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Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

Moving to the Poems of Angel Island

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
A poem carved on Angel Island's walls is the guiding text of a lesson that challenges scholars to put movement into a written piece of art. After warm up-activities, learners play a game of "Pass the Clap" and "Pass the Line," in which...
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Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

Exclusion "Act"ivity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Two simulations highlight the feelings individuals experienced when immigrating to Angel Island. During the first simulation, scholars listen to and answer questions, divided based on their answers. The second simulation pins learners as...
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Stanford University

The Gold Rush and San Francisco

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The California Gold Rush rewrote the history of the American West, but especially that of San Francisco. After analyzing images of the city and primary sources, such as a diary entry, scholars discuss these changes. Scaffolded questions...
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Teach Engineering

Earthquakes Living Lab: Geology and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

For Teachers 5th - 8th
We can learn from the past to protect the future. Pairs look at two historical earthquakes: San Francisco, Calif., and Kobe, Japan. Pupils compare the two earthquakes and their impacts, then determine how engineers may use the...
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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Water from the Well

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
How much water does it take to brush your teeth? How about to wash your clothes? Perform an experiment that measures water usage in everyday tasks and compares them to the days before indoor plumbing, specifically the California gold...
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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Pesky Plastics: The Problem with Plastic

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
What can happen to the environment if plastic continues to pollute it? Learners read about the implications of plastic on health, water, and nature in a two-page reading passage. After they finish reading, they work on six comprehension...
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Curated OER

Create a Walking Tour of San Francisco's Chinatown

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Take a tour of Chinatown as it was in the 1800's. Analyzing primary source images and documents, learners will gain a better understanding of the myths and misconceptions of Chinese immigrants during the 1800's. They create a pamphlet to...
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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Recycled Water: A Smart Way to Reuse Water

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Learn about wastewater and recycled water with a science reading activity. After learners finish a two-page passage about conserving the water supply, they answer six comprehension questions about what they have read.
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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Hetch Hetchy: The Story of San Francisco's Water

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
How did San Francisco supply enough water for its residents over the last two centuries? Learn about droughts and water conservation in California, as well as specific historical events that led to the water system today. Kids read two...
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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

What is Groundwater? Our Underground Water Supply

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Learn about the consequences of groundwater with a lesson about the different ways California handles water conservation and pollution. After reading a passage about the water table, learners apply what they have read to six...
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Curated OER

A Day in the Life of a San Francisco Native Animal

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students write from an animal's perspective. In this writing lesson students explore the landscape of San Francisco prior to the arrival of the explorers. Students research animals indigenous to the area.
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Curated OER

Taking From the Giving Tree

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the ways in which various American cities negotiate the protection of their "green infrastructure," gaining a broader understanding of proposed and enacted legislation as it relates to preserving and planting trees in...
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Curated OER

Field Trip - San Francisco Bay Model

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate scale models while attending a field trip within the San Francisco Bay Area.  In this oceanography lesson, students identify the currents of the Bay Area and discuss how they are created by different tides.  Students...
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Curated OER

Following Sean Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a film about two families living in San Francisco during the 1960s. They examine clips of the film and take notes on its historical context and discuss what historical information can be received from first-hand...
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Curated OER

San Francisco, Ahoy!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders analyze paintings that share a common theme of San Francisco as seen by some of the first travelers who arrived there. In this art history lesson plan, 5th graders consider the experiences involved with the arrival to a new...
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Curated OER

Internet Exploration of San Francisco

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use the Internet for gaining information on a specific topic. They identify a specific place or event in San Francisco history. They summarize topic findings into a report to present to a small group and also to be...
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Loma Prieta, Bay Area, Earthquake 1989

For Students 9th - 10th
This outstanding multimedia site documents the earthquake and related events that took place on October 17, 1989 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: School Publishers: A Virtual Journey Into San Francisco's Chinatown

For Students 3rd - 8th
Walk this way and take a virtual tour of San Francisco's Chinatown. A good way to "see" it without actually being there.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Asian American Heritage: Li Keng Wong's Story

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This Scholastic site features the fascinating story of former Angel Island detainee Li Keng Wong in her own words. There is also a transcript of an interview that took place in May,2003.
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Other

Cable Car museum.org: How Cable Cars Operate

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderful CableCarMuseum.org site that celebrates the Cable Car. Lots of information and photos
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Other

San Francisco Cable Car

For Students 9th - 10th
A site dedicated to the cable car: history, rider's guide, cable car barn, and related links.
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Other

The Marine Science Institute

For Students 9th - 10th
The Marine Science Institute offers various general information about the San Francisco bay and its ecology.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Panama Pacific International Exposition 3 D

For Students 9th - 10th
View one hundred sets of stereographic images of the Panam-Pacific International Exposition. The site also explains how to make 3-D glasses that enable you to see the images in all their glory.
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Ibis Communications

Eyewitness to History: The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906

For Students 9th - 10th
This article offers moving eyewitness accounts of events and feelings of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.