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A Dream and an Idea: Searching for a Roadmap to Create a Country

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students compare and contrast opposing visions of government held by the founding fathers. They evaluate the roles of historical leaders in shaping the U.S. as an emerging nation.
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Using and Paying for Electricity: Finding Billing Information Online

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners use the internet to locate the nearest utilities pay center. They restate answers in the form of questions that they find online. They practice conjugating verbs into different tenses.
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Lewis and Clark in Your Local Park

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students read parts of the Journals of Lewis and Clark focusing on the descriptive writing of Meriwether Lewis. They examine pictures of animal and plant species, and listen to nature tapes. They simulate the experience of the explorers...
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Historians Interpret Sources

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners read excerpts from the historian Conover Hunt writing about John F. Kennedy and from primary source documents using the handout: Historical Sources and Historians. Students discuss and identify source types, evaluate sources,...
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Coming to America

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine the various cultures of the immigrants who came to America. Using the internet, they research various ethnic and cultural groups within the United States. They identify the reasons why people immigrated to the U.S. and...
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It's About Time

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils create their own timeline. In this social science lesson plan, students write the important events that happened in their lives on their timeline and then compare their timeline to Earth's timeline.
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Traveling Along the Indiana Underground Railroad

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners develop a deeper understanding of the role that Indiana played in the Underground Railroad while exploring Indiana Geography.
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What's It Say Today?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students consider important structures in their community -- specifically, those structures that have had a great impact on the history of their community.
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Time Travel

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders become familiar with the early explorers of our state. In addition, they conceptualize life during the 1800's in relation to their own personal histories and knowledge of 19th century events.
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WebQuests

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students work together or individually to complete a WebQuest. They gather information on topics related to music. They also practice their piano lessons in class.
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Chinese Politburo Simulation on Uyghur Terrorism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are assigned a member of the Chinese Politburo and research this person's background, position, and political beliefs. Based on their position on the Politburo, their personality, and their background before coming to power,...
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The Aral Sea: A Time for Change

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate the physical changes in the Aral Sea from the year of 1960. They conduct research to find information. Students compare and contrast the changes caused by human activity over the years. They create their own...
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Studies of the Eastern Worlds: Japan

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders, in their study of Japan, examine and discuss the effect the atomic bomb had on Japan. They watch videos and then read the story of Sadako and her magic cranes. They make their own origami cranes and write a paragraph on...
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Continuity and Change in Africa

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students become more informed about a country on the African Continent. They are more informed about the socio-political and socio-historical events within a selected country. This is done by performing research.
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National First Ladies' Library

Who Wants to be a Pioneer?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write a story based on their research of the Oregon Trail. Using the Internet and traditional sources, they engage in research about pioneer's experiences on the Oregon Trail during westward expansion. Students write a story...
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Your Chapter in Snowboard History

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students are challenged to discover facts about snowboarding and write their own chapter for an imaginary book on snowboard history for publication on the World Wide Web.
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Performance Standards/Competencies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research how children dressed during Colonial times. Students design and create life-sized likenesses of themselves, dressing the paper dolls in colonial dress.
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Termite Trails

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students observe the behavior of termites and draw conclusions about their behavior. They record data as to termite behavior and recognize elements in the experimental design which must include a hypothesis.
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Insects A-Z!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students use the Internet and other resources to find insect common names that begin with each letter of the alphabet. They write a brief description of each insect, focusing on what the insect eats and where the insect lives.
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The Great Spider Debate

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students study about the survival and hunting strategies of several different kinds of spiders. They also be introduced to scientific classification of spiders and write a brief report about one of the spider families they observe.
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Our Way of Life

For Teachers K - 12th
Students interview Native American Elders about animal migration, traditional food gathering, and subsistence. They research endangered animals, draw a game cycle, and create maps of local migration of animals.
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Celebrate You

For Teachers 1st
First graders locate place of birth on a map. They identify their birthdays and place a graphing square with their birthday written on it under the corresponding month. They compare birthdays on the graph. They read "P.B. Bear's Birthday...
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How Did the Immigrants Get to the United States?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders search TDC database for images of immigration from other countries, maps, and diaries. They identify the challenges that immigrants had to endure to reach the United States.
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What's Cookin' at Honey Creek?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are introduced to the process of prehistoric hot rock cooking in earth ovens on the Edwards Plateau of Texas. They explain the steps used in the hot rock cooking process.

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