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The Brief American Pageant: The Planting of the English America

For Teachers 8th - 11th
A series of maps illustrate the early growth of English America, which includes the Maryland, Virginia, Carolina, and Georgia colonies. Settlements such as Jamestown, Roanoke, and Charleston are labeled on the map, allowing a teacher or...
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PBS

Compare State Voting Laws Today with Laws of the Jim Crow Era

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Georgia's law S.B. 202 is at the center of a lesson that asks young scholars to examine what critics say are Georgia's attempts to limit voting access to Black voters. Groups then investigate the voting laws in their own state, as well...
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Student Handouts

Geography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Young geographers follow Dr. Martin Luther King's journey during the civil rights movement by identifying major events on a map of the eastern United States, such as his birth in Atlanta, Georgia and his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in...
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Drawing from Life: Tissue Paper Collage

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners watch a video about the artist Georgia O'Keeffe and discuss her work. They draw flowers plants and fish and use collage techniques imitating O'Keeffe's style.
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Watercolor Paintings O'Keefe Style

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice watercolor techniques and then apply that knowledge to a painting that uses subject matter and abstracts that Georgia O'Keeffe might have chosen.
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Charlestown Tea Party

For Teachers 8th - 12th
In this Charleston Tea Party worksheet, young scholars read and discuss an excerpt from the Georgia Review regarding the Charleston Tea Party.
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Georgia O'Keeffe Watercolor

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate three different watercolor techniques using flower pictures and flowers as the inspiration. They work with organic shapes.
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Native Lands: Indians in Georgia

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate the Native Americans of the Muscogee Creek and their use of the land. In this U.S. history lesson plan, students investigate the importance of the deer for the Muscogee Creek peoples' way of life and the many uses...
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Native Lands: Indians in Georgia

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars research what Native Americans looked like in order to dispel common stereotypes.  In this Native American history lesson, students begin by drawing their mental picture of an Indian, then they research North American...
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Georgia O¿¿¿Keeffe¿¿¿s floral paintings

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students discuss the differences between realistic and abstract art by focusing on Georgia O'Keeffe's work The lesson can be delivered in either a simplistic or more complex way depending upon the grade level.
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Native Lands: Indians in Georgia-Shifting Ground Political Cartoon-Introduction

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Young scholars explore the relationship between the Creek, Cherokee, and European/American cultures prior to the American Revolution.  Students do Internet research to identify and explain  changes in these cultures, then  create six...
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America: The Land We Live In: Landmarks

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars explore the concept of landmarks.  In this landmark lesson plan, students brainstorm different landmarks around their community and nationally.  Young scholars then identify the patterns in Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings or...
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"O'Keefe Flowers"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Even the smallest things in nature are big when you paint like Georgia O'Keefe. Master the art of color choice and larger-than-life drawing with a lesson that helps little ones draw a normal object in a larger scale. This is a good art...
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US Civil Rights Trail

Explore the Civil Rights Trail—Interactive Map

For Students 4th - 12th
An interactive map equipped with images, text, and clickable links takes history buffs on a journey through the Civil Rights trail. Scholars discovery locations including Atlanta, Georgia, Jackson, and Mississippi as part of an...
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Great Books Foundation

I Shall Not Beg for My Rights

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
An excerpt from Henry MacNeal Turner's address to the Georgia legislature provides class members with an opportunity to develop their literary analysis skills. Prompted by the provided factual, evaluative, and interpretive questions,...
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Thoughtful Learning

Using Perspective Shifting to Imagine History

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Imagine what it would have been like to walk from Georgia to Texas! Perspective shifting, a key part of developing social awareness, involves just this sort of imaging. A short mini-lesson asks learners to shift their point of view and...
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News Literacy Project

News Goggles: Tracking Developing Stories

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
A 28-slide presentation introduces viewers to the process reports go through to track and verify developing news stories. Using the reports of the attacks at Atlanta, Georgia, massage parlors as an example, viewers are taught what to...
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K20 LEARN

The Bank Of Justice: Civil Rights In The US

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
To launch a study of racial segregation and integration, young historians first watch a news video about a prom in Georgia that was first integrated in 2013. They then compare the goals in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to King's "I Have a...
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Curated OER

Mystery State #18

For Students 4th - 6th
In this mystery state worksheet, students answer five clues to identify the state in question. They then locate that state on a map.
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Native Lands: Indian in Georgia

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students bring in vegetables that the Native Americans ate. In this vegetable instructional activity, students create a graph that shows how many students brought in each vegetable. They measure their vegetable to find the length,...
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Indians in Georgia

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate technology used by Native Americans by examining their creations.  In this Native American math lesson, students examine the overall area of Mississippian Indian mounds that were built hundreds of years ago....
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6 Room Image Poem (adapted from Georgia Heard’s Awakening the Heart)

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore emotions and memories in preparation for poetry writing. In this poetry lesson plan students use a graphic organizer and prompts to begin to describe a specific memory which they will turned into a poem.
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Reconstructing Reconstruction-Comparing Primary and Secondary Accounts of Post-Civil War Georgia

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore Reconstruction by writing Ms. Walls back in the voice of the "Little Folks of the North and South."
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Mystery State # 51

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this United States mystery worksheet, pupils determine which state is described by the 5 clues listed on the sheet and then mark it on the outline map of the United States.

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