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Liverpool

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students listen to a podcast about Liverpool. They listen for words with similar meanings to 7 phrases given in the first activity. Students answer 7 comprehension questions and complete a cloze activity.
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Credit to the Nation: Human Rights Cards

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the lives of refugees. In this human rights activity, students use the provided refugee cards to play games that require them to learn details about the lives of the refugees. 
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Victorian Homes Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners investigate British Society in the 19th century by examining Victorian style homes. In this world history lesson plan, students observe photographs of both rich and poor Victorian homes and discuss the main differences between...
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And It's All for Charity

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students fight poverty. In this current events lesson, students research the listed Web sites to find out how Red Nose Day was established by Comic Relief to raise funds to fight world poverty.
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Are We There Yet?

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students make their way to British museums. In this field trip opportunities lesson, students visit the The Deep, the Science of Sport, the Castle Munster, or High Beeches online on in person to experience hands-on science instruction.
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Curated OER

The Expansion of The United States, 1846-1848

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars interpret historical maps,identify territories acquired by the United States in the 1840s. Also they identify states later formed from these territories. The primary sources for the lesson are the maps found in the...
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Curated OER

Facts About Australia: Fill-In-The-Blank

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this geography worksheet on Australia, learners fill in blanks in a paragraph about Australia with words from a word bank; the paragraph contains basic facts about geography, settlement, etc.
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Curated OER

Street Language

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners consider the impact of language. In this literacy lesson plan, students read an article about literary classics being rewritten in "youth speak" (the article is not included). Learners read and discuss the article.
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Curated OER

Read loud: The Media

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this media read aloud activity, students read a dialogue aloud in pairs.  Student A will ask a question about the media, and Student B gives the answer.
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British Library

British Library: Dickens's Great Expectations: Social Mobility

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will explore this theme of social mobility through a reading of extracts from Samuel Smiles's Self-Help (1859), the handbook that many young men in 19th-century Britain turned to in seeking advice as to how to better...
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National Archives (UK)

The National Archives: 19th Century Prison Ships

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine the primary sources provided by Great Britain's National Archives to discover the state of the prison system in late 18th century Great Britain, and the conditions on the prison ships used because of the prison system. Read court...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: The Great Debate: Internationalists vs. Isolationists

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This great lesson plan from EDSITEment uses primary sources, an interactive timeline, and guiding questions to examine the debate in the United States over the merits of isolationism vs. internationalism after the passage of the...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Boycotting Baubles of Britain

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A great lesson plan that examines the role consumer boycotts of British goods in colonial America had in the run-up to the Revolutionary War. Find learning objectives, instructional activity activities, and assessment options.
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Digital History

Digital History: Isolationists, Internationalists and Lend Lease [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Read about the German incursion into France and the Low Countries and the bombing of Great Britain which caused much discussion in the United States. Should the US stay out of affairs in Europe, or intervene to help their long-time ally,...
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National Archives (UK)

What Happened in the Fire of London?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A great lesson plan on the use of primary documents focusing on the "Great Fire" in London, England which occurred in 1666. There are actual copies of such documents as maps, lists of people living on the street where the fire started...
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iCivics

I Civics: Got Grievances?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn what economic, political, and social factors led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. In this lesson plan, learners learn what caused the colonies to declare independence from Great Britain...
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Ohio State University

Osu History Teaching Institute: The Industrial Revolution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explores the development of the textile industry in Great Britain, focusing on the invention of various machines. Also,discusses the social effects of the Industrial Revolution and the connections between the Industrial Revolution and...
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Connecticut: A Case Study in Anti Imperialism

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lesson plan for 7th and 8th grade. Gives notes on imperialism, mercantilism and how Great Britain used the colonies as a source for raw materials.
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University of California

The History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The campaign for woman suffrage in the U.S. began with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Sixty years later, however, women could vote in only four states: Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. In 1910 the state of Washington voted nearly...
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Library of Virginia

Virginia Memory: James I

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What connection did King James I have with Virginia? In 1606, James authorized the Virginia Company of London to found the Jamestown colony. The English successfully settled in Virginia, planting the foundation of Great Britain's...
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US National Archives

Docsteach: The Titanic Disaster: One Survivor's Story

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this activity, middle schoolers will follow the story of one Titanic survivor, Lucy Ridsdale. A fifty year old nurse from Great Britain, Lucy would survive the Titanic disaster aboard lifeboat 13.
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Colonial Williamsburg: Colonial Reaction to Stamp Act

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan encourages students to analyze primary documents to understand the colonial reaction to Great Britain's tax legislation, specifically the Stamp Act of 1765.
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PBS

Pbs: Queen Victoria's Empire (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Four lesson plans for exploring the reign of Queen Victoria, with instructions for introducing learners to the positive and negative impacts of the inventions of the Industrial Revolution, to the leaders of Victorian England, to the role...
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Stanford University

Stanford History Education Group: Appeasement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Leaders European democracies, like Britain, utilized the appeasement policy during the years during Hitler's dictatorship prior to World War II. The decision to use the policy are greatly debated still....

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