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Looking Through Time
Second graders research their local history and create a books program.
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Through the Years
Second graders read "The Hundred Penny Box" by Sharon Bell Mathis. They collect pennies and pictures for each year they have been alive. They use software and their scanned photographs to design an autobiography.
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Grizzlies: Back from the Brink
Students explore the grizzly bear and the struggle for the grizzly bear to come back from the brink of extinction.
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Personal History
Fourth graders gain an appreciation of knowledge about recent history by interviewing senior citizens. They summarize their interviews and organize them into a written presentation.
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Write a Constitution
Fourth graders examine the United states Constitution and discuss the difficulties the framers faced in writing it. They explore ideas about the division of power, rights, and other topics contained in it.
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Capitol vs. Capital
Students construct time lines to show the order of significant events in Ohio history. They explain how Ohio progressed from territory to statehood.
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Anti-Lynching Campaigns, 1890-1942
Students examine the differences in opinion between black and white women about putting an end to lynching. They investigate how black activists encouraged white women to join them in their opposition to lynching.
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Annotated Time Line
Students write biographies and timelines of famous people. They research a famous historical figure and his associated events. They write a two-page biography of the figure and create a timeline detailing the events of his life. They...
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Human Rights Timeline
Students create a time line that includes personal, national, and international human rights events. The instructional activity is very personal and encourages students to understand themselves and others within the community.
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Amazing Grazing
Students discuss their experiences on a ranch. As a class, they tell the best part of their experiences or one thing they gathered from being on the ranch. They listen to the story and identify five items to focus on in the reading and...
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Forest Management
Students explore the changes in the Sequoia forest ecosystem. They evaluate reasons for the changes and discuss opposing views of human activity, logging and fire management practices. Students observe a video, describe the location of...
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Endangered Species- Florida Panther
Learners investigate the concept of the conservation of the Florida Panther and examine the effects of the Everglades water restoration project. They conduct a web based activity that includes the following: Listing what they know,...
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Chinese Calendar
Third graders listen to a Mak Kam's, "My Chinatown: One Year in Poems," before locating China on a map. They discuss the Chinese language and culture, comparing it to the American culture. They determine which animal sign they were born...
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Traction Man
In this puppet worksheet, students are provided with a stand up puppet and various clothing. Students cut along the lines provided to create the puppet and his take on and off suits and clothing.
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What Counts as History?
Eighth graders explore the question "What Counts as History?" In this Philosophy lesson, 8th graders pretend that they are going to interview a historian. Students read a primary source and answer the questions that follow.
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Why do we Dream of a White Christmas?
Students examine a reading selection on how the idea of a white Christmas was developed. In this ESL lesson, students share a class discussion about the article then complete several assignments to reinforce what they learned, including...
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Spelling List 33: Sight Words, Shun Sound, and Academic Vocabulary
In this spelling worksheet, students copy a set of 21 words 2 times each. Words are academic, sight, or have the "shun" sound.
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Chasing El Nino
For this El Nino worksheet, students review this specific change in the climate cycle by completing 20 short answer questions.
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Lone Star College Kingwood: American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
A comprehensive look at life in the twentieth century complete with timelines and photos. Decades are broken down by art and architecture, books and literature, educational movements, fads and fashion, historic events and technology,...
Scholastic
Scholastic:twentieth Century: Society in the United States
A brief easy to read overview of major developments in the way Americans lived during the first two decades of the twentieth century. This site also provides links to overviews of other major social events in twentieth century America...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Challenges of the Twenty First Century: The Domestic Mission
Overview of the domestic issues facing the Bush administration during the first decade of the 21st Century, including education, recession, war, and Hurricane Katrina. Site provides questions for discussion, glossary and links to primary...
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Vintage Vixen: 20th Century Fashion History
A descriptive history of female fashion in the twentieth century, decade-by-decade.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Decades Mural Project
Lesson for social studies teachers whose students are studying various decades.
CNN
Cnn: China's Century
A timeline of major events in China, in the first eight decades of the twentieth century, including the rise and fall of Yuan.