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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Separate Is Not Equal: White Only

For Students 9th - 10th
This section from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History's exhibition Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education gives the history of Jim Crow laws and how they affected not only the voting rights of...
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Starfall

Starfall: Greater Than, Less Than, Equal To

For Students K - 1st Standards
This lesson focuses on determining if items and greater than, less than, or equal to other like items. They click on the correct sign for each group of items.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: When Does 1 + 1 Not Equal 2?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson will get students thinking outside the box about situations in which 1 + 1 is not necessarily equal to 2. Examples includes dozens of eggs and distances which are perpendicular.
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Sheeps and Ducks [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This task challenges a student to use addition and multiplication to think about and calculate equal sized groups.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: All Fat Is Not Created Equally!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students learn that fats found in the foods we eat are not all the same; they discover that physical properties of materials are related to their chemical structures. Provided with several samples of commonly used fats with different...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: Developments in Democracy

For Students 9th - 10th
Activity for high school students in which they apply Constitutional reasoning to explore the topic of equality for women and debate the necessity of an Equal Rights Amendment. Site provides comprehensive background and resource material...
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Others Demand Equality

For Students 5th - 8th
Many other groups learned how to push for their civil rights from African Americans' civil rights movement. Read about the Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and gays as they worked to achieve equal treatment under the law.
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Virginia Historical Society

Virginia Historical Society: Massive Resistance

For Students 9th - 10th
A chilling account of the ways Virginia lawmakers attempted to subvert the Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education in 1958. Read about the Southern Manifesto, and the group of laws known as Massive Resistance.
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Other

The Human Right to Freedom From Discrimination

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses the "human right to freedom from any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on gender, race, color, national or ethnic origin, language, religion, political or other opinion, age, or any other status,...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Finding Equal Groups

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be able to compare groups of objects to decide if they are equal with this lesson. Included are pictures and videos of the lesson in action, worksheets, and a SMART Board resource.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Compare Numbers of Objects 1

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Practice counting which group has more objects. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Compare Numbers of Objects 2

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Practice counting to see which group has the most things in it. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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South Carolina Educational Television

South Carolina Etv Commission: Celebrate Freedom: Tuskegee Airmen

For Students 9th - 10th
A multimedia experience about the Tuskegee Airmen, an all African American flying squadron established in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1941. This exhibit celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the struggles and accomplishments of this group of...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Classroom: The Pursuit of Justice

For Students 9th - 10th
This book analyzes 30 Supreme Court cases chosen by a group of Supreme Court justices and leading civics educators as the most important for American citizens to understand. An additional 100 significant cases included in state history...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Sncc and Core

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), two groups that played pivotal roles in organizing nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Guess the Marbles in the Bag

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will make their best guesses as to how many marbles are in a bag. After recording 4-5 guesses, the teacher writes the number representing the total on the board, and the students then help sort their guesses into less than,...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 3.oa Gifts From Grandma, Variation 1

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
The first of these is a multiplication problem involving equal-sized groups. The next two reflect the two related division problems, How many groups? and How many in each group? CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.A.3 Use multiplication and division...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Women's Clubs

For Students 9th - 10th
Read how women formed strong clubs and organization to strengthen the women's movement during late 19th and early 20th centuries. These groups not only endorsed women's suffrage, but also made way for the formation of the PTA, more...
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Black Past

Black Past: Fisk Jubilee Singers

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interesting encyclopedia article, you can read about the beginning of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a gospel group which performed spirituals all over the country and the world.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Which Number Is Greater? Which Number Is Less?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The teacher will show the class two groups of objects or drawings of objects for the students to compare using greater than/less than language. Students will discuss in pairs how they know which number is greater or less than the other...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: More and Less Handfuls

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This is a good small group/pairs activity to practice counting. Each student grabs two handfuls of counters and counts them. The student then draws and records the quantity on a student-recording sheet (example included). Student...
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PBS

Teachers' Domain: Understanding White Supremacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan explores some of the structures that supported the system of white supremacy in the South. Students watch a video of historical footage showing white resisistance, and examine ordinances and documents of white supremacy...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Curious George: Bug Catcher

For Students Pre-K - K
This game from Curious George helps children learn numbers, counting, comparing sets, and numerical relations. Help Curious George figure out which group of bugs is bigger, and then catch them.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Bigger or Smaller

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second grade students are asked to apply two complementary processes: counting and grouping. The conceptual understanding of the place value of a number and combining/separating numbers using place value, are critical aspects of...

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