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Cause-Effect Relationships in Alaska's American Period, 1867-present

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss that history is a series of interrelated events, processes, and movements. They discuss what criteria make a good cause-effect statement.
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Surveying During a Basketball Game

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders conduct a survey at a high school basketball game. They compile and present the data as histograms or bar graphs.
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Career Portfolio

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders set realistic career goals. and become familiar with career opportunities and skills necessary to be successful. Students create a career portfolio containing three career opportunities.
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The Olympic Dream: East Asia

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in research in order to establish a context for comprehending the historical event of the Olympic Games being held in China. They use the internet and other resources to find information.
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ESL Reading Comprehension-"Gang Violence Increases in Sao Paolo"

For Students 6th - 8th
In this ESL reading comprehension worksheet, middle schoolers read or listen to an article, then complete a variety of warm up and before/after reading activities. Homework suggestions are also given.
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Deerfield Debates Its Future: The Colonial Revival

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze why the Colonial Revival came as a response to cultural changes caused by technological development, industrial growth, and changing populations in Deerfield and the Connecticut River Valley.
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Researching Researchers

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use accessible technology to explore active research projects currently taking place, choose a current research project to study and create a presentation using the information that they have gathered.
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Letters to Home

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders research historical events and everyday life in Texas in 1836-1837. They write a letter using Mr. Mitchell's perspective.
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Mapping My Community

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders are introduced to GPS technology. They complete fieldwork as they visit a specific area of their community to identify and map types of land use in the surveyed area. They use the collected data to create a digital map.
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Horatio's Drive:Activity Two

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students experience the historic value of personal letters by examining those Horatio Jackson's sent to his wife, Bertha, as well as ones they compose, and then write letters from Bertha to Horatio that reflect her day-to-day life.
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Coping With War: Diversions in a Century of Global Conflict

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders analyze photographs representing leisure and transition during a global conflict. Working in groups, 11th graders review pictures from a web exhibit. The group completes a graphic organizer analyzing the photograph for...
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Candy Land Math

For Teachers K
Students order numbers and sets of objects from 0 through 10 and organize and interpret information collected from the immediate environment. They read and interpret graphs usin real objects and the computer. Finally, students sort a...
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Breaking News English: World Healthcare System for the Rich

For Students 6th - 11th
In this English worksheet, students read "World Healthcare System for the Rich," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Narrative Prompt

For Students 8th Standards
Reading about history is nothing like experiencing it firsthand. Encourage your eighth graders to do the next best thing with a historical narrative prompt, in which they describe the experience of a first-time traveler on the...
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How to Read a Topographic Map

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners investigate the use of topographic maps.
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Couriers in the Inca Empire: Getting Your Message Across

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore how the Inca communicated across the bast stretches of their mountain realm.
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Using Primary Documents: "Agreeable to His Genius"

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students use primary sources to reconstruct events in the life of John Partidge Bull.
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America's First Pictures

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders visit the Smithsonian website to search online for early photo archives about life in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Change Happens

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners research different inventions that have changed over time. They use a comic strip format to illustrate how an area has changed. They share their comic strips with the rest of the class.
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Scootermania

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils explore how to work cooperatively with a partner.
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City of Littleton Government: History of Transportation: Littleton, Colorado

For Students 9th - 10th
Incredible history of transportation in Littleton, Colorado that explains the many ways in which transportation impacted the culture.
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National Museum of American History: Transforming the Waterfront: San Francisco and Oakland, Ca.

For Students 9th - 10th
Containers-steel boxes stuffed with goods-and the systems for transferring them between ships, trucks, and trains transformed commercial shipping. Containerization streamlined freight handling and slashed the cost of transporting cargoes...
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The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute: The Case Files: History of Transportation Technologies

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of transportation technologies, and the individuals who led the way in developing and advancing new modes of transportation.
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The Communication Oriented Society

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative site that explores the changes that society and global communications are incurring as communication technology develops and infiltrates the global community.