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Forced to Flee: Famine and Plague

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine facts about the Irish Potato Famine and explore primary resources, such as newspaper articles, photographs, songs, and poems, related to the famine. Once research is complete, they create a small collage of their...
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Irish Flag

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this flag coloring worksheet, learners color in the Irish flag. There are no directions given as to where the students find the proper colors to fill in the flag.
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Irish Leaf Coloring Page

For Students 1st - 4th
In this artistic worksheet, learners trace, several times, and color an Irish leaf. Students share their colored pages with their classmates.
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Social Reformation-Irish Immigration in the 1800s

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discuss the causes of the influx of Irish immigrants between 1800 and 1875. They focus on what immigrants' lives were like in the United States and what impact the move across the Atlantic had on thier families. They complete a...
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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Immigrant Discrimination

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
For a class learning about Chinese and Irish immigration in America, here's a great starting lesson plan. It has your critical thinkers examining song lyrics, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and a political cartoon, and finally...
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Cultural Explorations in Ancient Ireland

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct Internet research on the history of ancient Ireland. They create a rubric for evaluating information sources. Students explore how to create a story map depicting the events in an Irish myth. They create an artistic...
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Celebrating St. Patrick's Day with Dance

For Teachers 4th - 11th
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by teaching your class how to do an Irish jig. This type of dance is very fast. Break it all down and teach each section of the dance thoroughly. There are plenty of hops, kicks, toe touches, and stomps in...
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The Great Famine in Ireland By William Bennett

For Students 7th - 9th
Responding to text is a very important skill that follows learners wherever they go. They respond to two comprehension questions after reading an excerpt from William Bennett's The Great Famine in Ireland. They consider what they read in...
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Forced to Flee: Famine and Plague

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students examine events the lead people to emigrate. In this Irish Potato Famine lesson, students research primary and secondary sources regarding the Irish Potato Famine and collaborate to create a classroom mural depicting the famine...
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Celebrating St. Patrick's Day with Dance

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Students perform Irish dances. In this Irish dance lesson, students learn a variety of dance steps and use these dances for physical activity, fun, and exercise.
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Ireland – Key Words – Matching Exercise

For Students 8th - 12th
In this Irish vocabulary learning exercise, students match the 12 terms listed on the left to their appropriate definitions on the right.
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Frontier Culture Museum - Irish Exhibit

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this museum exhibit worksheet, students answer questions related to the Irish Exhibit at the Frontier Culture Museum. Questions ask students about tools used in Ireland.
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Breaking News English: Irish Woman in $135 Million Lotto Win

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "Irish Woman in $135 Million Lotto Win," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Cutting Dotted Lines

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this cutting lines worksheet, students practice cutting 4 dotted lines that stop at 4 pictures of an Irish shamrock, pot of gold, hat and a rainbow.
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Bloody Sunday Coursework

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Bloody Sunday worksheet, students follow a detailed outline to create an essay pertaining to this significant event in Irish history.
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Do The Research! "Bloody Sunday" Massacre in Ireland

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Irish history research learning exercise, students do research to find information about the "Bloody Sunday" Massacre in Ireland. Using the information found, students answer 4 general short essay questions.
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Activity
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Growing Shamrocks!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students discover Irish heritage by planting seeds.  In this botany lesson, students utilize a shamrock cookie cutter to create a form which they can grow alfalfa inside.  Students observe the plant growing over the next few weeks.
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St. Patrick's Day Counting

For Students Pre-K - K
In this counting worksheet, learners analyze a picture of Irish flags. Students count the flags and from three number choices, color the number that tells how many.
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St. Patrick's Day: James Joyce

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Whether it's St. Patrick's Day or not, this lesson plan can be a great way to study James Joyce and how his heritage has influenced his writing. The lesson plan is meant to be used with the Gale database, specifically the Student...
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The Irish Potato Famine and Immigration

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study how the potato famine affected the Irish population. They speculate on how the Irish were viewed by the English and the new Americans. They examine why the Irish immigrated to the new colonies. and evaluate how new...
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Irish Eyes: Taking a Look at Local Landscape

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students create landscape flyers of local landscapes using digital photography, educational software, and examples of Irish landscapes. This creative-project lesson lasts two weeks, including class time spent collecting photographs...
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Sir Robert Peel: Second Baronet (1788-1850)

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Who was the second Baronet in Great Britain, you ask? Why, it was non other than Sir Robert Peel! Learn all about Sir Peel's life, politics, and contributions to British policy. If this isn't what your class is studying in school, it...
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Letter Writing

For Students 5th - 8th
Is letter writing becoming a lost art? In this age of Facebook, Twitter, and e-mail introduce your kids to the three P's--paper, pen, and postage. Although written from an Irish point of view, the materials in this packet model how to...
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The Sounds of Daydream

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Based on the poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by Irish poet William Butler Yeats, this resource is well constructed and guides learners through examining the Yeats poem (rhyme, meter, content) to composing a poem of their own about a...

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