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Illustration Planner
One way to help your pupils more fully understand an idea from the text they are reading is to require them to draw or sketch the concept. This page provides some space to plan the details your students want to include in their...
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Location, Location, Location: Civilization's Ultimate Advantage
Young scholars discover how geographical advantages, locational and regional, ultimately led to western Eurasian societies' disproportionate accounting of world power and innovation. They utilize a workbook which can be downloaded within...
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Bird Interdisciplinary Possibilities
Students explore birds, their territory, breeding, and seasonal movement. They research and collect information on birds through writing letters to ornithologists, reading in books, comparing web sites, and observing pictures. Students...
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The Modernization of Seoul
High schoolers explore the history of Seoul, South Korea. In this Seoul lesson plan, high schoolers read and analyze handouts regarding the political and social history of the city of Seoul. High schoolers collaborate in small groups and...
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Community Ripple
Originally designed to be used along with a text that is not included, this plan contains a graphic organizer and word guessing game to help readers use decoding strategies to gain new vocabulary. A set of questions relating to community...
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Entiéndelo en Conjunto: ESCRIBE
Write with a purpose! Get your Spanish class to practice explaining a topic to a specific audience. Either assign them a topic, or let them choose. Then, give them this sheet to help them plan their explanation. They answer three...
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Alike and Different
Second graders listen to a book about how farms feed the world. They discuss elements of rural life. They listen to a story about the suburbs and discuss elements specific to a suburban community. They listen to a story about city...
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Advanced Paragraph Correction #9
For this advanced paragraph correction worksheet, students read a text about urban planning. Students correct the errors in 8 sentences by selecting the right answer from 5 possible choices.
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Multimedia Urban Stories: "This is who I am"
Young scholars create a photo essay. In this lesson encouraging self-expression, students view and reflect upon photo essays. Then, they go out into the community and create their own photo essay complete with captions. Young scholars...
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Modern Art Lesson Plans
Students explore the history and examples of Modern Art. In this Modern Art instructional activity, students read background information about Modern Art and a biography of Andy Warhol. Students complete a criticism and aesthetics, art...
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Robert Indiana Biography, Activities, and Lesson Plans
Students analyze Pop art and the work of Robert Indiana. In this Pop art lesson, students read about the history of Pop art and a biography of Robert Indiana. Students complete a criticism and aesthetics activity, create their own Pop...
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Planning My Vacation Online
Pupils use a variety of resources to decide on a vacation destination. They locate three points of interest, a hotel, and two restaurants at their destination.Students obtain driving directions for their trip, create a trip budget, and...
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Lesson Plan on Indigenous Children
Pupils explore indigenous, traditional and tribal cultures--their rights, protections by law, and obstacles as a people. In groups, they form their own activist groups to contribute to the global effort to preserve indigenous cultures.
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"Street Fight" Lesson Plan
Students watch a film which examine the 2002 Newark mayoral election. They experience the electoral process from the viewpoint of a politician.
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Writing Fiction lesson plan
Young scholars compose a opening paragraph that sets the scene and foreshadows events. In this writing fiction instructional activity, students write an opening paragraph about a mugging and describe the scene in a way that...
Global Oneness Project
Relocating Residents: The Impact of Housing on Community
Sama Maydani and Sarah Kuck's film, Even the Walls, that explores the benefits and drawbacks of gentrification in downtown Seattle, asks viewers to consider how houses, apartment buildings, and outdoor spaces can be designed to build a...
Virginia Department of Education
Succession
The final lesson in a two-part series prompts scholars to create newspaper articles and succession events. Applying their knowledge of the ecosystem and the past examples of succession, they predict what will happen in the future...
Chicago Botanic Garden
Personal Choices and the Planet
How big is your footprint? Activity three culminates the series by having groups complete carbon footprint audits with people in their schools and/or around the districts. Groups then gather their data, create a presentation including...
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Identifying Birds
Eighth graders identify and name birds in their school yard by comparing and contrasting pictures of 12 common birds in the Phoenix metro area using the Ecology Explorers Protocol. They formulate questions based on observations that lead...
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What's The Flow?
Learners examine urban runoff and identify peak flows. They examine causes for different flow rates, and complete worksheets and a graph.
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Progress Amidst Prejudice: Portraits of African Americans in Missouri, 1880-1920
Young scholars explore and analyze a database of historical portraits of an African American family of the late 1800's. They trace the migration of one of the African Americans as he/she migrates toward urban areas.
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Changing Lives
Students compare and contrast rural lifestyles and urban lifestyles. They describe pictures and postcards of various settings, list adjectives that describe their lifestyle, list the advantages of living in rural and urban areas, read a...
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Growth of a City
Students evaluate aerial photographs of Beverly Hills taken in 1923 and 1932, and examine the effects of rapid growth of a region. They discuss the needs of city planning, compare the two photographs, and answer discussion questions.
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Glasgow - a case study 4
Students look at the inner-city and housing in Glasgow today and consider how the city has been redeveloped over time. They answer a GCSE question using Glasgow as the case-study. Students draw a timeline from the 1950s to the present...
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