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Jewish Heroes Congress

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore Jewish heroes throughout history. In this character development and history lesson plan, students work in groups to research a Jewish hero. A life-size model of the hero is constructed. Students participate in a Jewish...
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Philanthropy Play

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students simulate and role play people involved in the act of helping others.
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Women in Two Countries: Japan and America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the role of women in Japan and the United States during World War Two. They focus on women and the family and women and the workplace and the changes within each. Students create an informational brochure of women...
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Governance

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice decision making. In this government lesson plan students role play making different types of decisions. They discuss how decisions affect life. The Great Binding Law of the Iroquois Confederacy is used as a focus.
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Making Friends

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore how to choose and make friends through character cards that represent their favorite characters. They can drerss as their characters or use the cards as stick puppets to role play their friendly conversations.
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Coral Bleaching: Making Our Oceans Whiter

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study coral reefs and the controversy over coral bleaching. They role-play a debate over the issue and come up with a compromise to protect the reefs and the economies that depend on them.
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Who is the Real Roman?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners describe what everyday life was like in ancient Rome and identify the various classes of people living in ancient Rome. They participate in a game called "The Real Roman," role-playing and trying to convince the class they are...
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Drawing My Family

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this drawing family members worksheet, students cut out ten frames, draw a picture of each family member in each one and label each picture with the family members name on the lines provided.
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Faith-Based Initiatives: Separation of Church and State

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the role of religion in everyday life. In this religion and ethics lesson, students investigate the use of government funds to support faith-based initiatives. The lesson calls for students to conduct research, watch...
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Laws and Rules

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in a role play about laws and rules where they portray an authority figure, or portray someone who has to obey the law. In this sociology and law lesson plan, 1st graders discuss the purpose of laws and rules....
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From a Bill to a Law

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore government by participating in a role playing activity. In this legal system lesson, students discuss the tasks which needed to be competed in order to write a bill and have it turned into law by the President. Students...
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Your Own Classroom Court

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students role play a court with lawyers, a judge, jury, and more. In this classroom court lesson plan, students review rules of the law in the judicial system.
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Giving It the Old College Try

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars discuss opinions they have about entering college. Reading an article on advice from parents, they discuss what their own parents are telling them. They role-play different conflict resolution scenerios. They also write a...
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Eruption!

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners role-play as villagers, the governor, volcanologists, or the press in a simulation about the possible threat of a nearby volcanic eruption.
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It's All Part of the Story

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore storytelling through pantomime, improvisation, and dramatization. They watch an online video, discuss Native American earth stories, role-play various situations, explore websites, and present an oral story to the class.
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Arson

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students watch a documentary film about arson and why children sometimes commit arson. They role play a scenario in which the school was deliberately set on fire. They develop a news report in which they interview three people regarding...
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The Women of Afghanistan

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students examine traditional role of women in Afghanistan, their experiences under rule of Taliban, and their struggle to provide better lives for themselves, their families, and their country in years since 2001. Students then organize...
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Teaching with Video in an English Class

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a video English class. In this video activity, students read a play then video activities they do to better understand the play. Students video themselves answering questions about the play then listen to the...
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Criticism - The Great Inhibitor

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore how to handle criticism in the work place. In this conflict resolution instructional activity, students examine how criticism deters assertive behavior and role-play on how to respond to criticism in the work place.
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Clothing and Social Change in America

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine how clothing for men and women has changed over time with their changing roles in society. Students work individually and in groups to complete the tasks in this lesson plan.
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Understanding the Needs of the Aging

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students indicate behaviors, age expectations and attributes of the common roles of older adults. They identify age norms within students own values.
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All Around the Neighborhood - Part 3

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders illustrate the roles, responsibilities, and skills of community members and write a paragraph that summarizes the importance of those roles, responsibilities, and skills. They are asked: "What is a role?" Students are...
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Workers Who Help Us At School (Part 2)

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the roles and responsibilities of various school workers. They identify the skills that school workers need to complete their jobs. Students discuss what a role is. They discuss the term responsibility.
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SCIENCE ROLE PLAYS

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a play in which each person in the group is a "character" or part of a system.  In this creative instructional activity students are assigned a process in which they write a script about with characters. 

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