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European Exploration, Trade and Colonization
Students complete many activities including mapping, reading books, and Internet research to learn about European exploration. In this European lesson plan, students study geographical mapping, trade, and colonization.
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Day of the Dead Lesson Plans
Day of the Dead lesson plans can provide a meaningful exploration of the holiday and its importance.
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Magnificent Mexico
Students complete a variety of activities in a unit about the art, culture, and traditions of Mexico. They read books about the Day of the Dead, create a skeleton puppet, and create a traditional Mexican tissue paper cutting. Students...
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Mardi Gras Character Carnival
Students create Mardi Gras floats from shoeboxes to illustrate the Six Pillars of Character. In this character education lesson, students discuss Mardi Gras and famous celebrations. Students make floats out of shoeboxes to illustrate the...
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Retell the Story
Students identify bias in books. In this character education instructional activity, students read a text and discuss any gender or racial bias which may be present. Students retell and rewrite the story in a fair way.
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Breaking News English: World Toilets
In this world toilets learning exercise, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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South America Map Quiz
In this online interactive geography quiz worksheet, students examine the map that includes all of South America's countries. Students identify the 13 countries in 2 minutes.
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Hershey and the World: The 5 Themes of Geography and Google Earth
Students invsestigate cocoa producing regions in the world. In this geography skills lesson, students examine how the 5 themes of geography affect the Hershey Chocolate Company as they compare and contrast cocoa production in America,...
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Organizaton of American States Project
Students discover the Organization of American States by researching currents issues in those countries. They create a PowerPoint presentation and share with the class.
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Paulo Coelho
For this famous person worksheet, learners read a passage about Paulo Coelho and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and...
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The Roles of the President
Students list the many jobs of the U.S. president and explain the reasons for them. They compare current and past roles of the chief executive of the United States.
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Immigration in the United States
Students examine the reasons why people leave their country to live in another. In groups, they use print and electronic resources to answer questions about where immigrants came from during different time periods and advice given to...
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South America Commercials
Students create commercials that promote travel to South American countries in this middle-level instructional activity for the Social Studies classroom. The instructional activity suggests using educational software including MS Word,...
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Gemstones Video
In this gemstones instructional activity, students answer sixteen questions from the video about gemstones. Questions include the types of gemstones, the colors of gemstones and the meaning of gemstones and birthstones.
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Cultural Calendar
Students design their own cultural calendar. In this calendar making instructional activity, students decide on a culture for a calendar theme and discuss how calendars differ from the US calendar. Students create their own calendar...
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ESL: Passive Voice Activity
In this ESL passive voice worksheet, students put sentences into passive voice with 50 total. A link to audio and additional resources is given.
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South American Capitals Quiz
In this online interactive geography quiz activity, students respond to 12 identification questions about the capital cities of South America. Students have 4 minutes to complete the quiz.
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Country Superlatives Quiz
In this online interactive geography quiz worksheet, students respond to 20 identification questions regarding world country comparisons. Students have 4 minutes to complete the quiz.
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Pyrites
Students examine the mineral pyrite and discover the differences between it and gold. In this mineral lesson students identify minerals using their common properties.
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Regions of South America
Students explore facts about South America in the four lessons of this unit. Booklets are created from the materials produced as the class delves into the topic.
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Central And South America And Their Ancient Civilizations
Fifth graders listen to lectures on the ancient civilizations of the Aztecs, Incas and Mayans. They construct a mask base and then decorate it in thirds with symbols meaningful to each of the three cultures being studied.
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'European Exploration, Conquest, and Trade
Fifth graders examine the motives, progress and results of the European exploration and conquest of Asia, Africa and the West Indies from the 15th to the 17th centuries. They use maps to trace spice routes and research the role of spices...
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Dig Magazine Archeology Quiz #103
In this Dig Magazine archeology quiz, learners answer 12 multiple choice questions complementing the May 2009 issue. Page contains answer and additional resources link.
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Breaking News English: International Car Free Day
In this English learning exercise, students read "International Car Free Day," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.