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Imagining Your Science Fiction Short Story

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders brainstorm ideas for their own science fiction story. Using worksheets, they sketch the plot and setting for their story. They create appropriate characters and develop their interactions among each other. They share...
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Feudal Japan and the Samurai

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students study the similarities of Feudal Japan and Europe. They show the feudal society of Japan, recognize the role of the samurai and identify the code of bushido.
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First Amendment: Bill of Rights

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore the First Amendment and the rights that are protected by the First Amendment. They discuss how the First Amendment is important to their daily lives. Students research the amendment and complete a concept map.
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What is Communism?

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore Communism. They explore Communism's roots in economics and discuss the spread of Communism in the Eastern Hemisphere. They evaluate a Communistic and a Capitalistic society. Students reflect upon the positives...
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Lesson Plan on Refugees

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore the issue of "human rights" and discuss world events/situations in which human rights are in question. They determine their own needs and wants and simulate the experience of being a refugee having to leave their home. ...
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The Trail of Tears; Its Grief and Loss

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to the removal of Native Americans along the Trail of Tears. In groups, they examine the political factors that caused this removal and its effect on society. To end the instructional activity, they discuss...
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The Constitution & Native Americans

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and consider US Constitutional origins in American Indian culture. They discuss and consider what it means to them to attribute the origins of the US Constitution to American Indian oral tradition. They compare the...
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US & Iroquois Constitution Parallels

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concepts related to comparing the United States and Iroquois Indians while focusing upon the foundations of the ruling documents like the US Constitution. They conduct research using...
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Willing to Participate: Political Engagement of Young Adults

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students consider what it means to be politically involved. In this civics lesson, students discuss voting as a privilege or right. Students also discuss how they may be able to effect social change through political involvement.
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Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine wealth including analyzing and interpreting the sources of it.  In this social responsibility lesson plan students create their own political cartoon.
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San Ignacio Lagoon: Economy or Ecology

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students debate over the development in the habitat of gray whales. In this role playing lesson, students will take on various roles in a debate over the development of a salt production facility in the San Ignacio Lagoon concerning the...
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Is Gandhi Right: Analyzing His Ideas

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students explore the connection between Gandhi and the Independence Movement in India. In this lesson plan on social change, students examine the ideas of Gandhi to analyze non violent change. Students consider the impact of British...
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Violence on TV and Our Response

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine violence on television. In this media awareness lesson, students discuss the types of fictional and realistic violence shown on American television. Students participate in a Congressional simulation activity on the...
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Communism

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders study communism. In this world history lesson, 7th graders discuss the similarities and differences between communism and democracies by writing Venn Diagrams.
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Power Generation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine energy issues. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students discuss nuclear power options. Students also discuss energy consumption and create energy reduction guides for students their own age. Many links to...
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Discovering Angel Island: The Story Behind the Poems

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students watch a video, view websites, and discuss the Chinese Exclusion Act that took place on Angel Island. In this Chinese exclusion act lesson plan, students discuss the interrogations that went on and fill out worksheets bout the...
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Rent and owner's major payments

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners retrieve and map census data to determine the average rent and owners' payments made throughout Canada. They find out how many people are spending more than 30 percent of their income on housing.
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Cultural Multimedia Projects

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research a cultural element (art, music, literature, food, clothing, religion, etc) and work as a group to create a multimedia presentation. This lesson focuses on the process of creating a multimedia presentation.
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Mother Earth

For Teachers K
Students compare natural and human made items and gain an awareness of the importance of Mother Earth to the Nez Perce people.
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Who Do You Want For Your Friend?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create a t-chart about the healthy and unhealthy characteristics in relationships. They discuss elements they should look for in a friend. They are read books to identify these elements.
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Fractions

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore the concept of fractions after reading Jump, Kangaroo, Jump. They are given fraction circles and are given the opportunity to explore and investigate them.
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What Time is It? Events of the Day

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students record the events of the day on a "My Day" worksheet, after setting various times on their clocks.
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Interactive Writing

For Teachers 1st
First graders write about vehicles that float using the interactive writing procedure.
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Chrysanthemum and Letter Tiles

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen as the teacher reads Chrysanthemum. They discuss the story, focusing on the length of Chrysanthemum's name. They compare the lengths of their own names using letter tiles, grid paper, and a class graph.

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