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Lesson Plan
Critical Thinking Cooperative

Doing Our Share

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Whether at home or in the classroom, each member of a community has certain responsibilities they must tend to. With the help of the children's story Piggybook by Anthony Browne, kids learn how to assign jobs in a fair and safe...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Household Chores

For Students 5th - 7th
In this chores at home worksheet, students read a passage, answer five true or false statements and write a conversation between Tanya and her mother.
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Lesson Plan
Read4Health

Piggybook: A Read4Health Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
"You are pigs." With those three simple words, the lives of the Piggott family were changed forever. Read aloud the children's story Piggybook by Anthony Browne and teach your class the importance of personal responsibility,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Family Responsibilities

For Teachers 1st
First graders brainstorm household chores and which member of their family would best perform each job. They sing a task song and create a job chart for their households.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Division of Labor Worksheet

For Students 6th - 9th
In this worlds of work and play worksheet, students think about the division of labor in their own household and consider how responsibilities break down along gender and age line as they complete the provided graphic organizer.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Helping Hands

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars discuss the needs of senior citizens. They assist them with basic household chores. They gain pride in helping others and reflect in their journals.
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Handout
ProCon

Is Homework Beneficial?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Does homework improve student achievement, or does it increase stress? Scholars use the included debate topics website to prepare for a class discussion or debate about whether homework is advantageous. After reading a brief background...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Strategies for Success

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars share opinions about common bad habits, read about behavior economics by reading and discussing article "Your Plate Is Bigger Than Your Stomach," identify goals and strategies designed to improve negative behaviors, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Football at Carlisle Indian School: A Tool for Assimilation?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers become familiar with procedures for helping Indians assimilate in the 1800's. In this history lesson plan  students explore how football helped Indians to assimilate in a positive way. Middle schoolers recognize the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Integrating Character Education into Lesson Plans

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students select a favorite lesson and list character traits from that lesson to serve as indicators on various questions under review. Character traits included are honesty, compassion, strong work ethnic and respect for the environment.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Determining the Existence of Gender Bias in Daily Tasks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Help your kids explore gender bias. Learners design and conduct a survey examining role responsibilities within families. They determine the percentage of responsibilities for males vs. females and graph the results. Then they analyze...
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Lesson Plan
Peace Corps

Family

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Family traditions are the focus of a lesson that explores the lives of children in India and those in your classroom. Scholars examine their own family roles and traditions, then respond to an informative text detailing a young...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Everyday life in Spain

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students consider what life is like for Spanish young people. In this global studies lesson, students read and discuss excerpts from Children of the World: Spain. Students submit journal entries about everyday life in Spain.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sitti's Secrets

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students identify geography by analyzing a story in class. In this global culture lesson, students read the book Sitti's Secrets which is based upon a story set in the Middle East. Students compare the cultural characteristics mentioned...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Defining Our Community

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders, in groups, work on a service-learning project by defining their own community and the problems within it.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Colonial Life

For Students 4th - 5th
In this colonial life worksheet, students read a 1 page article on colonial life, make a Venn diagram that shows how life for colonial children was different from and similar to theirs and discuss what part of colonial life they liked...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Building Bridges for Young Learners

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students compare and contrast families around the world emphasizing the country of India. In this families lesson plan, students share and learn about roles in families, how we share characteristics, and how families in India are similar...
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Website
US National Archives

Pioneering Journals of the Ingalls Family: Pepin, Wisconsin: Household Chores

For Students 9th - 10th
Based on journals for Laura Ingalls Wilder's family, these descriptions of housework in a pioneer home are typical of the life of most pioneers on the prairie or in the northern woods. These chores would have been "women's work."
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Neeraj

For Students 9th - 10th
Neeraj, a young girl in rural India who performs her household chores during the day and goes to school at night, is profiled in this video segment from Wide Angle.
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: 6 Inventions That Transformed Housework

For Students 9th - 10th
Electric appliances large and small promised reduced drudgery. Most people take washers and refrigerators for granted today, a century ago, these machines revolutionized people's daily lives. The introduction of running water and...

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