National Wildlife Federation
Yesterday: Our Energy Needs Over Time
How has our relationship to energy changed over time? An engaging exploration challenges learners to create a timeline showing human energy needs and uses over time. Scholars review what timelines are, choose a 50-year period in history...
Social Media Toolbox
Twitter Time
Tweet all about it! Junior journalists explore the Twittersphere to determine its effectiveness as a news broadcasting tool in the 12th installment of the 16-part Social Media Toolbox. Participants follow and record their observations of...
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Organizing A Corporation And Paying A Dividend
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the establishment of a corporation. They apply accounting principles to different situations in order to make payments on a dividend. Students also investigate the basic accounting cycle.
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Accountable Terms
Students examine concepts, terms and organizations necessary to explain the basis of a speech by President Bush on corporate responsibility. They read and analyze the speech.
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Concepts of Class
For this Concepts of Class worksheet, students answer ten questions about issues and theories of class, social mobility, and social stratification.
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Development Quiz
In this social psychology worksheet, students complete a 10 item multiple choice quiz on the physical and moral developmental stages of humans.
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States of Consciousness
In this social psychology worksheet, students answer 10 multiple choice question quiz on states of consciousness, REM and sleeping.
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Memory
In this social psyhology worksheet, students complete a 10 multiple choice quiz on topics related to memory. They identify the different types of amnesia and reasons why people forget.
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Emotion
In this social psychology worksheet, students answer 10 multiple choice review questions on emotion and theories related to it.
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The Role of a Plantation Mistress
Middle schoolers investigate the role of a plantation mistress. In this American history lesson, students examine the household accounts kept by Thomas Jefferson's wife. Middle schoolers decide what Martha Wayles...
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What Makes a Good Judge?
Students define qualities that should be considered when selecting judge, evaluate costs and benefits of two methods of selecting and retaining judges, decide whether methods provide for judicial independence
and judicial accountability,...
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Voyage to the New World
Young scholars examine the exploration of the New World. They write a descriptive account of the first encounter between Europeans and Native Americans, analyze and label maps, plot Columbus's journey on a map, and write a chapter summary.
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Nobody Really Won
Learners watch a video on "Custer's Last Stand" written with the perspective of the soldier. They listen to the story of "Red Hawk's Last Account" to become aware of the Native American's perspective. In groups, students create their own...
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Zen and the Art of Murder
Students describe the importance of citizen involvement in the judicial system. They play the role of a witness to a crime scene by watching the video clip. Students discuss how differing eyewitness accounts can affect a police...
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The United States During World War II
Fourth graders comprehend what social and economics effect World War II on the home front of The United States, specifically in Texas. They are asked to react to rationing or a World War. Students complete the "Home Front: the United...
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Father Knows Best
Students recognize that history describes events and people of other times and places identifying George Washington by historical account. They describe everyday life in the present and in the past and begin to recognize that things...
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Jamestown Fort: Finding History
Students identify artifacts discovered from the exploration of the Jamestown fort in order to help them create a short fictional account about the lives of Jamestown's first inhabitants. In this history lesson, students research the...
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Gladiators: Rome's Violent Past
Ninth graders examine the role of public entertainment in Ancient Rome. In this World History lesson, 9th graders imagine themselves as a participant at a gladiator game at the Roman Colosseum. Students write a personal...
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Design Your Own Suburb
Students view and discuss urban and suburban scenes; and list the features of their ideal town and discuss whether these features can be found in cities and suburbs. They draw mental maps of a city and a suburb and brainstorm and list...
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Inquiring Minds
Students participate in a "fishbowl" discussion to address the notions of government and intelligence accountability for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. They write letters to the President of the United...
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Athabaskan Migration & Bering Strait
Students study Athabaskan migration patterns and the Bering Strait Land Bridge theory. They investigate the importance of the expansion of trade and compare the differences between American Indian oral tradition accounts of origin and...
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Preparing a Louisiana Meal -- A Cloze Activity
In this Louisiana foodways activity, middle schoolers give an accurate account of a meal preparation they observe in the classroom by filling in 39 blanks in an 8 paragraph account.
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The Home Front (Circa 1863)
Learners interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. In this American Civil War lesson, students examine sources and then write personal accounts of the war.
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The Cherokee: The Principal People (Ani-Yunwiya), 1700 - 1838
Young scholars read passages and research the Cherokee Tribe and write an account of a typical day as a Cherokee Native American. In this Cherokee lesson plan, students listen to Cherokee music, read Cherokee passages, fill out...