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American Film Institute: Top Ten Courtroom Dramas

For Students 9th - 10th
Quick reference guide to the American Film Institute's top ten list of the greatest Courtroom Drama movies as picked by the results of a poll taken of leaders from the creative community. Number one is "To Kill a Mockingbird" which was...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Economics of Voting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Since the 1960s, many Americans eligible to vote have not bothered to do so- not even in presidential elections. Low rates of participation in voting have been worrisome to people interested in preserving our democratic traditions....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: M&m's and Blogs: Interpreting Data!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this hands-on, technology-rich lesson plan, middle schoolers will interpret data. The students will define words involving graphs, create a bar graph using M&M's, and post information from their findings on the internet. The...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Do You Need to Know to Vote in Alabama?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Registering to vote, gathering information about the candidates, and casting a vote at the polls are vital parts of the process of selecting elected officials. Students will understand how the registration process works and how to cast...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream !

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Fun and yummy lesson to do on a sunny spring afternoon. Have the students take a poll of their favorite choice of ice cream and create a bar graph showing the information. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Choosing How to Get Paid

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore and compare common payment methods and pay periods that employers use. They apply their learning by voting on their preferred methods in a class poll. Includes teaching guide and student worksheet that can be filled in...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Survey Skills: Assessment

For Teachers 1st Standards
Today we become Gallup Poll central as students take a set of collected data and create a visual representation using the skills that have been taught over the past few lessons.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Representing Our Own Surveys

For Teachers 1st
After developing a survey questions and polling their classmates (in yesterday's lesson), 1st graders will now find a way to represent their findings and write a statement about what they noticed.
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University of Missouri

Famous Trials: Lapd (King Beating) Trials (1992 1993)

For Students 9th - 10th
It seemed like an open-and-shut case. The George Holliday video, played on television so often that an executive at CNN called it "wallpaper," showed three Los Angeles police officers--as their supervisor watched-- kicking, stomping on,...
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Debate Central: Learn About Debating

For Students 9th - 10th
This web site has debate information on how to debate, how to judge, how to coach, how to be a better speaker and how to research.
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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Cast Your Vote

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, test, and evaluate a voting system made with everyday materials. The objective of the instructional activity is to learn how engineering has changed methods of...
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Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: Atlanta Compromise Speech, 1895

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an excerpt from Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech, in which he stresses accommodation rather than resistance as way to deal with racism. Includes a short audio clip - the only surviving recording of Washington's...
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Public Opinion and American Democracy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Illustrate the significance of public opinion during political events by utilizing these reading resources.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Probability and Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page is a math home page that includes information on all topics of probability and statistics.
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Primary
Atomic Archive

Atomicarchive.com: The Manhattan Project

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source documents on the Manhatten project and the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan in 1945. Content includes letters to and from J. Robert Oppenheimer, written deals and agreements, internal memorandums,...
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eBook
Other

Folketinget: The Danish Parliamentary Electorial System

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth look at the electorial system in Denmark.
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Teacher Planet

Teacher Planet: Election Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Teachers, visit this site for a complete resource on elections, voting, issues, presidents, and more. Lessons, activities, worksheets clipart, maps, and other links can all be found here.
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Law School: Constitution of the u.s.

For Students 9th - 10th
The Constitution of the United States is provided by the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University of Law.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: The Petticoat Lobby

For Students 9th - 10th
After women were given the right to vote, the Texas Equal Suffrage League became the Texas League of Women Voters. This page provides a good introduction to the activities of the League, then and now, and also has information on the...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Classroom: Voting Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
This website contains an interactive timeline about the history of voting rights in the United States.
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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Classroom: Federal Taxation

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this interactive timeline documenting the history of federal taxation in the United States.
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Interactive
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Voting Then, Voting Now

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores the voting experiences for African Americans beginning in the Jim Crow era. It shares literacy tests African Americans had to take and other challenges they were given for the right to vote. This denial of the right to...
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: African American Perspectives: Time Line of African American History

For Students 9th - 10th
Timeline of African American History which links to other timelines and a larger Library of Congress site on African American perspectives.
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Website
Other

The Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles

For Students 9th - 10th
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture's site on the controversy surrounding Lord Elgin's removal of the Parthenon sculptures from 1801-1811. The Sculptures are now located in the British Museum.

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