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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Fannie Lou Hamer

For Students 9th - 10th
This Ibiblio.org Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee site offers a brief biography on Fannie Lou Hamer.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: m.l. King, Jr.: Identifying With a Hero

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that attempts to help younger students understand and identify with Martin Luther King, Jr. through reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities. Encourages students to attempt to live out King's "Dream," in their own lives.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Sncc and Core

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), two groups that played pivotal roles in organizing nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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American Counseling Association

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lifelong human development is the American Counseling Association's focus. Professional counselors will find support for their own development. Features includes government relations, leadership listings, media/public, news, and bulletin...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Makes a Good or Bad Leader?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
After deciding on the criteria of a good leader, students research either a good or bad leader, create a class presentation of that person which focuses on his/her impact on history. Students then write and perform a three to four minute...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Service Learning Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will design and implement a service project to be done as a class in a familiar community (neighborhood or school).
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: George Washington as Military Leader (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about George Washington's role as a military leader in this lesson that asks young scholars to evaluate issues relating to military power, Washington's use of strategic retreat, and his leadership in the American Revolution.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Southwest Asian Governments

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will describe the different political structures of the Middle East, explain the basic structure of the national governments in Turkey, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Early American Leaders

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this project from DiscoverySchool.com, students will identify men and women who are leaders in their community and in the world at large. From this more concrete experience, they will travel back to early America and learn on a more...
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

Ascd: The Right Questions

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Learn the Question Formulation Technique to help students express their thinking without having to depend on teacher questioning to peak their curiosity. There are 6 steps and examples of use in the classroom.
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Cuban Missile Crisis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] After reviewing documents related to United States and Soviet Union national leadership, students will discuss the reasons Russia extracted their missiles from Cuba.
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Mississippi Department of Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides access to all areas of public education in the state. Links explore such topics as grants, funding, awards and scholarships, technology, leadership, teaching certification, curriculum concerns, school and student data,...
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Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

History Is Fun: Life at Jamestown [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An extensive collection of resources for learning about the colony of Jamestown. Includes essays, lesson plans, biographies, the economics of tobacco, information about laws, leadership, and a culminating project where students design a...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Professional Learning Communities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Professional learning communities (PLC) establish a schoolwide culture that develops teacher leadership explicitly focused on building and sustaining school improvement efforts. Generally, PLCs are composed of teachers, although...
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PBS

Pbs: The Roman Empire of the 1st Century: Getting to Know the Emperors of Rome

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will discuss the merits of heredity rule. After using various games, features, and video clips from the Web site, students should have learned basic information about each of nine featured emperors. Students...
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Great Schools: Online Guide to K 12 Public Schools

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource provides access to online profiles of K-12 public schools in all 50 states. Individual school profiles include test scores, facts about student ethnicity and economic level, and parent and student ratings about teacher...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Sociology: Social Structure and Interaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Virtual learning unit on social structure and interaction includes four-part instruction on the way groups develop and leadership evolves. Students will find assignments and activities, as well as links to additional sources to...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Football Team [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"The Football Team" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the goals of a school football team including learning leadership, teamwork, and sportsmanship. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Egypt's Greatest Leaders (Lesson Plan About the Pharaohs)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A plan for investigating the leadership styles of seven of Egypt's most famous pharaohs using video footage from the PBS series "Egypt's Golden Empire." Includes directions for helping students prepare creative presentations on the life...
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Bill of Rights Institute

Bill of Rights Institute: John Witherspoon

For Students 9th - 10th
He was a father figure to America's Founders. A renowned theologian from Scotland, John Witherspoon educated many young men who became prominent leaders of the Founding generation. He went on to embrace the revolutionary cause. He signed...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Education Agency: The Latest Tea News

For Students 9th - 10th
News from the Texas Education Agency, the state agency that oversees primary and secondary public education. The mission of TEA is to provide leadership, guidance, and resources to help schools meet the educational needs of all students.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Battle to Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive lesson, students examine the arguments, leadership, messaging, and tactics of leading women's organizations involved in the battle over ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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THEJournal

The Journal: Making Sense of Nclb

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A series of links to articles originally published as a supplement to THE Journal on the No Child Left Behind Legislation (NCLB). These articles focus on the four key areas of accountabilhnology products that meet NCLB requirements.ity,...
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Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
An online look at the role Atlanta played in all parts of the Civil Rights Movement.

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