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Investigating the Building Blocks of Our Community’s Past, Present, and Future

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
As Ken Jennings said, "There's just something hypnotic about maps." Certainly, the longer you look at them the more you can learn. In this project-based learning lesson, individuals study both historic and present-day maps of...
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Curated OER

Past, Present and Future Through the Eyes of Long Jakes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Even the littlest learners can become art historians if they have the right training. For the lesson, your preschoolers discuss the piece Long Jakes as they point out all the details they notice. They discuss what mountains and mountain...
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K20 LEARN

Native American Education - Past, Present, and Future: Assimilation

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
To understand the history of Native American education, high schoolers examine the record of young scholars who attended the Carlisle Indian School from 1879-1918. They also examine sources that contain information about indigenous...
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Curated OER

Technology: Past, Present, and Future

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine inventions of the past and present and explore how inventions inspire and lead to the development of other inventions.
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Curated OER

Time to Hang Out

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students create a timeline and reinforce the concepts of past, present and future as well as scale.
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Curated OER

Schools of the Past and Present

For Teachers 1st
First graders take a look at schools of the past and present, and try to conjure an idea of what schools of the future will look like. After taking a walk around their own school and taking note of the buildings and the things that are...
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Curated OER

Kentucky: Past, Present and Future

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders analyze how Kentucky's past is different from the present. They research why Kentucky was even explored and settles. What social issues face Kentucky now. Discussion lies on how Kentucky can be improved for the 21st century.
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Curated OER

Past, Present, and Future: Career Exploration and Planning

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders write an autobiography about their future.  In this career education lesson, 10th graders write about the future based on their career goals. Students troubleshoot possible obstacles to fulfilling a life...
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Curated OER

American Literature - The American Dream: Past, Present, and Future

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars are introduced to the ideas of the American Dream at the turn of the century. They present their ideas on the American Dream at the turn of the century through a person characterized in Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River...
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Curated OER

The Spirits of Toys Past, Present and Future

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the evolution of toys and explore how the toy industry has adapted their products in response to advances in technology and changing customer expectations.
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Curated OER

Trash: Past, Present and Future

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how much trash they create. In this recycling lesson plan, students define stewardship and conduct an experiment to see how much trash the class produces in a week. At the end of the week the students propose ways to...
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Griffen Publishing

Learning From the Past

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The big idea for this lesson is that the past enriches our present and future. Learners explore the origin of the Olympic Games and how one man took an event from the past and reinvented it for modern times. They compare and contrast the...
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Carnegie Mellon University

International Perspectives to Climate Change 1

For Teachers 8th - 12th
After a lecture about how the first industrial revolution triggered the path to climate change, your environmental studies class discusses what the impacts are. In a culminating activity, they get into groups and identify countries on a...
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Curated OER

Family Life in America: Past, Present and Future

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders brainstorm the economic and social functions of a family. In groups, they research the roles of each member of a family in the past and compare it with their family today. In groups, they develop criteria for what the...
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Curated OER

Future tense

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the function of verbs when considering tense. They read a story that is written in past tense and discuss how to change it to future tense. Students transform a news story from past to future tense.
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A Christmas Carol Chronology

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Which comes first? The Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, or Future? What clues can readers use to establish the chronology of A Christmas Carol? The tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, Marley, and Tiny Tim provides the text for an activity that...
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Curated OER

My Family: Past, Present,

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the lives of actual people who make a difference in their everyday lives. They differentiate between events that happened long ago and events that happened yesterday by studying their family histories. The unit...
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Curated OER

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies/Chapter 13, Lesson 1 The Past Shapes the Future (pp. 292-295)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders reflect upon the events of the past in order to make cognitive connections to present or future history. Students use Blooms Taxonomy to attain higher levels of thinking.
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Curated OER

Dashboard of the Future

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students design dashboards for vehicles in 2020. After researching past and current trends in vehicle design, they sketch alternatives and select one to draw with computer-assisted design software (CAD), labeling all the components. With...
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Curated OER

Calendar Skills

For Teachers 1st
First graders use an October calendar to trace numbers, trace letters, and identify dates as being in the past, present, and future. In this Social Studies lesson plan, 1st graders label events on the calendar in order to gain deeper...
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Curated OER

Playful Verbs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read sentences and determine whether the verb tense of the sentence is past, present, or future. They play a game in which they identify the correct tense and move along on the game board.
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Curated OER

Designing the Future of Technology

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Conduct research focused on improving a current technology by having students work in groups to investigate improvements that could be made to a particular piece of technology. They list the current problems and attempt to develop...
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Curated OER

Mobility: A Green City, Past, Present, and Future

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore transportation systems through history. In this transportation lesson, students determine how modes of transportation affect quality of life and design transportation plans for cities.
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Education World

Select the Tense

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this verb tenses worksheet, students learn the past, present, and future verb tenses. Students analyze the examples and then read 15 sentences. Students write the correct verb tense: past, present, or future.

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