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Museum of Tolerance

Making Lemonade: Responding to Oppression in Empowering Ways

For Teachers 11th Standards
An activity focused on tolerance encourages class members to consider how they might respond when they or someone else is the target of oppression and discrimination. After researching how some key figures responded to the anti-Semitism...
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Willow Tree

The Pythagorean Theorem

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
There isn't a more popular geometry formula than the Pythagorean Theorem! Learners understand the special side relationships in a right triangle. They use the Pythagorean Theorem to find missing sides and to solve problems. They begin...
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Inside Mathematics

Hopewell Geometry

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The Hopewell people of the central Ohio Valley used right triangles in the construction of earthworks. Pupils use the Pythagorean Theorem to determine missing dimensions of right triangles used by the Hopewell people. The assessment task...
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Curated OER

Martin Luther King

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Identify contributions that Martin Luther King, Jr. made to society through assigning a research project! Third and fourth graders write about how it felt to be discriminated against during the game. They describe something they can do...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History

Birmingham, 1963: Spring Jubilation Part 2

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
The release of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Birmingham jail, the Children's March, and the bombings of the Gaston Motel and the home of Reverend A.D. King's home. As part of a study of the civil rights movement, class members...
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School Improvement in Maryland

Immigration Legislation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What is the purpose of immigration legislation? How has this legislation evolved over the years? What are the factors that caused these changes? Class members research immigration legislation to determine whose rights the laws are...
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

Pythagorean Theorem and Its Converse

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Challenge scholars to prove the Pythagorean Theorem geometrically by using a cut-and-paste activity. They then must solve for the missing sides of right triangles.
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Curated OER

Women’s Suffrage Movement

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Though the movement for Women's Suffrage stretched over several decades and across two centuries, the final few years were the most difficult hurdle in many ways. Use a document-based question writing exercise to make inferences about...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Two Wheels and a Belt

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Geometry gets an engineering treatment in an exercise involving a belt wrapped around two wheels of different dimensions. Along with the wheels, this belt problem connects concepts of right triangles, tangent lines, arc length, and...
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National Woman's History Museum

Inventive Women - Part 1

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed Standards
While a woman didn't invent the parasol, three women received patents for their improvements to the original design of umbrellas. In the first of a two-part series on inventive women, class members investigate the patent system to...
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National Woman's History Museum

The National Woman’s Party

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Two parties led the women's suffrage movement. The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was a moderate organization while the National Women's Party (NWP) was more militant. Young historians investigate why members of the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Greater Than, Less Than, or Equal to #1, #2, #3, #4

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these four comparing numbers worksheet, students determine if the pair of numbers are greater than, less than, or equal to and use fill in the blank with the correct symbol. Students solve 120 problems.
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Curated OER

Right to Equal Opportunity

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate the concept of equal opportunity in school. In this equal opportunity instructional activity, students participate in a discussion about the fairness of certain situations in school. They listen to a story entitled,...
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Curated OER

The Price Is Right - TV Game Show

For Teachers K - 5th
Students play variation of TV game show "The Price is Right" to identify coins and their values.
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Curated OER

Civil Rights/Segregation

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate Civil Rights by participating in role-playing activities.  In this U.S. History lesson, 6th graders research the history of slavery in order to portray a story through their debating and acting abilities. ...
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Curated OER

Harriet Tubman: An American Hero

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore U.S. history by viewing a Civil Rights video. In this Harriet Tubman lesson, students identify the era in which Tubman fought for equality and list her important achievements after viewing a biographical film. Students...
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Curated OER

Equality: Children's Rights

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils and parents participate in a variety of activities designed to help them explore the similarities and differences of people. They design and wear masks, sort attribute blocks, read stories, discuss the rights and responsibilities...
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Curated OER

Debating Women's Rights

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, in groups, debate Women's Rights and compare women of the past to the women of the present.
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Curated OER

Classifying Angles: Greater Than, Less Than, or Equal to 90 Degrees?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this angles instructional activity, students analyze four angles. For each angle, students decide if it is greater, less than, or equal to a right angle. Students check the correct box.
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Curated OER

Civil Rights Movement in America

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore the Civil Rights movement as a culmination of history and cultural perspectives developed from the Slave Trade and Reconstruction. They identify leading persons and organizations and their personal philosophy to...
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Curated OER

Famous Women and Human Rights

For Teachers 4th
Student identify a famous woman who has fought for a human rights cause. They research the woman and identify the cause she fought for. They organize and display information about their famous woman on a poster.
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Curated OER

Right Triangles

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this right triangles worksheet, students solve and complete 2 different types of problems. First, they take the case of an isosceles right triangle with a given leg and hypotenuse. Then, students find the sum of the squares of the...
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Curated OER

Add and Subtract Equations with Equal Sign

For Students 1st - 2nd
Pupils match the partial equations on the left with the partial equations on the right. They determine which equations are equal and connect them with a line.
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Curated OER

Two Squares are Equal

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
This problem is sure to get your young mathematicians thinking. The idea sounds simple: one equation, solve it as many ways as you can. This is meant to get at a deeper understanding of solving quadratic equations, including some more...

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