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Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Mapping the Past

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will examine European world maps from the Middle Ages, the Age of Discovery, and the period of New World exploration. They will then look at maps that record the early exploration of the American West and collect present-day...
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Website
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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Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Solar System Fact Sheet

For Students 6th - 8th
Use this handy chart to help acquaint yourself with major facts about the solar system. This chart is broken down by planet and displays data such as the size of the planet, distance from the sun, rotation period, orbital period,...
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Primary
Alabama Department of Archives and History

Adah: From Territory to State

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Here is a detailed lesson for students to explore the process of Alabama going from a territory to a state. There are document printouts and other links to help students explore all aspects of Alabama at that time.
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Interactive
Other

Calculator.net: Volume Calculator

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Use these calculator tools to find the volume, in your choice of units, of a sphere, cone, cube, cylinder, rectangular prism, capsule, ball cap, conical frustum, ellipsoid, or square pyramid. Includes a reference section listing formulas...
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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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PPT
Virginia History Series

Virginia History Series: Virginia State History Wwii Era (1940 1948) [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
WWII awakened a massive development in Virginia from manufacturing to naval bases. Follow the course of the war through pictures, maps, charts and political cartoons. Visualize life in America and abroad during the war.
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Lesson Plan
National Geographic

National Geographic: Looking Back, Looking Forward

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lesson reviews what learners have learned in the unit on European cultural and physical landscape. Students compare maps, questions and ideas from the beginning of the unit and identify new questions for research.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Wisewire: Grade 7 Playlist: Historical and Literary Comparisons

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will learn how to compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history. Included are lesson...
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Website
CPALMS

Cpalms: Lafs.8.sl.1.3

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Choose from among lesson plans, assessments, and original student tutorials to teach how to analyze a speaker's arguments.
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eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Math Foundations: Grades 6 8

For Students 6th - 8th
This is the electronic text for math foundations for grades 6-8. It is in the process of being rewritten so only specific sections are available now. More will be added over time.
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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Finding Factors

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Activities are designed to give students practice in finding the factors of whole numbers.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Life in a Native Kentucky Village

For Students 3rd - 8th
The scenes in this rollover interactive depict typical village life of Native American Indians of the Mississippian culture. The village was occupied from 1100 AD until about 1350 AD.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Shake, Rattle & Roll

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle schoolers will learn and reinforce skills for creating and analyzing scatterplots and histograms; using cost-benefit analysis to make predictions from data and using tree diagrams to understand outcomes of events.
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Website
Other

Quick Math: Graph Equations and Inequalities

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This resource is from the QuickMath website that illustrates how to graph equations, inequalities and a system.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: The Power of Probability

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will learn and reinforce skills for strategies to identify favorable and total outcomes, calculating simple and compound probability, sampling and proportions and using probability concepts to solve real-world problems.
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Lesson Plan
OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: 6.3 Weather, Climate & Water Cycling

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Why does a lot of hail, rain, or snow fall at some times and not others? This unit contains four separate lesson sets built around answering this question. In the first two lesson sets, students explain small-scale storms. In the third...
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Handout
McGill University

Mc Gill University: Canadian Biodiversity: Ecozones: Boreal Shield

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Boreal Shield runs from Alberta to Newfoundland. This is a brief, concise description of the location, climate, geology and flora and fauna. It includes a collection of images of the landscape as well as those of animals and birds...
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Handout
McGill University

Mc Gill University: Canadian Biodiversity: Ecozones: Pacific Maritime

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Pacific Maritime ecozone lies along the British Columbia coast and it's border with Alaska. This is a brief, concise description of the location, climate, geology and flora and fauna. It includes a collection of images of the...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Catastrophes of Apostrophic Proportions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An interactive exercise where students practice apostrophe use with plural nouns, singular and plural possessives, possessive pronouns, and irregular plural nouns. In each of the six sentences, students choose the correct apostrophe...
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Fairy Tales

For Students 6th - 8th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, a book of stories for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Fairy Tales and True

For Students 5th - 7th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Fairy Tales and True by Alice F. Jackson, a book of stories for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Little v.c.

For Students 5th - 7th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of The Little V.C. by Helen Marion Burnside, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Naval Cadet

For Students 6th - 8th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of The Naval Cadet by William Rainey, a fiction book for children.