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\nThe Greensboro Sit-Ins\n

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\nImagine an old 1960s diner. There's a long, L-shaped counter top and classic diner stools covered in vinyl dotting the counter space. Sounds like your typical diner, doesn't it? A piece of this diner now sits in The Smithsonian. Why?...\n
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\nCivil Rights Movement: Sit-Ins\n

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\nPart of the protests of the Civil Rights Movement were small scale sit-ins at lunch counters. This form of on-the-ground activism is the focus of a C-SPAN resource that includes four video-clips about the sit-ins by pupils at a lunch...\n
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\nDBQuest: The Nashville Sit-In Movement\n

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\nWhat was it like to be a part of the sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement? Learners consider the question and whether the protests were effective using an online documents-based investigation. The program allows for virtual...\n
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\nStaged Sit-in\n

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\nPupils watch a PowerPoint presentation that includes pictures of a sit-in and participate in a simulated sit-in.  In this sit-in instructional activity, students perform a sit-in skit based on The Civil Rights Movement for...\n
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\nThe Greensboro Sit-Ins: A Continuing Tradition of Nonviolent Protest\n

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\nStudents watch a video about nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement. They discuss and write about the Greensboro sit-ins while deciding the effectiveness of this type of protest.\n
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\nOn This Day: Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-In\n

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\nMore than an iconic image, the picture of young people sitting at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., to protest segregation and Jim Crow laws also sparked a new phase of the civil rights movement. Video clips, including activists,...\n
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\nHow Fast are You Moving Right Now?\n

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\nDid you know that when you are sitting in your easy chair, you may be moving up to 1000 miles per hour depending on what part of the planet you are sitting on? Consider relative speed by watching this moving video. Boggle brains in your...\n
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\nSitting Down To Stand Up For Democracy\n

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\nBoycotts and bus rides, sit-ins and speeches. The focus of this amazing resource is on those people who were willing to put themselves at risk to take a stand for their belief in equal rights for all. A must-have for your curriculum...\n
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\nHow Do Crystals Form?\n

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\nOnce again, a teacher is videotaped while lecturing his class when describing how crystals form and grow. It feels like you're sitting in a college classroom and taking a lecture from a very good instructor. His speaking style is...\n
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\nBig Bird Wants To Whistle\n

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\nWhile sitting in the park, Big Bird recites a Language Arts poem about all of the things that can whistle. It turns out that everything can whistle except Big Bird.\n
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\nUnderstanding Probability\n

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\nYoung scholars investigate probability. They will define probability as the likelihood of an event occurring. Then, they determine the probability of sitting in a particular seat on a plane. They also set up ratios of various seating...\n
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\nAfrican American History: Lunch Counter Closed\n

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\nYoung historians investigate and evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies the Civil Rights Movement used to end segregation in the United States. After watching an video interview with Carl Matthews and Bill Stevens who participated...\n
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\nBreaking the Code: Actions and Songs of Protest\n

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\nEzell Blair, Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil changed history. Their sit-in at the lunch counter of the Woolworths in Greensboro, North Carolina on February 1, 1960 became a model for the nonviolent protests that...\n
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\nSocratic Seminars in English Class\n

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\nWhat is a Socratic Seminar? Discover this type of discussion and it functions. Split the class into two groups with Group A sitting in an inner circle and Group B in an outer circle. Each person in Group B is assigned to a person in...\n
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\nCounting Circles\n

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\nHere is another learning game that will engage your kindergartners and support them with their counting fluency. Forming a circle where everyone faces inward, choose a counting sequence (counting frontward or backward) with no more than...\n
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\nMomentum Machine\n

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\nIf you have a rotating office chair in your classroom, you can have physics pupils participate in this simple, yet effective demonstration of angular momentum. One partner sits in the chair, arms outstretched, holding heavy weights. The...\n
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\nThe Martian Chronicles: Fishbowl Discussion\n

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\nRay Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles provides the text for a fishbowl activity. Class members to sit in concentric circles, with the center circle discussing the topics from the book, and the outer circle observing the...\n
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\nThe Concept of Diversity in World Literature Lesson 9: Debating Imperialism\n

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\nTo gain an understanding of Imperialism, class members read Rudyard Kipling's poem, \"The White Man's Burden\" and Mark Twain's essay, \"To the Person Sitting in Darkness.\" Groups compare these perceptions of non-white cultures with the...\n
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\nBell Ringer: Importance of the Supreme Court\n

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\nBell Ringers that set the right tone for a lesson can be hard to design. Launch a study of the Supreme Court with a video has justices that revealing how they decide what cases to hear, how they determine their rulings, and even why the...\n
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\nSetting Expectations for Science and Engineering Projects\n

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\nWhat is science? Sitting in a whole group discussion, scholars first share their ideas on science and how to conduct investigations. They learn about the steps for scientific inquiry and experimentation. Once finished, individuals then...\n
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\nCivil Rights: What Made Nonviolent Protest Effective during the Civil Rights Movement?\n

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\nSit-ins and boycotts, marches and speeches, songs and demonstrations were hallmarks of nonviolent protest of the civil rights movement. Young scholars research primary and secondary source documents to determine what made nonviolent...\n
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\nFrench 101: A Musical Introduction\n

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\nBonjour! Comment ça-va? Introduce your language learners to French by playing the song \"Parce Qu'on Vient de Loin.\" They attempt to describe what the song says and learn some basic French greetings like bonjour, au revoir, je m'appelle,...\n
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\nElmo's Bus: Part One\n

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\nTo show little ones the difference between front and back, Elmo gets in a cardboard bus. He sits in the front of the bus and then in the back.\n
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\nDenver's Brown Cloud - Cool Science Experiment\n

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\nWhy does a brown cloud occur in Denver at a certain time of the year? When warm air is higher in the atmosphere, it traps cooler, denser air below and smog just sits in between them. Using bottles of colored hot and cold water, this...\n
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