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Curated OER

Castles and Forts of Wales and Oregon

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students compare a castle in Wales to a fort in Oregon and design and build a castle or fort. In this structure study lesson, students complete activities to study castles in Wales to forts in England. Students then design their own fort...
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Curated OER

Mapping the Border

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students create maps of the borderland region. They decorate their maps with colors, pictures, icons, scenes, words that reflect their understanding of the character and history of the borderland.
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Curated OER

Adventures in Music History

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders participate in a variety of experiences to investigate the tie between music and history. It combines music history with historical events and includes information about composers and the music that they composed....
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Curated OER

Flora and Fauna as Figures of Speech

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners view artwork in manuscript pages depicting insects, animals, plants, flowers, and ornate writing, such as those found in the Mira calligraphiae monumenta in the Getty Museum.
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Curated OER

Passages of Man and Word

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore transportation and written communication prior to the Renaissance.
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Curated OER

Art Curators

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use the Internet to select various works of art around a theme. They create a PowerPoint exhibit of these works and create the written documentation to accompany their presentation. They critique the class exhibits.
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Curated OER

Egyptian Inspiration Web

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students conduct Internet research to discover information about scientific, technological, cultural and intellectual achievements in Egypt, along with Egyptian family life. Students create Inspiration webs of their findings.
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Curated OER

What Has Happened Here?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read a passage from Geraldine Brooks's novel Year of Wonders. They generate questions to clarify the meaning of the text and make connections between the text and information learned in their history and science classes.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Days of Our Medieval Lives

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This project is designed for a class on block scheduling with class times ranging from 60-96 minutes. Middle schoolers will be assigned a character in feudal society. Through this character, students will immerse themselves in medieval...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Camelot Times: Writing a Newspaper

For Teachers 6th - 8th
As part of a unit on Arthurian literature and medieval culture, students imagine they are reporters living in the realm of King Arthur and create newsletters/newspapers based on their study and research.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: The Canterbury Tales: Reading Chaucer Across Time

For Students 9th - 10th
Through a focus on digitized images of manuscripts and print editions of Chaucer's work, students will develop their understanding of how his poetry has been produced and read over the centuries.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: The Middle Ages

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson focuses on the importance of record keeping, in journal or diary form, by people in the past. Students learn much about their lives from these documents and they study the Middle Ages as they create journal entries in the...
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Stanford University

Stanford History Education Group: Galileo

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students explore three primary sources and one New York Times article to determine if Galileo was a heretic as accused by the Inquisition. Lesson plans, PowerPoint and primary resources...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Landfills: Building Them Better

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Waste disposal has been an ongoing problem since medieval times. Environmental engineers are employed to develop technologies to dispose of the enormous amount of trash produced in the United States. In this instructional activity, young...
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: The Widening World of Books and Readers [Pdf]

For Teachers 7th Standards
For this lesson, 7th graders examine the widespread impact of the printing press on promoting literacy and spreading ideas across societies and between countries.

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