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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

California's First Constitution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read excerpts from speeches made at the California Constitutional Convention. They predict what the state constitution say about slavery and other issues concerning race.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Plants of the Tropical Rainforest

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners experiment with the growth of philodendron plants in different amounts of sunlight. They complete a gardening notebook including plant sketches and growth data.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

No Place Like Homelessness

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete a unit of activities that help them understand homelessness, its causes, and ways to better the situation. In this homelessness lesson, students complete five activities that help them to define homelessness and its...
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Worksheet
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Breaking News English: Plastic Replacing Cash in UK

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "Plastic Replacing Cash in UK," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Activity
Live Wire Media

Good Character: Responsibility, Doing the Right Thing, and Respect

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn about the "3 R's of Growing Up:" responsibility, doing the right thing, and respecting yourself. This website lists several ways in which you can fullfil the "3 R's" as well as questions for discussion, writing prompts,...
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: How Aids Activists Used "Die Ins" to Demand Attention to the Growing Epidemic

For Students 9th - 10th
As the AIDS crisis took hold in the 1980s, killing thousands of Americans and ravaging gay communities, the deadly epidemic went unaddressed by U.S. public health agencies -- and unacknowledged by President Ronald Reagan -- for years. In...
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Article
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Kids Health: Everything You Every Wanted to Know About Puberty

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids Health provides an excellent site on puberty. Promotes the idea that the changes taking place in a student's body are normal and part of growing up. Provides answers and responses to many-- even most-- of student questions about...