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Is a Tough Smoking Law Coming to Your State?

For Teachers 2nd - 10th
Students read and discuss a news article about a new anti-smoking law in Hawaii. They answer article comprehension questions, complete a fill-in-the blank activity, discuss laws that ban smoking in small groups, and create a No Smoking...
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What's Missing?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners examine their beliefs about archaeological preservation. They articulate a response to archaeological resource destruction. Students then complete two puzzles and relate them to archaeological research.
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The 8th Amendment: The Death Penalty

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students take a closer look at the death penalty. In this U.S. government instructional activity, students watch a Discovery video about capital punishment in the United States and then compose letters to the editors of newspapers about...
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Civil Rights Violations In America, A Historical Review

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students analyze an event where a person or groups of people were singled out because of their race, religion, nationality or sexuality. They interpret the song "Scarecrow" by Melissa Etheridge and apply the lyrics to the events they...
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Government Lesson Plan: Lesson Plan 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine affirmative action policies. They analyze the positive/negative aspects of affirmative action. They study historical development and current status of principles, institutions, and processes of political systems.
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Catching On To Cooperation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students give examples where they were to cooperate with others. They work together in groups to create something given the materials they have. They discuss how the project went afterwards.
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Strangers and Dangerous Situations

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discover how to identify trusting adults and how to respond to dangerous situations. They discuss different situations and how they should react. They draw a picture of an adult who could help them.
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Stranger Awareness

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover how to react in a dangerous situation. They discover how to identify trusting adults as well. They role-play telling adults about a dangerous situation.
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What's Safe?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students identify safe and unsafe activities. They identify what is allowed when their parents are home and when they are not. They complete a worksheet and discuss the different activities.
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Home Alone Role Play

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss why it is important to be safe while they are home alone. They decide if decisions made in skits they watch were good or bad. They even create their own role plays.
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If They Had Lived

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars research the impact on society when someone dies from gun violence. They discuss the dangers of guns. They work together in groups to predict what a person might have done had they not been killed.
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Copy Cat Game

For Teachers K
Students participate in a game about copy cats. They follow an adult leader as they perform positive and negative behaviors. They are to react only to the positives.
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People Who Care

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders brainstorm how they care about certain people in their lives. They discuss how they take care of those people or pets. They draw a picture of the people who care about them.
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What's Your Sign?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice recognition of common street and safety signs and discuss what happens if these signs are ignored.
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Darfur Now Lesson Two: Responding to the Violence in Darfur

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of political activism. In this Darfur conflict lesson plan, students watch "Darfur Now" and consider the stories of the political activists featured. Learners use the information regarding the activists to...
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T-shirt Chromatography

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore chromatography, a process used to separate mixtures. They create a colorful T-shirt design.
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Whodunit?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students observe the geometric patterns on fingerprints. They classify fingerprints into groups and obtain prints from surfaces.
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8th Amendment: The Death Penalty

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore capital punishment. In this death penalty lesson, students research capital punishment and write an editorial defending 1 side of the issue.
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Landmark Supreme Court Cases and the Constitution: National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine the impact of court decisions. In this Supreme Court lesson, students read the National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977) case study regarding First Amendment Rights. Young scholars take notes...
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The First Amendment: Freedom of Expression

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore First Amendment rights. In this U.S. Constitution lesson, students examine the freedom of expression as they view a PowerPoint presentation and listen to the lecture that accompanies it.
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Street Language and Learning

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the type of language they use on the street in the city. In groups, they brainstorm ideas about a topic they decide on from a cluster of words. Using those ideas, they organize them into a written paper using proper...
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Are Curfew's Fair?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore and discuss how curfews are set up. They discuss how difficult it can be to define appropriate and inappropriate behavior. Students role play situations involving curfew and the behaviors they are meant to curb.

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