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Total English Elementary: Read All About It
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a 4 paragraph passage about a charity fund-raising effort and then respond to 8 short answer questions.
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ESL Conjunctions Activity
In this ESL conjunctions worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences accompanied by pictures, using either and, but or because correctly. Page has a link for audio and HTML code.
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Alphabetical Order Practice
In this alphabetizing activity, students alphabetize groups of 3 words, 15 groups total. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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Happy Birthday!
Students honor African Americans in history. In this celebrating achievements lesson, students plan, design, and implement ways to honor persons in African American history during Black History Month.
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Amoeba Tag
Fourth graders investigate how different organisms reproduce by participating in a Amoeba Tag game. Students work as a team and try to catch each other -- thus "reproducing" amoebas.
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Tennis Shoe Art
Students decorate a pair of tennis shoes. In this art lesson, students use paint to decorate a pair of tennis shoes. Students may also use fabric pens.
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Harry Potter: Upper Grades Activity
Students interpret symbols and metaphors from Harry Potter that refer to real-life political and social issues.
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Using Different Types of Sentences
For this types of sentences worksheet, students use a variety of sentences to make their writing interesting. Students complete three activities to help them with different sentences.
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What is an Adjective?
In this adjective worksheet, students read a definition of adjectives, along with some examples. Worksheet has no associated activities, but is informational only. Worksheet contains a link to additional activities.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: The Great Migration
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Great Migration of African Americans to the Northern and Midwestern states in the early 1900s. Set includes an overview, primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
OpenStax
Open Stax: The Great War 1914 1919: Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
Looks at the demobilization of the American war effort and the impact it had on people's lives, accompanied by the flu pandemic and fears of contagion, race riots, and the Red Scare. Also looks at the 1920 presidential election which was...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Great Algae Race
In a multi-week experiment, student groups gather data from the photobioreactors that they build to investigate growth conditions that make algae thrive best.
Other
About North Georgia: The Great Locomotive Chase
Read the exciting story of Andrews' raiders who stole "The General," which resulted in the Great Locomotive Race in Georgia.
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History Matters: Walter White Considers the Causes of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot
An article by NAACP executive secretary, Walter White, discusses the eight reasons he saw for the Chicago Race Riots in July, 1919. He goes into great detail to support these causes.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Density Rainbow and the Great Viscosity Race
Students explore the densities and viscosities of fluids as they create a colorful 'rainbow' using household liquids. While letting the fluids in the rainbow settle, students conduct 'The Great Viscosity Race,' another short experiment...
Black Past
Black Past: Chicago Race Riot, 1919
This short encyclopedia article recounts the events that led up to the Chicago Race Riot in 1919.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Great Tin Race
This activity is a great way to show distance and time relationships while incorporating charts and graphing. Different sized tins are raced against each other, and data is collected.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Sandburg on Race
This article from the University of Illinois covers the work of Carl Sandburg as a reporter in Chicago during the riots of 1919.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Race Problem, Making of African American Identity: V. 2
A poem, an address, and a painting that illustrate black political struggle in late-nineteenth-century America. This series of resources characterize "the Negro Problem" as "a concrete test of the underlying principles of the great...
University of California
History Project: Chicago Race Riot, 1919
This lesson for high school students explores the race riot in Chicago in the summer of 1919. Students are asked to explain the reasons for the riot and address the questions in the lesson. Included are excerpts from 26 primary source...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Eslarp: Race Riot at East St. Louis, 1917
This chapter from a book about East St. Louis relates the horror of the East St. Louis Massacre where maurading whites fired on African Americans and torched their homes. Read about the aftermath of the massacre and what happened to...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: The East St. Louis Riot
Read about the shameful events and carnage in the targeting of African Americans in the East St. Louis Riot in 1917. This was truly a black mark in race relations in the United States.
Other
New York Public Library: Africana Age: The Civil Rights Movement
This is an extensive review of the Civil Rights movement from the 1940s to the 1960s. Read about the ways African Americans protested discrimination in employment and education over several years. Be sure to click on the images to find...
Digital History
Digital History: The Progressive Era
A good overview of the many social and economic changes that occurred in the United States in the early 20th century. There are hyperlinks to information about the many social reforms, the sad state of race relations at the time, and the...