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Interactive
Royal Society of Chemistry

Organic Formulae 2

For Students 6th - 12th
Is your chemistry class frustrated by the multitude of representations of organic molecules? Add some challenging puzzles to an otherwise ho-hum organic lesson and let the fun begin! The second of a two-part activity focused on basic...
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Graphing Elements

For Students 9th - 11th Standards
How do you graph a sentence? Scholars do just that as they represent relationships between independent and dependent variables with a graphical representation. Given a sentence, they determine the pertinent relationship and create a...
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Proportional Representation

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Sometimes the solution is all a matter of perspective. The short assessment task presents a problem to pupils that requires them to make sense of a diagram. Once learners see two similar triangles, the rest of the solution is solving a...
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Lesson Plan
Anti-Defamation League

Stereotypes of Girls and Women in the Media

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
A two-part lesson has scholars researching the stereotypes in portraying women and girls in the media and the impact of these representations. To conclude the lesson, participants write a letter of praise to sources that present positive...
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Lesson Plan
Anti-Defamation League

Is Gaming a Boy's Club? Women, Video Games and Sexism

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
High school juniors and seniors investigate the representation of women in video games. They watch a video of researcher Anita Sarkeesian who describes the response to her research attempts, and read articles related to the topic. To...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

The Question of Representation at the 1787 Convention

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
While the Constitution is considered enshrined today, its current form is the result of haggling at a secret convention in 1787. Using transcripts from the meetings and various plans as drafted by the delegates, class members unpack the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Representation of the Common Citizen From Declaration of Independence to Present

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create working definition of common citizen, and investigate and discuss important sections of Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and other Amendments. Students demonstrate...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

No Taxation Without Representation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils consider colonial rights. In this Bill of Rights lesson, students complete an activity guide that requires pupils to analyze taxation without representation. Students respond to discussion questions pertaining to taxes imposed by...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Taxation Without Representation

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders empathize with how colonists felt when they were taxed without representation. They use a metaphor of students and a school principal to describe the strained relationship that developed between the colonies and Britain.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Representation of Integers

For Students 5th - 6th
In this representation of integers worksheet, students complete a chart, representing statements as integers. An example is given for students. An answer key is included.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Proportional Representation: A Fairer Voting System?

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders work as a grade to conduct a mock election. They tally votes in two different systems and discuss if proportional representation or straight counting of votes leads to a fairer outcome.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ethnographic Film: Representations of the Other in Media

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how film represents different cultures. They think critically about these representations and how they affect people who are watching them.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Media as a Representation of Reality

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine different viewpoints and representations of events. They discover that viewpoints are constructed from different points of view. They also examine how they represent real events.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Large Decimal Rounding to Decimal Representations: Weighing a Whale

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
An interactive challenges mathematicians to round large numbers with help from a large scale that measures the weight of a blue whale. The practie's five questions include multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, true or false, and an open...
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US House of Representatives

Hispanic Congressional Representation in the Era of U.S. Continental Expansion, 1822–1898

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
New ReviewFrom the Louisiana Purchase to the Spanish-American War, the history of the United States is intertwined with the story of Hispanic Americans. Using an article about Hispanics in Congress during the 1800s, learners research their lives...
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Activity
Curated OER

Depression Era Art: The Federal Arts Project

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students research Depression-era art and WPA arts programs. They discuss the purposes of representational art, list topics that would make good representational art today, and produce a work of art representing a current theme.
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Curated OER

Market Structure

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students examine the different types of market structures. They analyze these structures using diagrammatic representations.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Chinese Minority Cultures

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders identify the elements that characterize culture in literature. Students analyze the representation of Chinese minority peoples through textbooks. Students identify and interpret the differences among the people of China.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Graphically Speaking

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover the links between population and Congressional representation. In this government lesson, students research population statistics and create spreadsheets that compare population to the number of Congress members per state.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Major Events Leading to the American Revolution

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students explore the causes of the American Revolution. For this taxation without representation lesson, students analyze political cartoons in order to gain an understanding of the efforts of the colonists to resolve conflict with...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Handling Data: Representing Date - Online Version

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Here is an online lesson plan on data representation. In it, learners access websites embedded in the plan which lead them through a variety of activities around data representation and statistics. The activities are quite good, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Stamp Act: Virtual Representation vs. Actual Representation

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders research and discuss the different points of view of colonists in terms of taxation, as well as how these viewpoints helped lead to the revolution.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Legislators and Representation - Executive, Federal and Interest Group Relations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the interaction between the legislature and other governmental institutions. They watch videos exploring the relationship between the state legislature and two government institutions, and the role of lobbyists on...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Legislators and Representation - Issue Complexity and Compromise

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research the web sites of state or federal executive departments, and prepare summaries of the department's functions, locations, and programs. They debate the role of interest groups in government.

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