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University of Alberta

Atlas of Alberta Railways: Alberta's Early Non Indigenous Settlers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Presented by the University of Alberta, this resource contains information on the early non-indigenous settlement in the Alberta region. Information on the settlers themselves is provided as well as maps showing the growth in both...
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University of Alberta

Atlas of Alberta Railways: Land Grant System

For Students 3rd - 8th
Presented by the University of Alberta, this resource contains information on the land grant system in the Alberta region. Information on how the Canadian government used land grants in the late 19th century to spur population growth in...
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University of Alberta

Atlas of Alberta Railways: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

For Students 3rd - 8th
Presented by the University of Alberta, this resource contains information on the founding and development of The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The site also provides primary source resources in the the form of photographs, excerpts,...
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Lesson Plan: Tony's Tiger Bites

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students are given a marshmallow cereal bar recipe and are challenged to make equivalent fractions while following directions.
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Every Picture Has a Story

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Smithsonian Education presents "Every Picture Has a Story". Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students examine some of the millions of photographs in the Smithsonian. This amazing teaching package comes...
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for Lenore Look's children's book, Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things, is provided on these pages. Seven character roles are needed in this activity.
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Native American Dolls [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine dolls from the online collections at the Smithsonian and connect them with the correct cultures. Includes lots of background information about Native American clothing and how the way each cultural group dresses reflects...
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Other

Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Econ Explorers Journal [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this collection of lesson activities, learners will complete an "Econ Explorers Journal" to help them learn how economics is involved in their neighborhood, the books they read, in earning a living, at their banks, in their homes, and...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring World Cultures Through Folk Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Using international folklore as subject matter, lead your students in a unit to research literary forms and foreign countries. There is a printout available for instruction and assessment.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Bio Bags Linking Literature and Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for five 30-40 minute lessons that ask students to create BioBags, a kind of literature autobiography. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Qa Rs + Tables = Successful Comprehension of Math Word Problems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that explain how to use the question-answer relationship (QAR) strategy to make word problems easier to understand. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: My World of Words: Building Vocabulary Lists

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson has a new approach to vocabulary building where students generate their own vocabulary word lists and research the words' meanings.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading, Writing, Haiku Hiking! Class Book of Picturesque Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Contains plans for five lessons about haiku using "One Leaf Rides the Wind" by Celeste Davidson Mannis as an introduction and model. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Can You Convince Me? Developing Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four 40-minute lessons that teach persuasive writing to elementary students. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Examining Electronic Sources

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson helps elementary students identify the important components of web site evaluation. It includes a website evaluation question sheet.
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Article
BBC

Bbc Newsround: One of Pluto's Tiny Moons Finally Revealed

For Students 2nd - 5th
A look at an image of one of Pluto's many moons.
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Unit Plan
C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Children's Rights

For Teachers 3rd
A learning module on children's rights that includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include how children's rights are defined,...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Tonight's Homework Watch Cartoons

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students will make observations about different types of advertisements. Students will watch distinguish the types of advertisements shown during commercial breaks associated with their cartoons and the news.
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Royal Geographical Society

Royal Geographical Society: India: Pictures of the Past

For Students 3rd - 6th
View photographs and quotes about India's turbulent history, particularly Partition.
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Virginia Historical Society

Virginia Museum of History and Culture: Teaching With Photographs

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
"Teaching with Photographs" includes images from the Virginia Historical Society's collection. The images are organized into several themes which allows this source to be used by younger and older grades. Resources for teachers are...
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Article
BBC

Bbc Newsround: Dogs Copy Each Other's Emotions

For Students 2nd - 5th
Read about the ways in which dogs express basic empathy and engage in social bonding.
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Photo Analysis Presenting the Statue of Liberty

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
The ability to examine a primary source is a gateway to building critical thinking skills and constructing knowledge. This lesson provides the students an opportunity to observe similarities and differences between 2 visual images,...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Positive Choices: Decision Making and Problem Solving: Class Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
The aim of this activity is to teach learners the steps involved in effective decision-making/problem-solving. This skill is a useful skill for students to learn, as it will assist learners to consider all the options that are available...
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Lesson Plan
Code.org

Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: End of Course Project

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This lesson provides students with space to create a project of their own design, using a step-by-step process that requires planning but also allows for broad creativity.