Boycott for free trade! An eye-opening instructional activity explores the non-importation movement created by American colonists in response to the Stamp and Sugar Acts. Scholars specifically look at the impact the boycott had on...

"Sí, se puede!" Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta believed organizing farm workers and changing their working conditions were possible. Scholars examine provisions of the Bracero Program, videos, and the United Farm Workers' (UFW) work....

"The Dinner Party" is the anchor text in a activity designed to encourage writers to use sensory details in their stories. After brainstorming descriptive words and phrases for the five senses, class members read Mona Gardner's...

Scholars explore the question of whether labor unions are the agents of change as they continue reading César Chávez's 1984 speech, "Address to the Commonwealth Club of California." They discuss rhetoric in Chávez's speech and discover...

Students participate in a crab soccer game. Points are accumulated by earning a letter for each goal until a vocabulary word is spelled correctly.

Middle schoolers research the growth of unions due to issues related to the Lattimer Massacre. They research primary source documents and create posters, skits and role plays.

Young scholars investigate boycott as a way to stand up and fight injustice. In this Teaching Tolerance lesson, students research consumer boycott movements and write about their impressions.

In this jobs word search puzzle, students identify terms dealing with jobs and employment. Examples include salary, employee, strike, blue collar and interview. A list of 44 words are provided to assist the students in their search.

In this no sex please, we're British worksheet, students, with a partner, come up with five adjectives to describe someone, decide if eighteen statements or true or false and strike up a conversation over three internal questions.

In this US History worksheet, students locate and identify various vocabulary terms related to a particular period in US History. There are 15 words/phrases located in the puzzle.

In this baseball coloring worksheet, learners examine a black line drawing of a batter who has just missed the ball. Students color the picture that is labeled "baseball".

Students explore whether fish get electrocuted when the lightning strikes a lake.

Learners examine a situation of striking workers in Los Angeles. They answer questions related to the story. They also interview people involved if time allows.

Learners participate in investments. They purchase property for future financial return or benefit. They discover a stock strategy in which you own stock and write (sell) a call at the next strike price above the current stock value.

Students use hockey sticks to strike pucks into a goal, between two cones, or into another target (e.g., bowling pins). They use white rolled up socks as snowballs to throw at a variety of targets that are on the floor or on the wall .

Students investigate the formation of rain. They experiment by boiling water in a tea kettle and placing ice cubes and water in a pan. They hold the pan of water over the steaming spout so that the steam strikes the bottom and sides of...

Students practice using paddles to hit objects. In this striking skills lesson, students use wooden paddles to round up balloon farm animals without touching the balloons with their hands.

Students write their own choose-a-plot book. They develop skills in creating plot structure and think through a logical line of story action. They invent characters with striking physical and psychological attributes.

Eighth graders measure strike and dip of given land features and explain the difference between them. They also look at rock and mineral samples for indentification, along with calculating the density. Finally, information is analyzed...

Learners strike a tuning fork and dip it in water. They sprinkle cereal flakes on a drum, than tap the top of the drum. Students stretch a rubber band between two fingers and pluck it; stretch the elastic farther and pluck it again. Then...

Eighth graders watch the "Earth, the Environment & Beyond" video on earthquakes. Take notes and give an oral summary. They build a working, two dimensional model of a strike-slip, thrust, or normal fault.

Sixth graders will simulate the spread of a virus such as HIV through a population by "sharing" (but not drinking) the water in a plastic cup with several classmates. Although invisible, the water in a few of the cups will already be...

Tenth graders analyze works from the period of the Industrial Revolution in England and identify the cultural values depicted and inferred that paved the way for the Industrial Revolution to occur at this time. They create captions that...

Learners research one of the many urban race riots in U.S. history, from the New York City riots during the Civil War to the "Red Summer of 1919" or the hate-strikes of 1943. They present their findings in the form of a newspaper's front...