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Career Interest Record Update
Students create and update Career Interest Records to indicate their current career interests. Students evaluate what they want to be when they grow up and how their interests have changed since the previous year.
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Cory in the House: "New Kid in Town"
Young scholars, after watching the program "New Kid in Town," are introduced to the White House in Washington, D.C. They explore the difficulties of fitting into a new environment along with new acquaintances. They stress and address the...
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Rice: The Global Crop
Students understand the uniqueness of the rice plant and how it grows. Students compare rice growing in Indonesia and California, observing the steps common to the process everywhere. Students comprehend the concepts labor-intensive and...
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The Cultural Geography of East Asia
Students use information from the Asia Society's AskAsia Web site to explore the cultures of China, Japan, and Korea. They answer four questions and then use what they have learned to write a letter of introduction to a Japanese exchange...
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Biographical Account--John Lennon
Learners develop skills of biographical writing through research. Students analyze a video on John Lennon and his death. Learners visit the website on John Lennon still recording details of his death.
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Social Change and Modernization
In this social change and modernization worksheet, pupils respond to 6 short answer questions and answer 6 multiple choice questions regarding these sociology topics.
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Westward Ho
Students examine primary sources regarding Western migration. In this Manifest Destiny lesson, students determine why the pioneers moved west and what the trip was like as they examine sources and write journals based on their findings.
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Changing Attitudes: Aging in America Lesson Plan
Learners discuss how the elder members of the community are viewed. Using the internet, they research how this view has changed since colonial times. They also identify ways in which this attitude keeps changing in modern America.
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Shadow Puppetry in South India
Young scholars read a variety of literature from India, including folktales and fables. They then select a scene or story to script, work together to design and craft shadow puppets of characters and scenery, narrate a story, manipulate...
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Understanding Primary Sources
Students draw conclusions from primary sources and share information and interpretations with a small group. They are introduced to the Jigsaw technique. Students discuss why a grocery receipt would be a primary source. They...
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Cultural Comparison
Students choose from a group of entries about the culture of Peru. In this Peruvian culture instructional activity, students understand the definition of culture. Students describe the culture of Peru researched in the entry and complete...
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Write a Rap Song
Students compose lyrics for a rap song. In this music lesson, students choose a topic, such as "Our School," and use rhyming words to compose a rap song. Students perform the song for their classmates.
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ESL Holiday Lessons: National Jelly Bean Day
In this language skills worksheet, students read an article about National Jelly Bean Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble questions, 30...
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"We Remember" Eulogy Project
Eighth graders complete a culminating project on the Holocaust. For this eulogy lesson, 8th graders use information gathered from previous research and create a poster about the Holocaust. Students make a presentation using a document...
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Career Development (Career Exploration)
Eighth graders identify and describe career opportunities in a changing society
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Changing Attitudes in America
Learners discuss strategies for confronting destructive stereotypes and mythologies, as well as promoting racial understanding in Students.
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Show Me the Money
Students examine current and past economic crises around the world, using the current recession in the United States as a starting point.
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A Nation of Nations Lesson Plan: Charting African Ethnicities in America
Students read a portion of the narrative, The Transatlantic Slave Trade, to explain the ethnic origins of enslaved Africans brought to the US. They create charts and bar graphs comparing ethnicities in the lowlands and tidewater regions.
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Pixel Painting
Learners study the artwork of Chuck Close to examine Photorealism. They create a pixel painting using a monochromatic color scheme.
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Exploring the Uses of Art Through Latino Murals
Pupils assess role of art in their lives and discuss how murals can accomplish social change.
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The New Deal
Students practice their reading comprehension skills by reading about Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal programs. They answer questions related to the reading to test for comprehension.
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Herbert Hoover
Students practice their reading comprehension skills by reading an article about Herbert Hoover. They answer questions to test for comprehension.
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Class in the Media: Writing a Television Show
Students look at popular media presentations to determine what type of messages they convey about class and class-linked behavior. They listen to contemporary music to explore how the songs touch upon social class issues. They read...
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United States-Japanese Relations in Post World War II Era
Ninth graders analyze political cartoons and posters relating to the United States and Japan in the period following World War II. They discuss the positive and negative consequences of the United States occupation of Japan.