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Home Ties Lesson Plan
Students interview family members to find out what their ties are with the community. They use this information to compare other cultures and times with what they have learned about the African-American culture. They create a Venn diagram.
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Return South Migration Lesson Plan
Students read the narrative "Return South Migration" and research online about the reasons many southerners returned to the south following the Civil Rights Movement. They write a letter to a friend about their decision whether or not to...
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Migration: A Dangerous Journey
Fourth graders pretend as if they're a whooping crane flying north for its migration. They write questions and predictions about what they are doing and what happen.
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Fossils and Migration Patterns in Early Hominids
Students plot the locations where major fossils of hominids have been found to extrapolate possible migratory patterns.
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Migration
Students read sections from the Migration Issue Brief concerning why migration happens and the economic and cultural effects of migration. They study about the immigrant population in their own community.
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Predicting the Route of the Monarch's Spring Migration
Young scholars consider the habits of the monarch butterfly and predict the path it take as it migrates in the spring.
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Taro
Students locate taro growing areas on a map and how it got there, explain intercultural contact and how taro has been adapted in Hawaii and trace human/taro migration to Hawaii.
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Tick-Tock: Biological Clock
Students complete several activities that stimulate their assessment of time. They consider the term 'biological clock' and how animals in the wild depend on their own internal clocks for survival.
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Hopskotch Migration
Students understand the use of the wetlands by migrating birds and identify causes for disappearance of the wetlands.