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Community Helpers Wheel
Students play a game to reinforce the understanding that some community helpers are producers of goods, and some provide a service. Students identify community helpers and their jobs.
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What Difference Do Good and Bad Make?
Students discuss the characteristics of good citizenship, listen to the story, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and develop and present skits demonstrating examples of good and bad behaviors.
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Bathtime Fun
Students recognize the importance of bathing and to identify parts that should be washed in the bath tub. Theyl name different parts they wash in the tub (ex. face, ears, arms, hands, legs, feet, stomach/tummy, and back)
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The Shadow Knows - Measuring Other Students
Eighth graders measure height and shadow length of other students on a sunny day and develop a ratio. They apply the ratio to other students and objects using shadows to determine height.
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Where Is Japan? How Far Is That?
First graders use literature and hands-on activities with maps and globes to explain distance and tools used to measure distance. They select tools to measure various objects in the classroom, then apply those concepts to their map...
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Swiss Bank Accountability: Mock Trial
Students use a variety of sources to construct a case defending and prosecuting the Swiss government for their role in Nazi gold transactions during World War II. They practice research techniques, persuasive writing and speaking.
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Requiem The Song of the Murdered Jewish People
Students read poem The Song of the Murdered Jewish People, listen to Requiem based on poem, work on reading poem as music plays, discuss reasons for composer's musical choices, and investigate possibilities of performing a reading for an...
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Resistance during the Holocaust
High schoolers define and discuss resistance and distinguish types of resistance, watch video Courage to Care, research partisans and identify their main objective, and research facts behind proposed Auschwitz bombing and White Rose...
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Prejudice Discussion
High schoolers discuss ethical dilemmas in a cooperative setting, and compare today's social problems with those present during the rise of the Nazi party.
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Forgotten Daughters
Students research gender oppression in Nazi Germany and organize and develop presentations. They identify patriarchal and Fascist policies in Nazi Germany.
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All Men Are Created Equal
Learners evaluate and compare events in history using famous quotes. They create a bulletin board of famous quotes dealing with equality. They create a multimedia presentation using famous quotes on the theme, All Men are Created Equal.
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Holocaust Activities: In the Original Words
Students read, translate, and discuss documents and reports of the Holocaust in the original language.
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Holocaust Lesson Plan: Timeline
Young scholars explore the chronology of the Holocaust, make connections between Holocaust events and contemporaneous world events and acquire a frame of reference for comparing their reading with actual events during the time of the...
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Letter of Memorial
Students practice reading and writing skills in a foreign language. They write a letter in memory of victims or asking that readers remember the lessons of the Holocaust.
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Building a Mini-park And Bird Sanctuary Lesson 3: Location, Location, Location
Students work cooperatively using the democratic process to select a place for a park. They identify how the garden in the park will look. They write a five paragraph essay as an assessment.
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Rainbow Book
Students examine the different types of weather. They create illustrations of the type of weather to go into a class book. They are encouraged to examine the weather each day,
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Clouds
Second graders explore how to identify cloud types by observing clouds. They record data and have fun by applying newly acquired knowledge throughout the curriculum.
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TRADITION WITH A TWIST
Students come prepared with their strips previously cut and sew some strip sets together and have them cut the completed strip sets into sections. They stack the needed sctions for the required blocks of units and set all units together.
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Testimony: A Lesson in Creating Poetry
Students closely analyze testimony from the Holocaust. They express, in poetic form, meanings students created in their analysis. They react to written passages from the time period.
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The Lily Cupboard by Shulamith Ley Oppenheim
Students demonstrate knowledge of what a hero does, discuss concepts of persecution and hiding, identify ways Nazis persecuted Jews, and analyze reasons and motivations that caused people to take a stand.
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Headlines
Students analyze how newspapers report the news and compare the events that they now know about World War II as compared to what was publicized back then.
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News Watch
Students examine newspaper articles that deal with human rights issues, prejudice, ethnic wars, antisemitism, racism, and inequality.
