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Explore cultures from around the world with an engaging pen pal resource. Through a series of classroom activities and written correspondence, children learn about the favoritec pastimes, schooling, geography, and weather that is...

Learners explore their family traditions through interview, art, and creative writing. They take home the included interview sheet to learn more about their ancestral celebrations and use a map to identify where their ancestors came...

Students complete an online geography lesson plan and role play the results.  In this where in the world lesson plan, students create a tableau in pairs and act out their dialogue. Student tableau tells destinations attributes.

Learners write letters to penpals. In this geography/literacy activity, students become penpals with a classroom in England to learn about customs and society across the ocean. Flat Stanley by Will Holton is read aloud, and learners...

Students investigate literacy in other communities and how they can contribute to a smarter society.  In this English language instructional activity, students discuss the difficulties for some countries to obtain reading and writing...

Where did you hear that? is the driving question of a instructional activity designed to shed light on the reliable, and unreliable, news sources covering an election. Through grand conversation and media exploration, scholars examine...

Why did Henry Ford want to invent a car for the masses? Why did Henry Ford locate his factory in Detroit? Why did Henry Ford encourage the idea of a 5-day work week? Young innovators find the answers to these and other question in a unit...

Where is Australia? How is an Australian Christmas from other Christmases around the world? Learners participate in a mini-research project where they discover what an Australian Christmas is like.

How can an American flag be displayed indoors vs. outdoors? What is proper etiquette for handling the flag? The Girls Scouts of the USA have put together a fantastic packet of information with everything you need to know about the...

Have young pumpkin carvers use technology to create a unique pumpkin face and write a short story about the special characteristics of their pumpkin.