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Beginning with B...

For Students 9th - 12th
High schoolers can sharpen their research skills by utilizing the Internet to find the answers to the trivia questions presented in this on-line worksheet. This particular worksheet focuses on questions that have the letter "B" in them,...
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Sorting Foods

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
A basic lesson on sorting awaits your charges. They sort a variety of foods while using the food pyramid, and identify the role of the food guide pyramid in helping people eat a healthy diet. Learners use an internet tool to apply their...
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Newsworthy Images

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students examine images from newspapers and create their own photos to tell a story. In this photojournalism lesson, students analyze a photograph using the elements and principles of art then create a photographic image that tells a...
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Newsworthy Images

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students examine images from newspapers, the photo cropping process, and create their own photos to tell a story. In this photography analysis instructional activity, students analyze a photograph using the elements of art and analyze...
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African-American Civil Rights in the U.S.

For Students 9th - 12th
For this African American history worksheet, students respond to 39 identification questions that require them to define or list the significance behind 39 events and people associated with the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Turbulent Times of the Sixties

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore 1960's America. In this American history lesson, students read about and research 1960's political and entertainment figures, social activism, the Civil Rights Movement, and environmentalism as they complete writing and...
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Truth, Trash and Treasure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate how democracy in the United States makes civic virtue possible. They examine the rights and responsibilities associated with democracy. In small groups, they create public service posters that highlight these...
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American Idealist Lesson 2: Sargent Shriver and Public Service

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the public service contributions of Sargent Shriver. In this public service lesson, students explore the work of the Peace Corps and investigate other service learning opportunities.
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Who’s Got Rights? An Introduction to Human Rights and Human Rights Defenders

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils explore human rights issues. In this social justice lesson, students examine human rights as they read segments of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights," discuss photographs with human rights implications, and play a human...
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Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students list a variety of interests and achievements of Franklin and Jefferson. They take a position that one or the other's interests and achievements were more wide-ranging or that they were equivalent. They write out their findings.
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Business Lessons from the Basket Weaver

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the basket weaving business and entrepreneurship in action. They discuss the basket weaving business and identify business concepts that apply to the creation and sell of baskets. Students identify factors that regulate...
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Exploring Folk Traditions and Folk Beliefs

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders work together to brainstorm an idea to focus on the similiarties and differences between various cultures. Individually, they interview family members using questions they created based on their topic. They use their...
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JFK Assassination

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students write equations of a line. In this algebra lesson plan, students investigate the assassination of JFK through linear equations. They calculate the length of given line segments.
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Why a President? Why not a King?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students research how and why a country elects to have an executive branch of the government. They study the office of the Presidency of the US.
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Big Trouble in the New Frontier: The Bay of Pigs

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore the Bay of Pigs invasion and defend both sides of the issue.
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Terrorism: What's in a Word?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read selected articles and discuss various definitions of terrorism. They create a chekclist of their definitions. Students listen as the teacher reads several scenarios aloud and decide if the incident would count as terrorism....
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Unit 5: Worksheet 4 - Proportion

For Students 8th - 10th
In this proportion worksheet, students use proportions to find the length of a missing side of similar triangles. They find percent of a number, and solve real life story problems with percents and discounts. This two-page worksheet...
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Unit 5: Worksheet 4 - Proportions

For Students 8th - 10th
In this proportion worksheet, students use proportions to find the missing side of similar triangles, they identify the percent of a number, and graph points on a coordinate plane. Students solve real life story problems dealing with...
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Holding Out for a Hero: Roberto Clemente

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students brainstorm lists of heroes, heroic qualities, and ways to pay tribute to heroes. In this Holding Out for a Hero lesson, students record Clemente's heroic attributes as athlete ad humanitarian. After visiting the Beyond Baseball...
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20C American Presidents

For Students 5th - 7th
In this American Presidents activity, students match the names of 25 Presidents with a phrase that describes an event in their term. This page begins with number 51 and goes to number 75.
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Looking at Owls in Literature, Art, and Science

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the characteristics of owls through various science and art activities. They analyze drawings by J.J. Audubon and complete a Venn diagram comparing the similarities and differences of different kinds of owls,...
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ESL: American Presidents

For Students 5th - 8th
In this ESL American Presidents activity, students read a table of information about the presidents, their vice presidents and party, then answer a set of 20 questions.
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Painting Pictures with Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers develop their own smilies and metaphors. They examine writing of the Poet Laureate. They identify philanthropy in quotations of others.
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The Unfinished Lincoln Memorial

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop a list of images of President Abraham Lincoln: for example, self-taught youth, great debater, advocate of abolition of slavery and assassinated hero. They must determine if these images of Lincoln stand up under scrutiny.

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