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Eastern Illinois Univ.: Childhood Lost: Child Labor During Industrial Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
A unit on child labor during the Industrial Revolution. The focus is on using primary resources to learn about this issue and this time in American history. Includes many images and documents. The unit is cross-curricular with activities...
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University of Arizona

Pulse: Health Friendly Energy Production

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A cross curricular project where students conduct a moot court to explore the role government policy plays in protecting our health. The focus of the unit is how our power effects our environmental health. Students use their knowledge of...
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Fitzhenry and Whiteside: 'Archipelago' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th
"Archipelago", a novel by David Ward set in the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia, follows a boy who is transported to prehistoric times and must learn to survive there. This extensive teacher's guide includes chapter summaries...
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Fitzhenry and Whiteside: 'How to Make a Wave' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"How to Make a Wave", a novel by Lisa Hurst-Archer, is about an adolescent girl struggling to come to terms with a scar on her face and the absence of her mother. This extensive teacher's guide includes chapter summaries with...
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Fitzhenry and Whiteside: 'Greener Grass' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Greener Grass" an historical novel by Canadian author Caroline Pignat, is set in Ireland, follows a family's struggle to survive after a potato blight hits their crop and famine comes. The family has many trials along the way. This...
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Fitzhenry and Whiteside: 'Dooley Takes the Fall' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Dooley Takes the Fall", a mystery novel by Canadian author Norah McClintock for grade nine and up, is about a boy who has made some mistakes in the past. He becomes a suspect after he witnesses a boy jumping off a bridge and has to...
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Fitzhenry and Whiteside: 'The Countess and Me' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"The Countess and Me", a novel by Canadian author Paul Kropp for grades seven to nine, deals with the struggle of a thirteen-year-old boy to gain acceptance from his peers who belong to a gang. He juggles this with his feelings towards...
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Fitzhenry and Whiteside: 'A Company of Fools' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
"A Company of Fools", a novel by Deborah Ellis, is set in Paris during the year of the plague. It follows the friendship of two orphaned boys living at an abbey. This extensive teacher's guide includes chapter summaries with accompanying...
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Media Education Lab: Assignment: Media Literacy: Secondary School

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A well-done set of units that helps teachers teach the importance of media literacy to their students. Click on Secondary School Introduction to see a video of teachers in the classroom instructing students in ways of using and...
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Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Integration of Art and Drama

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A 7-day unit of lessons integrating art with drama. Artists covered include Filippo Brunelleschi, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, and five Indiana artists.
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The Tech Interactive

The Tech Museum of Innovation: Save the Hiker [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Can you build a device that will deliver life-saving treatment to someone in a hazardous situation? During this instructional activity, learners will learn how energy is converted and transferred between objects. Working in groups and...
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University of Arizona

Pulse: Powerful Explorations of Health and Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A cross curricular unit where students simulate an energy task meeting to discuss protecting human health through energy policies. The unit covers content for twelfth grade in math, physics, language arts, and government. Topics reviewed...
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University of Arizona

Pulse: Dawn of New Revolutions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A cross curricular unit focusing on how much and what kinds of foods are produced because of pesticides and genetically engineered foods. Students will investigate the impact on humans due to the new technology in food production. Topics...
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University of Arizona

Pulse: Industrialization, Chemicals and Human Health

For Teachers 9th - 10th
While students gain an understand of basic environmental toxicology, they explore the health impacts of industrialization on society in these lessons. This is a cross curricular unit that addresses standards for eleventh grade in math,...
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Lesson Plan: The Civil War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The books about the Civil War period written for young audiences provide a rich context in which to learn about the war itself and to explore more basic issues about the nature of human life and society. This lesson plan for an upper...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hop on Pop and Non Standard Measurement

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan is a hands-on, cross-curricular lesson plan for exploring non-standard measurement. It utilizes children's literature, manipulatives, opportunities for writing, and small group collaborative learning. Students will...
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Eduscapes: Themes & Literature Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides guidance in creating literature circles based on cross-curricular themes that will help to improve literacy. The site emphasizes both theory and practice, with lots of practical suggestions.
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Poor Pat Must Immigrate

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Cross-curricular plan for lessons on the immigration of the Irish to America in the 1800s. Source material includes ballads of the immigrant experience, letters, scrapbook pages and notices to the 'Catholic Herald' seeking information...
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The Virtual Vine: Be My Valentine Unit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Here you will find a cross-curricular Valentine's Day unit! The unit includes a booklist, project ideas, and Valentine's Day songs.
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Geography Through Literature Pacific Islands

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This site is a highly detailed unit plan. That crosses almost all the disciplines, with "Call it Courage," as the beginning point. Links to a .pdf file and Word versions of handouts are available.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Triathlon and Fitness

For Students 5th - 8th
The triathlon is a physically gruelling challenge. Can you work out which athlete burnt the most calories? This activity provides a real-life context for working with proportionality, speed, rates, and units of measurement and is aimed...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Nutrition and Cycling

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you analyse the nutritional needs of a long-distance cyclist to help him plan his calorie intake? This activity provides a real-life context for handling data, converting units and proportional reasoning and is aimed at secondary...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Alternative Record Books

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a look at the amazing limits that athletes push themselves to in search of Olympic glory. Which events see the fastest speeds, furthest distances and highest forces? This activity challenges students to undertake some research,...
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Andy Warhol Museum: Resources and Lessons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of resources for teaching about the life, times, and work of Andy Warhol in an interdisciplinary way. This resource features a lesson index, examples of student work, unit-length plans, suggestions for art activities, and...