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Curated OER

School Identity

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss what symbols make a group. As a class, they create a list of the advantages and disadvantages of a school uniform and how it reflects the culture of the school. They complete worksheets and discuss their own...
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Curated OER

Hands of Doom

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss the four essential step used for safe food handling: clean, separate, cook, and chill. They identify the bacteria that can cause food poisoning, practice how to properly wash hands before and after handling food,...
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Curated OER

Creating and Designing a Database of Class Library Books

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are shown how to create their own database using different field types. They are taugt how to design their own layout-chaning font or size and color of text, adding background color and clipart. Students interrogate their...
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Curated OER

Activity 10: Primary and Secondary Sources

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students sort documents into primary and secondary sources and analyze their reliability. In this history research lesson, the teacher gathers a selection of document images, then discusses primary and secondary sources and their benefits.
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Curated OER

VA Statute for Religious Freedom, II. Matching Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils read and analyze primary source documents. In this matching lesson, students read sections of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Pupils match the document sections with paraphrased sections and discuss the accuracy of the...
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Curated OER

Sources of Information

For Teachers 7th - 11th
For this sources of information study guide worksheet, students read a brief overview pertaining primary and secondary sources and then respond to a reflection question.
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Curated OER

The Inuit Style of Film-making

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine the style of Inuit.  In this Film lesson, 7th graders research the different ways to create a Hollywood film.  Students read various articles on this style of art. 
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Curated OER

Women In Islam

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars identify the basic beliefs and practices within Islam. Using a specific country's culture, they discover the experiences of Muslim women differ between countries. They compare and contrast the rights and protections...
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Curated OER

Sorting the Loyalist Documents

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students organize the Canadian Loyalist primary source documents and add more information to their primary source document concept maps.
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Curated OER

Prisoner of War

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study prison life during the Civil War. As a class, they brainstorm questions about prison life. In groups, students read primary source documents that give clues to life in a civil war prison. Students draw conclusions and...
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Curated OER

Budgeting 101

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify various sources of income and discern between needs and wants as they also learn to create a personal budget.  In this personal budget lesson, student understand financial scenarios as they relate to different ways...
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New York Times

New York Times: Lesson of the Day: 'The Lost Diaries of War'

For Students 9th - 10th
Volunteers have begun an effort to transcribe the pages of more than 2,000 diaries written by ordinary people during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Their voices, filled with anxiety, isolation and uncertainty, resonate...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Children's Diaries During the Holocaust

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students will learn about the life of children and teenagers before and during the Holocaust by reading excerpts from their diaries. In the end, these children perished in the concentration camps. Read entries about their everyday life...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Diary of Anne Frank: How Would I Survive?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lesson to be used following the reading of play The Diary of Anne Frank or the book Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. Middle schoolers explore the Anne Frank Center website. In groups of five, students analyze the residents of the...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Connecting the Story "Diary of a Worm" to a Daily Activity Diary

For Teachers K - 1st
Beginning with reading, "Diary of a Worm" to the students, guide a discussion about how the story is like real worms. The students then keep a day by day activity diary of all the things that happen in their lives to compare their lives...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Power Point Life Span Diaries

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students research an animal or other living creature and create a life-span diary similar to the one they read about in the book Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin. PowerPoint presentations are made for students to use while sharing their...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Unlikely Diary Keepers

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards
The writer will assume the role of a living creature (like an arthropod) or an abstraction (like a fraction). Writers will do research on what they have chosen as their roles, and learn new facts about these roles. The writer will...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Discussion Guide: As Far as I Can See: Meg's Diary

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "As Far As I Can See: Meg's Diary" by Kate McMullan. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Flying Free: Corey's Underground Railroad Diary

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Flying Free: Corey's Underground Railroad Diary" by Sharon Dennis Wyeth. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Tadpole Diary

For Teachers 2nd
Learn about the life cycle by exploring tadpoles.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Suggestions for Writing Memoirs: Memoirs Inspired by Whimpy Diary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After reading journal entries from The Diary of a Whimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, students brainstorm and share their own ideas with a partner. Once they have a few ideas, they choose one idea to transform into a narrative writing. The...
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PBS

Pbs: Putting It Together (A Lesson Plan for Making Great Video Diaries)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson on producing how to produce video diaries with high production value and content quality.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Evaluating Eyewitness Reports

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students practice working with primary documents by comparing accounts of the Chicago Fire and testing the credibility of a Civil War diary.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: What Was Columbus Thinking

For Teachers 5th - 8th
These lesson plans guide students' thinking about the effects Columbus' journey to the New World had on Native Americans and uses primary sources such as excerpts from Columbus' diary and letters to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand.

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