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Latin Storytelling: Aeneas Flees from Troy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice Latin language skills by reciting information from the tale of Aeneas' flight from Troy. They respond in Latin to prompts and questions posed in Latin by the teacher. They demonstrate they know who the main characters...
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Greek Myths

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Ever wonder why the ancient Greeks had myths? The explanation you'll find here, describes myths as stories that explain things people didn't understand. They also tell the stories of the gods people in ancient times believed in. These...
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Back to the Farm

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Read up on farming and ranching and connect this information to your learners' lives. After reading, send class members home to fill out a family tree and trace their family history, focusing on farming and ranching backgrounds. Once...
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Discovering Your Heritage

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students interview a family member about their heritage. They listen to and record part of their family's oral history. Students also create and label a family tree going back a minimum of two generations and compare and contrast...
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Quadrilaterals

For Students 10th
In this quadrilaterals worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 34 various types of problems. First, they fill-in the family tree with the names of the shapes of quadrilaterals shown. Then, students list the quadrilaterals that have...
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Thanksgiving Handprint Tree

For Teachers K - 6th
Students work cooperatively to create a classroom thanksgiving tree in this November art lesson for the elementary classsroom. Included with the lesson is a short resource list of books that contain more Thanksgiving craft ideas.
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The Fairy Tree

For Students 5th Standards
Read about the ways a beloved pet can help a girl meet her true love with a short fairy tale. As fifth graders read the passage, they note their inferences and answer four comprehension questions to demonstrate their understanding.
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Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1 (English II Reading)

For Students 10th Standards
What do a colt and a boy in a tree have in common? More than might be first apparent. The fourth interactive in a series of ten introduces readers to intertextuality, the process of using abstract thinking to consider how one text...
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Dendrology

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students work as a class-size unit as well as in small groups to become proficient in observing tree characteristics to facilitate species identification. They identify most common tree species by observing leaf, flower, fruit and bark...
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Giving Cheer

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Pupils explore kind behavior. In this values development and literacy instructional activity, students listen to The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, then generate a class list of ways the tree helped the boy and ways in which the boy...
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Discovering Your Community

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students focus on the origins of the families that make up their community by exploring their family's origins through themselves, parents, and grandparents. Students create a map marked with family origins for the class.
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Studying Species By Examining the Evolution of the Canidae Family

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students read an article on the characteristics of wolves and dogs then complete a phylogenetic tree of the canid family. They then write an essay justifying why or why not wolves and dogs should be classified as different species.
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WHAT IS A JAPANESE FAMILY CREST?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students become familiar with family crests in general and Japanese family crests in particular. Students become familiar with the history of Japanese family crests.
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Traveling With Limited Funds; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a pre-reading activity which helps them see what it would be like to live in poverty. For this reading comprehension lesson, students make a list of items they take on a trip considering they have very...
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Plant Science Discussion in the Classroom

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the lesson by showing them leaves from common deciduous trees, such as oak, tulip, hickory, and maple. They describe the different parts of a leaf. Students are asked the following questions: How are the...
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Where on Earth Are You From?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create family trees and discuss cultural differences.  In this cultural diversity activity, students discuss the places their families came from and develop questions for each other.Students show their families path of...
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The Brand New Kid

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore cultural differences through reading. In this culture lesson, 2nd graders read the book The Brand New Kid by Katie Couric. Students discuss scenes from the book and how the character feels. Student get with a...
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Peace Education | Wreath or Tree Craft

For Teachers K - 5th
What is peace and what does it mean to our society? To understand why peace is celebrated and what character traits or concepts relate to the action of peace, learners engage in a discussion, story time, and a craft project. The lesson...
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Indian Land Tenure Foundation

Relationship with Nature

For Teachers K - 2nd
After a class discussion that focuses on kinship and extended family, young learners explore how Native Americans have lived in clans and other forms of extended family divisions. Pupils also see how Native Americans relate to the...
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Join the Parade Worksheet 1 - Level 5

For Students 5th
In this English worksheet, 5th graders read a family tree and answer questions based on the tree. Students become familiar with the terms cousin, sister, mother, grandfather and grandmother.
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Speaking for the Trees

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students present a play based on The Lorax.In this environmental issues lesson, students read and discuss literature and complete activities pertaining to environmental stewardship.
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Grandparents Day: Make a Grand Connection!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Help your class celebrate National Grandparents Day by engaging in these special family activities!
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Families

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students practice using family vocabulary. They compare their own culture to others in the world. They also create their own family tree and share it with the class.
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Civil War Trust

Genealogy

For Teachers 6th - 9th
The Civil War is undoubtedly a part of America's history, but could it be part of your pupils' history as well? Middle schoolers conduct research to discover a connection between their ancestors and the American Civil War. Whether...

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