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Curated OER

Telling The Truth

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the importance of telling the truth. They read a story about honesty and sing a song. Students volunteer to sit in a speak easy chair and share their happiest moments, times when they were glad to tell the truth, and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Half-Truths Reading Comprehension

For Students 4th - 5th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a text about telling half-truths. Students answer 5 multiple choice questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Truth And Owning Up

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate the moral obligation of telling the truth and what the implications are for not doing so. They define what a lie is and how it deviates from the truth. The skill of mending a mistake is taught to encourage students...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Well of Truth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners read and explore an Egyptian folktale. In this folktale lesson plan, students read the book The Well of Truth and discuss geographical facts about Egypt. Learners complete several reading comprehension activities including a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Give Me Liberty

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the lives and societal contributions of Patrick Henry and Sojourner Truth. They complete a series of lessons that compare and contrast the biographies, historical context and work of these two revolutionaries.
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Curated OER

Myth and Truth: The First Thanksgiving

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Encourage learners to think critically about common myths regarding the Wampanoag Indians in Colonial America. They discover that behind every myth are many possible explanations—and that learning more about American history helps them...
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Curated OER

Blog Your Truth

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore communication by participating in a digital journalism activity. In this aboriginal research lesson, students view a sample blog on the Internet and identify the techniques behind blogging and Internet journalism...
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Activity
PBS

The Lowdown — Rot and Rubbish: The Rancid Truth about How Much Food We Waste

For Students 6th Standards
Compare waste a percent at a time. The resource contains an infographic on food waste. Using images, the informative activity describes the amount and types of food waste that occur. Pupils compare the percentage of waste from their...
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Lesson Plan
C-SPAN

Choice Board - Conversations with Suffragists

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Celebrate 100 years of women's suffrage by planning a re-enactment of famous women discussing their fight. After learners view a series of interviews with famous women played by actors, including Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Problems!!!

For Students 5th - 8th
In this word problems worksheet, learners read word problems about one person telling the truth and one telling a lie and they figure out which is which. Students complete 4 problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

In the Land Of the Truth Tellers and The Liars

For Students 9th
In this algebra learning exercise, 9th graders figure out who is telling the truth and who is lying. They have to figure which tribe an inhabitant is from based on if they are telling the truth or not. This is a riddle with an answer key.
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Curated OER

Storytellers: Pearl Jam "Never Let Truth Get in the Way of a Good Story"

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars analyze the lyrics from a Pearl Jam song and examine the concept of truth in political advertising. They watch the video, "VH1 Storytellers: Pearl Jam," participate in a class discussion, conduct research, and prepare a...
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Curated OER

Truth and love by Ghandi and King: Experimenting with Satyagraha

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research Ghandi's philosophy of Satyagraha. In this Satyagraha instructional activity, students see how Martin Luther King incorporated Ghandi's "truth-force" philosophy into the Black Freedom Movement. They see how this...
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Curated OER

Truth and Advertising

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students view and analyze fragments of advertising images from magazines to become familiar with different techniques used to sell products, write captions for advertisements, and create their own advertisements from scratch based on...
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Curated OER

Stretching the Truth

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders visualize different percentages as parts of a whole on visual images. They observe alterations of photographs, and models of circles, squares and sets. This incredibly detailed, eight-page plan leads you through everything...
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Worksheet
Reading Through History

Ain't I a Woman?

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech has reverberated through American history, giving voice to women of color who had not previously been heard. Learners analyze the tone, audience, purpose, occasion, and speaker of the speech’s...
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Activity
Teaching Tolerance

Truth to Power: Writing Letters for Change

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Can letter writing really create social change? Pupils create and mail formal letters addressing a specific organization to promote social change they wish to see. Class members reflect on the process and responses they received in small...
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Lesson Plan
Teaching Tolerance

The Truth About Voting

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
True or False: Only Presidential elections matter. Academics delve into common voting myths to understand what is true and why the election process is critical to democracy. The lesson uses group discussion, activities, and handouts to...
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eBook
Core Knowledge Foundation

Early Presidents and Social Reformers

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An ebook by Core Knowledge features information about early United Stated presidents such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and social reformers such as Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglas.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Truth Shall Set Them Free?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the notion and purpose of truth commissions, They work in groups to predict the commission's effectiveness in its efforts to promote peace and reconciliation among Liberians. Finally, students create found poems that...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Naked Truth?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this the naked truth worksheet, students, with a partner, complete eleven sentences with words from a word band associated with being naked, match up four nudity jokes with their appropriate punchlines and have a conversation over...
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Unit Plan
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National Wildlife Federation

An Inconvenient Truth in the Classroom

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Global warming — what a hot topic! A thorough unit challenges learners to research, read, explore, and write about carbon, its role and increasing nature in our atmosphere, and how global warming is affecting lives and environments...
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Speak Truth to Power

Elie Wiesel: Speaking Truth to Genocide to Power

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Invite your learners to discover the efforts of Night author Elie Wiesel to promote awareness of genocide in the world. After watching and reading an interview of Elie Wiesel, high schoolers work to create a living Holocaust museum by...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Betsy Ross Story: Truth or Legend?

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Young scholars discover that some historians question the story of Betsy Ross's involvement in the creation of the first U.S. flag, study why historians question the story and list reasons the story of Betsy Ross might not be true.

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