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Assessment
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Interview: Selection and Quiz

For Students 6th - 10th
In this online interactive interview skills worksheet, students read a passage and respond to 9 true or false questions. Students may check their answers with the click of the mouse.
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Lesson Plan
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Interview! Magazine

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students interview a subject and write a biographical sketch for a fictional magazine. In this interview lesson, students choose a person to interview and create two sets of questions. Students conduct the interview. Students then write...
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Worksheet
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Questions for Dancers- Interviewing

For Students 7th - 8th
In this interview learning exercise, students locate someone in their community who does traditional dances. They interview dancers using the questions listed.
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Writing
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Interview a Friend

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this interview question, students first read a set of 10 interview questions to ask a friend, then interview and write a page about the person, then write a creative story about that person based on the interview.
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Lesson Plan
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Career Bytes Interview

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars conduct career-based interviews. In this career education lesson, students research careers and interview career professionals to produce a video that features ins and outs of the career.
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Worksheet
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Grandparents’ Day Interview

For Students 8th - 12th
In this interviewing skills worksheet, students read tips for conducting interviews as part of the research process and then use the tips to interview their grandparents about their life experiences related to economics. Students write...
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Lesson Plan
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The World of Work

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students practice appropriate behavior during a mock job interview. In this interview skills instructional activity, students identify a career using the given websites. Students answer questions in preparation for the job interview and...
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Lesson Plan
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Why Does Service Matter?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students determine how community members serve others. In this service learning lesson, students interview community members who volunteer by serving others. Students then determine how they could serve their community.
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Lesson Plan
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Career Education: Office Workers

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Frist and second graders explore career options. First they will watch career videos and then prepare to interview school personnel regarding their job responsibilities. They will then send thank you cards to the interviewed subjects...
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Lesson Plan
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Biography Chat

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students profile a mock television talk-show format to conduct mock interviews with famous people in history. Students read biographies of famous people in history. Students assemble questions for interviews.
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PBS

Family History: Those with Lofty Ideals

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Would you stand up for your beliefs, no matter the cost? Scholars investigate their own families to uncover examples of how and when someone stood up for their ideals. Using video clips, interviews, and eulogies, they come to understand...
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Activity
American Immigration Law Foundation

An Immigrant’s Experience

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
After interviewing an immigrant about their voyage to the United States and first impressions of the country, young learners create a fictional series of journal entries and design an iMovie depicting their interviewee's story.
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Lesson Plan
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Linguistic Diversity. Languages in Canada - Elementary

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Create a language mosaic to reveal the linguistic diversity in your community. Pupils interview a person with a home language other than English and contribute to a bulletin board display representing the variety of languages spoken. The...
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Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Voices of the Struggle: The Continual Struggle for Equality

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
As part of a study of the Civil Rights Movement from 1868 to the present, class members examine first person narratives, the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, and other significant events in civil rights history. They then...
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Lesson Plan
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Exploring "My Market"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A great way to determine if a career is right for you is to try it out. Learners explore the marketing career cluster by interviewing a person working in the marketing field and by developing a marketing-related service learning project....
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Worksheet
Everything Homeschooling

Biography Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 8th
Gathering information about a person is the easy part. Crafting an interesting biography is another thing altogether. The value in this information-collecting instructional activity is that writers are asked to move beyond the usual...
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Advocates for Human Rights

Who are Immigrants?

For Students 8th - Higher Ed Standards
What do Jerry Yang, Patrick Ewing, John Muir, Charlize Theron, Peter Jennings, and Saint Frances X Cabrini all have in common? They are all immigrants to the United States. Famous and not-so-famous immigrants are the focus of a resource...
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Activity
Teaching Tolerance

Spotlight on Change Agents

For Teachers 6th - 12th
A thought-provoking resource guides learners as they interview agents of social change and share their findings. Scholars select an individual, create questions, conduct the interview, and create a profile of the person they selected....
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Writing
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4HimKids

Biography Worksheet

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Learn more about a famous person in history and record this information on a biography format worksheet. After conducting research on a person of interest, biographers record information about their subject's name, birth and death dates,...
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Lesson Plan
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Coming to America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students interview a person who has immigrated to America and, based on that interview, to write an article about the person.
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Lesson Plan
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Caring for Others - Interview Questions

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A worksheet produced by the 4-H organization challenges youngsters to consider seven questions regarding caring for others. They must choose five of the questions, then interview one of their peers by asking them the five questions. One...
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Lesson Plan
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World War II Veteran Interview Project

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students learn interview skills by formulating questions and videotaping an interview with a veteran.
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Lesson Plan
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Interviews with the American People "Days of Infamy"

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students compare and contrast statements made by people in "Man on the Streets." They are interviewing them on the current war in Iraq and how they felt on Sept. 11th. These interviews are tape recorded. To see what kinds of questions to...
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Roald Dahl

Matilda - The Third Miracle

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Magnus takes a visit to the classroom in the 20th chapter of Matilda. Or does he? After reading, learners interview the person in the hot seat to get a detailed account of what happened during this chapter. Then, they write individual...