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Kodak: Social Studies Lesson Plans

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This Kodak site has twelve lesson plans submitted by teachers from every grade level. Each activity integrates photography into the lesson.
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Maine Council for the Social Studies (Mcss)

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the organization, its goals, membership, activities, and meetings. Links to other social studies websites are included.
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Learning Enrichment:reading Skills in the Social Studies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Discussion of the critical reading skills needed in Social Studies, although the skills discussed can apply to a variety of areas. This is part of a larger site containing numerous lesson plans for Social Studies, and this page is really...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Heroines & Social Media

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students will learn about Queen Zenobia of Palmyra who led her soldiers to challenge the Roman Empire. Then, they will select another famous heroine from history and create a fictional Facebook profile for her as a form of biography....
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Teachers Network: Writing a Short Story Based on Kindred

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, learners will engage in the technology, social studies, and language arts standards as students engage in reading by Octavia Butler's book entitled Kindred. Learners will research tslavery. Students will keep a...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Teacher's Guide for the Exhibition "Virtues of Memory"

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Many survivors chose to release their feelings about the Holocaust through art. This artwork can be used in the classroom to create a more vivid way of understanding the Holocaust. Students will analyze and interpret some of this artwork...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Stories From Africa

For Teachers 1st - 5th
At the end of this instructional activity, students will have a better understanding of the size of the African elephant. This could be used in an animal science unit, a measuring unit in math, an extension to literature, or for social...
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Crayola

Crayola: Kwanzaa Symbol Strips (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Use this activity from Crayola as part of your Kwanzaa celebration. The lesson plan incorporates social studies and visual arts as learners learn to create the traditional Adinkra weaving patterns used on Kente cloth. Combine several...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Comprehension strategies are conscious plans - sets of steps that good readers use to make sense of text. Comprehension strategy instruction helps students become purposeful, active readers who are in control of their own reading...
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Ancient Egypt

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page includes a lesson plan, a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities, and an extensive vocabulary list of words pertaining to Ancient Egypt.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Using Area as an Architect (Stations Day 1)

For Teachers 3rd Standards
In this multi-day activity, 3rd graders make 3 different models of an orphanage floor plan using Google Drawing, Virtual Graph paper, and a construction of rectilinear shapes, to calculate the area of each room using units square.
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Sfmoma: Art Think

For Teachers 9th - 10th
ArtThink lessons and activities show how interrelated art is with other disciplines, such as language arts and social studies, and teaches us that there are many way to look at and understand a piece of art. The glossary does more than...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Chinese Calligraphy & Ink Painting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore Chinese culture while creating unique pieces of calligraphy with watercolor paint. This two-part lesson plan includes an assessment rubric and a list of sources to use as a reference.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Personal Stories and Primary Sources

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Learners will explore the value of personal stories and first-hand accounts when exploring history, in this case, the events of the early twentieth century, which included World War I and the Great Depression. Through this five-unit...
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Family Education

Family Education: Top Ten Ways to Explore a City

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use these tips when you are planning a family trip to a new city, or when you realize that you don't know your children don't know your own home town very well.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Lesson Plan: You Were There!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Comprehensive activity plan for elementary-level young scholars that uses literature to enhance social studies content. Students read a work of historical fiction about the Boston Massacre (My Brother Sam Is Dead by James and Christopher...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Endangered Species

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research and create a brochure project on an endangered species of their choice integrating aspects of math, science, social studies, art, reading and writing. This project allows the students to make connections across the...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Text and Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will examine the work of artist Barbara Kruger and consider how visual media, such as in print and advertising, can be constructed to influence viewers' perceptions and behaviors. Students will create their own works of art...