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Global Resources: What Will You Do with Your Power?
Students examine the human impact on natural resources. They read and discuss an article, evaluate nations regarding their environmental problem-solving, develop a presidential speech on the environment, and conduct a natural resources...
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Amazing Planet DVD-Video Assignment
In this geography skills worksheet, students watch the National Geographic video "Amazing Planet." Students then respond to 13 short answer questions about the content of the video.
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People of the West
Sixth graders research and identify key facts about men and women of the Westward Movement. They assess the events and reasons that motivated people to move west, hardships they faced and their contributions to the nation. Each student...
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America's Civil Rights Movement
Eleventh graders explore, analyze and study the background to America's Civil Rights Movement through the court system, mass protest, public opinion, political cartoons and legislation. They research Rosa Parks, Brown vs. Board of...
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Six Billion and Beyond
Students consider the idea of a world with Six Billion people and subsequent results and ramifications. Then students will gather data regarding the state of these diverse nations and then create a presentation as a culminating activity.
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Looking for Heroes
Students explain the importance of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March and the long term impact in the US of non violent civic participation.
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Bioweapons - Are You Safe?
Learners investigate bioterrorism and bioweapons as ways to transmit contagious diseases. Student examine the way the US is protecting itself from bioterrorism.
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Conserving Pennsylvania Resources: New Deal Programs
Students analyze the impact of the New Deal programs in Pennsylvania. In this Great Depression lesson, students examine the New Deal programs and their legacies in Pennsylvania. They relate these programs to the preservation of national...
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Traveling the USA
Students simulate the role of travel agents addressing the needs of a foreign family visiting a state in the US. They prepare a presentation and informational sales pitch of a proposed travel itinerary.
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Environment: John Muir Day
Students observe John Muir Day by visiting Websites containing fact sheets, excepted writings, as well as songs, pictures, and educational sources. They use April 21 as a day to reflect on Muir's accomplishment and environmental legacy....
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The Importance of Buffalo Culture to Blackfeet Indians
Students examine importance of buffalo in culture of Blackfeet Indians, and explore types of technology used by Indians to kill large numbers of buffalo. Students research transition of Blackfeet from subsistence economy to capitalist...
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How does it feel? Why is the Civil Rights Movement so Important?
Fifth graders study the Civil War. In this US history activity, 5th graders simulate what life was like during the Civil War by having two groups with one group given more materials than the other group. Students then draw a...
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Preservation of Civil War Battlefields
Eighth graders examine the importance of battlefield preservation. In this US History lesson, 8th graders participate in a virtual tour of battle sites. Students create a map of Gettysburg to see the topography of the battle...
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Gilbert Stuart and Presdidential Portraits
Learners read passages about the context of paintings for artist Gilbert Stuart. In this art history lesson, students study paintings by artist Gilbert Stuart and learn about the context of his art. Learners then complete a presidential...
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Change: Just a Matter of Time
Young scholars analyze the Declaration of Independence and primary sources to explain civil rights. Then, students write a Declaration of Change to express the grievances of African Americans, and their desire to participate fully in the...
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Perseverance
Pupils examine how the failure of Reconstruction led to the systematic passage of Jim Crow laws in states across the South and the negative impact these laws had on the growth and development of the US.
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Women's Contributions to the United States
Betsy Ross, Toni Morrison, Sacajawea, Amelia Earhart, Maya Lin, Sally Ride, Judy Baca. No matter the subject area or the grade level you teach you will find much to value in a manual that focuses on the contributions U.S. women have...
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Leach Out and Touch Someone
Students discuss how groundwater becomes polluted. In groups, they design and create models of groundwater pollution sources. They demonstrate to the class how the water may become contaminated from local and nonlocal pollution sources.
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What is a Community?
Third graders will learn about different aspects of a community in this 11-slide PowerPoint. Different facts and images are displayed on each slide to help give your students a better sense of community. Tip: After viewing this...
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Touchstones
Students locate monuments in their neighborhoods and sketch them. They are shown slides of two modern monuments, the Vietnam Memorial and the Holocaust Monument in Edgewood Park. They read the article in National Geographic, Vol. 167,...
Channel Islands Film
Who Owns the Bones
A study of the history of the Channel Islands, located off the coast of southern California, continues as class members conduct a mock trial to determine which group of stakeholders should have the right to claim the remains of Juan...
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Rock 'N Roll Mount Rushmore
Learners, in groups, gather information about the sculptor Gutzon Borglum and the four presidents he carved in the South Dakota mountain, Mt. Rushmore. Groups create a Rock 'n' Roll President brochure.
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Mt. Whitney to Death Valley
This is an intriguing problem that brings together real-world data, technology, and mathematical problem solving. If visibility wasn't an issue, could you see from the highest point in the lower 48 states, Mt. Whitney, to the lowest...
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Arctic Animals of Alaska
Students explore the natural history of arctic Alaska through lecture and discussion. They write poems and complete research papers about Arctic animals.