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State of Mind: Inventing the American Identity

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners define national identity, explain importance of having national identity, describe America's national identity, work together and formulate class vision of what America's national identity is, identify United States symbols and...
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Peace: Being Even Tempered

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars explore reasons to have a positive attitude. They read a story about attitudes and sing a song about being in a good mood. In groups, students share happy stories. They draw a cartoon about a child being bullied and...
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Newscast From An Ancient City

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders produce a newscast from an Ancient Roman city. In this journalism and history lesson, 7th graders work in groups to dramatize a historical event from the Roman Empire. students sequence the events, role-play, and create...
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Gibson Girls and Flappers: What is this "New Woman"?

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students divide into five groups with each exploring one section of the website, "The New Woman". After they complete their research, they discuss the nature and characteristics of the "new woman" and compare these to characteristics of...
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The Eighty Yard Run

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read and explore the themes of the book The Eighty Yard Run. In this literature lesson, students discuss their observations and predictions. Students develop their own story which is similar to that of The Eighty Yard Run.
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Earning Trust

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore trustworthiness. In this character development lesson plan, students brainstorm communities to which they belong and generate common traits of these communities. Students discuss how trust is gained and write a...
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Circle of Friends

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students investigate the meaning of friendship and how to make friends. In this friendship instructional activity, students make Venn Diagrams showing the similarities and differences of characters in two stories. They discuss their own...
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K-5th Grade Lesson Plan on Diversity - Animals

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate stereotyping and diversity by looking at dog breeds. In this diversity and stereotype activity, students discuss characteristics of dogs they are familiar with. They describe similarities and differences between the...
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If These Walls Could Talk: Seeing a Culture Through Human Features

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read Talking Walls and discuss the walls presented and their importance to the culture. In this geography lesson, students locate and label each country/continent discussed in the book on a world map. Students take a walk and...
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Orienteering: Map Skills

For Teachers K - 4th
Students discover orienteering. For this orienteering lesson, students search for six specific landmarks. Students brainstorm how maps and landmarks are helpful.
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A Separate Peace

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students work in small groups to create a word web or other graphic organizer that explores one or more of the following words: rivalry, peace, trust, suspicion, or impulse. They discuss the pros and cons of "healthy competition."
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Summarizing the American Flag

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders brainstorm and write summary of things they learned about American Flag, edit another student's summary, rewrite their own summary, and conference with teacher before writing final copy.
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A Web of Workers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create webs, emphasizing interdependence of workers and products in the community.
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Racists Actions Toward the Native Americans

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils explore Thomas Jefferson and his attitude toward Native Americans. They study maps from European colonization and the westward movement that pushed the Native Americans further west. Students analyze primary source writings of...
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Commanding Performance

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify the many aspects of their daily lives that are guided by rules or laws.
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Sexual Health & Hygiene

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars discuss sexual health and hygiene. They complete a worksheet and have the opportunity to ask verbal or anonymous questions.
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Map Coordinate Bingo

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students play a bingo-type game to locate cities by coordinates. They explain the use of orientation on a map and identify cities in the western hemisphere. They compare road maps, shutttle images, and a CIR image and obtain an...
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Life and Times, Developing a Chronology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers review the career and life of Ernie Pyle as an example of a biography in context. They consider how a chronology maps out the events in the life of an individual in the context of other events that were occurring at the...
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Birds of Wisconsin

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the job done by ornithologists. They role play identifying the characteristics that make a bird a bird. They discuss what makes each bird species unique. Students are introduced to Wisconsin's most common and rare...
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Tonight's Homework - Watch Cartoons

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore various forms of media and its influence on their daily lives. Through an exploration of newspaper, commercial advertisement and audio media, they discuss the way media is used and how it can influence decision...

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