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Curated OER

Understanding Needs and Feelings

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify needs and feelings. In this character education lesson, students read two passages about being shy and scared. Students create an ending to the story on their own.
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Curated OER

Spark Activity: Louisiana Line Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students learn and practice 1 step at a time of the Louisiana Line Dance, then put all steps together and practice the dance to music. 
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Curated OER

Read loud: The Media

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this media read aloud activity, young scholars read a dialogue aloud in pairs.  Student A will ask a question about the media, and Student B gives the answer.
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Curated OER

Dictation: Violence

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this dictation worksheet about violence, students take dictation from a passage about violence.
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Curated OER

Dialogue: Work

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this dialogue about work worksheet, students answer questions about work and work conditions.  Student A asks the questions, and Student B provides the answer.
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Curated OER

Learning Sight Words with Picture Me Reading and the Document Camera

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify sight words. In this learning sight words lesson, 1st graders view flash cards to practice the words and identify them in a poem. 
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Curated OER

Astronomical Scales

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners describe the different units of measurement. In this space science lesson, students calculate astronomical distances using a scale. They explain the significance of using scientific notation in expressing very small or very...
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Curated OER

Anatomy of the Brain

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Pupils explore the brain. In this science instructional activity, students view a diagram of the brain and discuss the various regions of the brain. Pupils discuss the importance of protecting the brain and design a protective covering.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement:african Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps

For Teachers 9th - 10th
One of the New Deal programs, the Civilian Conservation Corps, provided over a quarter of a million young black men with jobs and was thus another arena of the struggle for greater equality. This lesson explores that struggle and its...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: New Deal Sac

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A structured academic controversy opportunity to peruse and analyze documents to ignite a debate over the success or failure of the New Deal.
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Stanford University

Sheg:document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: New Deal and World War Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An inclusive unit on the New Deal and World War II with lessons about Social Security, the Zoot Suit Riots, the Dust Bowl, Mexican migration in the 1930s, the atomic bomb, Japanese internment, and the...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Economics of the New Deal

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The stock-market crash of 1929 is generally seen as the start of The Great Depression, the worst economic downturn in the history of the United States. The Depression had devastating effects on the country. But it also served as a...
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US National Archives

Docsteach: The New Deal: Revolution or Reform?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will analyze primary sources related to the New Deal. They will analyze specific documents to determine if overall the New Deal represents a revolution or a reform in our history.
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Where Was the New Deal?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will identify three New Deal programs - the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and Works Progress Administration (WPA) - locate where projects associated with each took place,...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Fdr: Fireside Chats, the New Deal, and Eleanor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Curriculum Unit, students will consider "FDR: Fireside Chats, the New Deal, and Eleanor" in 5 Lessons. The unit also includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: New Deal Programs: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Photographs and life histories aid students in examining the lives of real people during the Great Depression, specifically those impacted by the New Deal programs and agencies. The culminating student products of this lesson plan will...
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: An Example of Greek New Comedy

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site is actually an in-depth lesson plan for the teaching of the Greek New Comedy, "The Grouch," by Menander. For students, it provides a great deal of detail about the play and background material on Greek comedy as a whole....
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US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Fdr's First Inaugural Address

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Features background on FDR and his platform for dealing with the Great Depression. Included are primary source documents of his first inaugural address and photos related to his New Deal programs.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Great Depression in North Carolina: Experiences

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan will result in imaginary Works Progress Administration (WPA) interviews similar to those found in American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 of the Library of Congress that...
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Great Depression and the 1990s

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students frequently echo sentiments such as, "The government is too big," or "The government should make welfare mothers pay for their own needs." It seems that many citizens, high schoolers included, have begun to believe in reduced...
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Utopian Communities, 1800 1890

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site is a lesson plan for students to follow for an assignment dealing with Utopian communities but it does include some background on some of the various Utopian communities of the 19th century.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: How the Crusades Led to the Finding of the New World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The lesson will help students to discover the importance of the Crusades to the expansion of many European countries. Students will also be introduced to new products and find out why explorers were willing to risk all to locate new...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Showing How to Deal With Anger

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Molly Bang's book, When Sophie Get's Angry-Really, Really Angry, provides students with positive ways of dealing with anger. When students explore their own methods of dealing with anger and then talk and write about new ways of...
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Internal Revenue Service

Understanding Taxes : The Wealth Tax of 1935 and the Victory Tax of 1942

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan from the Internal Revenue Service gives the history of the progressive income tax which helped fund the social programs implemented during the Great Depression, and the war effort after the country joined the Allies in...

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