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Route 66 Challenge
In this Route 66 activity worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions that require them to exhibit the knowledge they have about the American highway.
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Route 66 Vocabulary
In this Route 66 worksheet, students match vocabulary words about Route 66 to their descriptions. Students match 10 vocabulary words.
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Route 66
Students research the Internet to locate information about the Route 66 Festival. They focus on the history of the route in Illinois and create a web page of information.
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Route 66 And Population Patterns
Students investigate the geography located along Route 66. They research how the population patterns change in certain areas along the highway. Students use the information in order to form hypotheses about how and why the population...
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People on the Move
Learners explore transportation. In this transportation lesson, students examine the Jupiter locomotive, Washingtion D.C. streetcars, the Leviathan, the Salisbury Train Station, and Route 66. Learners respond to 12 questions.
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Get Your Kicks on Route 66
Students research when and why Route 66 was started and how mom and pop businesses fit in with Route 66. Students associate what they've learned with the song.
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The Grapes of Wrath: KWHL Strategy
Before beginning The Grapes of Wrath, readers create a KWHL chart recording what they already know about the Dust Bowl, the author, and the book, what they want to know, and where they might find answers to these questions. After reading...
Reed Novel Studies
I Am David: Novel Study
Many people dream of getting a fresh start or starting over again. David, a main character in I am David, gets that chance and must learn to live life outside of the concentration camp. Scholars read about David's adventures as they...
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The Pilgrims
Students use distance measuring tools to follow directions and chart the path the pilgrims made from Plymouth, England to Boston, Massachusetts. In this Pilgrim voyage lesson, students use a map to chart the distance traveled by the...
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The Dust Bowl Odyssey
Great information, images, and wonderful higher-order thinking questions await your class. They'll discuss, consider, and examine multiple factors related to the Dust Bowl. A cross-media comparison is made between the historical events...
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Key Ingredients: America by Food
Students participate in a series of activities to explore the types of food Americans eat, how food choices differ in various parts of the country, and how the availability of various foods has changed over time.
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Key Ingredients: America By Food
In this set of five lessons, students analyze the important of food traditions, identity, and history. Students analyze how food traditions contribute to family identity, investigate family food traditions through interviews, and compare...
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Arithmetricks
In this math worksheet, students answer word problems based on previous knowledge or given the clues in the sentences. There are 14 questions with an answer key.
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Moving with the Music
Students work cooperatively to recreate the rhythms of different modes of transportation. They discuss different modes of transportation. They create movements to accompany a song.
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Cars Tag
Students participate in a tag game using characters from the Disney movie "Cars." They role-play different characters from the movie, with students wearing different colored vests or wrist bands and jogging in the Impound Area after...
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Ratio and Proportion 2
In this evaluating knowledge of ratio and proportion worksheet, 6th graders complete the mental tests simplifying ratios, solving word problems, and converting foreign money. Students solve 24 problems.
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Early Explorers
Fifth graders give a presentation about one of the explorers. In this explorers lesson, 5th graders research an explorer and give a presentation to the class. While students are presenting the others are taking notes on a graphic organizer.
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Graphs, Equations and Inequalities
In this inequalities instructional activity, 6th graders solve and complete 30 various types of problems. First, they calculate and write down a whole number for each equation. Then, students determine the gradient of a line with a given...
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Rounding and Estimating
In this rounding and estimating learning exercise, students solve 18 rounding and estimating problems. Students solve problems without a calculator.
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Statistical Diagrams
In this statistics worksheet, students explore five activities that require analysis and interpretation of maps, charts, and scatter plots. The six page lesson includes five activities or experiments with short answer...
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PEOPLE OF THE FERTILE CRESCENT
Students evaluate how technology changed life in Mesopotamia. Students summarize the link between agriculture and religion in Sumer. Students classify the Sumerians according to social classes. Students classify the causes and effects...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: The People's Highway: Route 66: 1930s 1940s
This section of the America on the Move exhibition explores the substance behind the myth of Route 66, telling the stories of real people who made their living on or beside the road and who traveled on the fabled highway.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Oklahoma
This site provides detailed descriptions of the Great Plains Native Americans. Find out more about the "Route 66 Museum." Discover how Oklahoma settlers became known as "Sooners."
Legends of America
Legends of America
"A Travel Site for the Nostalgic and History Minded". If you love history, you'll love this site. Featured is much detailed information on history, people, legends, ghost towns, outlaws, and so much more.
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