
From catching stars developed by African pygmy tribes to chop stix pick-up or the Hanukkah dreidel, use this list of diverse multicultural activities to help your learners draw connections to unique cultures of the...
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National Park Service

What Can We Do?

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Motivate young conservationists to stand up and make a change. After learning about the efforts in Cascade Nation Park to reduce carbon emissions in order to preserve the wilderness, students work in groups creating action plans for...
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Jazz in America

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore Free Jazz and Fusion by answering questions and listening to music.
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Elbow Room - Exploring Population Density

For Students 6th - 12th
In this population worksheet, students click on the links and research the internet about population, land, and government. Students answer 16 short answer questions including making spreadsheets.
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Rights and Responsibilities: Making the Connection

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the Bill of Rights. In this philanthropy lesson plan, students identify the responsibilities that accompany the 5 basic guaranteed rights in the Bill of Rights. Students interview a community member regarding basic rights.
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Elementary Mapping Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars build a classroom community. In this peer interaction lesson, students participate in a sociogram activity that requires them to socially interact with peers that normally they do not interact with. Young scholars write...
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The Right Ideas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the Bill of Rights and explain how non-profit organizations take care of those rights. In this Bill of Rights lesson, students work in groups to look at the rights that are included in the Bill of Rights. They...
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Having Beary Much Fun with Core Knowledge

For Teachers Pre-K
Students participate in a teddy bear themed unit to improve their social and reading skills along with other core knowledge subjects. In this social and reading skills lesson, students complete 8 units of activities to learn about social...
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Political Geography of Europe

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders listen to a lecture that traces the political geography of Europe from 814 through 1997. They incorporate these themes into a research project on Western Europe.
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C3 Teachers: u.s. History Module: Did Founders Want Government to Work? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive learning module on the system of government established by the founders that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and primary source materials, followed by a summative performance task....