Curated OER
Women in India: Tradition vs. Modernity
Learners explore cultural aspects such as gender roles and their impact on Indian culture and compare and contrast issues associated with those roles in America through literature.
Curated OER
Ecotourism in National Parks and Wilderness
Pupils research a wilderness or natural area and develop a plan for ecotourism.
Curated OER
Volcanoes: How Safe Are They?
Students explore the most dangerous volcanoes on Earth, plot their locations, and research different volcanic hazards.
Curated OER
IN STRAWBERRY FIELDS
The student will calculate wages of agricultural workers by the hour and by the piece.2. Share background material, and discuss the difference between gross pay and net pay and the difference between getting paid by the hour or the piece...
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How Much is There to Eat?
Students research population and food consumption rates for different areas of the world.
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An International Menu
Students research etymologies using dictionaries. They explore the diverse origins of the common foods they eat after making a list of their favorite foods.
Curated OER
Volcanoes:How Safe Are They?
Students explore volcanoes, locate them on maps, record general information about volcanoes, and organize information on a fact sheet.
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By Land or by Sea...or Both?
Students research a video and participate in a discussion. In this watercraft lesson students review material and answer questions about what they learned.
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Paleo-Diving
Students study sinkholes and how they are associated with paleoamerican settlements. In this underwater exploration lesson students explain how sinkholes are formed.
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World Map and Globe
Students locate and identify continents and countries. For this world map lesson, students locate and identify one country on each continent.
Curated OER
1668 Map of Newark Activity
Eleventh graders read a map for historical information, decipher a map legend and symbols, and expand their knowledge of a historic time.
Curated OER
Artifacts We Don't Dig Up
Students play a game of artifact show and tell using household items.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: South Carolina
Explore how South Carolina moved from a "plantation culture" in 1670 to a "growing research center and banking state" today. South Carolina played a major role in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.
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Digital History
Digital History: The African American as Sharecropper [Pdf]
After reading about the system of sharecropping or tenant farming for the African American in the South, look at poverty statistics for African Americans vs. whites between 1960 and 1990. Is there a corelation between the sharecropping...
Other
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center features the history of slavery in the United States, from the gallant actions of those who organized the Underground Railroad to stories of those who escaped to freedom. Strategically...
Other
Usc News: Pnas: Topper Site in Middle of Comet Controversy
The disagreement between those who theorize that Clovis man was the first to inhabit North America and those who beleive that there was a pre-Clovis culture continues even today. Archaeologists have found evidence of pre-Clovis points at...