Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Independent - To Be or Not Top Be - Day 1, Lesson 2: Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research the thirteen significant events that lead to the start of the American Revolution.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Advanced Sentence Completion 12

For Teachers 6th - 11th
In this sentence completion worksheet, pupils choose the best word(s) to complete each sentence from five possible answer choices.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Cartoons for the Classroom: Xenophobia

For Students 8th - 12th
In this historical events worksheet, students analyze an anti-immigration political cartoon and respond to 3 talking point questions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sticks and Stones

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Students explore bullying.  In this character development lesson, students discuss verbal and nonverbal bullying. Using the "sticks and stones" adage, students write a sentence describing a hurtful act on a gray piece of paper,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Heroes, Kindness and "To Kill A Mockingbird"

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students read To Kill a Mockingbird and relate the action sof the characters to behaviors in students lives. In this heroism, bullying, kindness and compassion lesson, students identify characters who are heroes in the story....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Wake Up King George!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research the conflict between the American colonies and England and write about it. In this America verses England lesson plan, 4th graders read books, watch videos, and have class discussions about this time in history...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tolerance and Non-Violence in Civil Society

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. For this Oklahoma City bombing lesson, students submit public responses to the event in order to consider how the tragedy prompted a positive reaction. Extension activities are included.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Objects to Object to Objectification

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use math functions in part to complete a metaphorical activity on tolerance. In this math and tolerance activity, students receive rows of functions and try to find a single simple shared property without success. Students then...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Heroes, Kindness, and "To Kill a Mockingbird"

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars explore the concept of heroism. For this character education lesson, students reflect on the actions of the characters in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird as they create mission statements for Atticus Finch and prepare...
Interactive
Curated OER

Advanced Sentence Completion Exercise 13

For Students 4th - 8th
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to complete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Student answers are...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Civil liberties: Fundamental freedoms

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars explore civil liberties. They list and describe the fundamental freedoms guaranteed to Canadians. Students illustrate how Charter rights are applies. They examine current issues and suggest how the courts might apply...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Colors and Trouble

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss what it would be like if there weren't enough resources by reading " The Land of Many Colors." In this tolerance lesson plan, students identify the differences between tolerant and intolerant behavior. Student volunteers...
Worksheet
Curated OER

4th Grade Social Studies/Economics Multiple Choice Practice

For Teachers 4th
In this social studies/economics worksheet, 4th graders complete a set of 25 multiple choice questions about a variety of 4th grade concepts. An answer key is included.
Activity
University of Groningen

American History: Essays: The Intolerable Acts

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource gives a comprehensive account of the Intolerable Acts, why they were passed, colonists' reactions, and particulars surrounding the Massachusetts Government Act and other Coercive Acts with text links and references.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Intolerable Acts and the First Continental Congress

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the American colonists response to the Intolerable Acts and how it began to unify the colonists.
Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Intolerable Acts

For Students 9th - 10th
Details explaining what the Intolerable Acts were, as well as providing the full text of each act passed by the British Parliament in 1774.
Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Intolerable Acts

For Students 5th - 8th
Find the response by the British Parliament to the dumping of tea into Boston Harbor. So many laws were enacted that the colonists lumped them together and called them the Intolerable Acts.
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts

For Students 11th - 12th
From a chapter on "Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests," this section describes the socio-political environment in the colonies in the early 1770s, explains the purpose of the Tea Act of 1773, and takes a look at the Coercive Acts.
Activity
Other

Worchester Polytechnic Institute: The Intolerable or Coercive Acts

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief listing and description of the Acts of the British Parliament that were to be known as the Coercive Acts by Parliament and the Intolerable Acts by the Colonists.
Website
Digital History

Digital History:the Tea Party and Intolerable Acts [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the problems Great Britain was having with its restive American colonists who objected to taxation on their beloved tea. See how the Tea Act resulted in the Boston Tea Party and how British attemps to punish the colonists for...
Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Coercive Acts

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of the series of restrictive and punitive measures imposed by British Parliament on the colonists in response to the Boston Tea Party.
Activity
Other

The Age of George Iii: The Quebec Act, 1774

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed, informative site. Gives an overview of Lord North's decision to pass this act into law.
Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Administration of Justice Act of 1774

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete original text of the British Parliament's Administration of Justice Act of 1774 to encourage enforcement of Royal Authority.
Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Quartering Act of 1774

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the full text of the Quartering Act passed by British Parliament in 1774.