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Baltimore as a Port of Entry
Fourth graders explore the Port of Baltimore. In this European immigration to America instructional activity, 4th graders investigate the port as port of entry between 1830 and 1850. Students examine primary documents from selected Web...
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Port Portrait
Students research and identify exciting places to visit and plan an imaginary cruise, using maps, to study other languages, climates and geography and draw scenes from your trip. They make a portrait of your group waiting to leave one...
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Ports of Immigration: Angel Island and Ellis Island
Young historians travel back to the past to explore immigration in the United States. Scholars match images of immigrants to Angel and Ellis Island. The activity also includes a worksheet and a short group discussion to understand...
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Home Spelling Practice: Latin Roots: act, port, dict, ject
In this spelling worksheet, learners learn to spell a list of 20 words. All contain a Latin root: act, port, dict, or ject. Students write each word one time. There are additional at-home activities listed. The meaning of these Latin...
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Zeal for Teaching: Reconstruction in Port Royal, South Carolina
Students discuss the story of Port Royal, South Carolina and the enthusiasm about the notion that African Americans be educated. They search a Reconstruction archive to find documents supporting the importance of education for freed slaves.
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Cleveland debates: Port or Park?
Students perform research on the Web and in books or newspapers the planning going on recently in Cleveland. They read the longshoremen's objections. Students choose sides and prepare your arguments, using visual aids and facts and figures.
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Port of Entry
Students research patterns of immigration throughout American history. The focus is on the process of how immigrants came through Ellis Island. Students reflect upon the topic to develop critical thinking skills.
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Ports in a Storm: A Surge of Solutions
Pupils examine various environmental health issues related to ports and the
shipping industry. As a class, they generate a systems model related to the ship-
salvaging industry. Then in small groups, they create their own systems model...
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Ports in the Storm
Students explore national security issues related to the possibility of a Dubai-owned company operating an American port. Opinions are solicited and debated.
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How to Create a Virtual Mediterranean Cruise
Young scholars determine the ports they visit and develop a plan to study each region’s history and culture.
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The American Whaling Industry
When thinking about the American whaling industry most imagine Moby Dick and Nantucket sleigh rides, harpoons and scrimshaw, whale-oil lamps and baleen in women's corsets. But it may come as a surprise that the industry was also...
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Sentence Completion 4
Some of these vocabulary words will prove tough for even your juniors and seniors! There are eight questions here, and your scholar must identify the correct answer out of five available multiple choice answers. Help them realize that...
Global Oneness Project
Highways and Change
What is the cost of change? Roberto Guerra's photo essay "La Carretera: Life and Change Along Peru's Interoceanic Highway" asks viewers to consider the impacts of the 1,600 mile-long highway through Peru and Brazil that connects Pacific...
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Port Talbot
In this ESL worksheet, students read an excerpt about Anthony Hopkins, the actor. They complete a crossword puzzle by responding to the 12 statements related to the excerpt. Then, students respond to seven questions also related to the...
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Word With the Latin Root "port"
In this language arts worksheet, students examine a colorful poster which shows about 100 words which share the Latin root "port" (to carry). Words are color coded by meanings and word "families." There are no questions on the page but...
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Tens! Hundreds! Thousands!!! of Tons
Fifth graders take a close look at the types of ships that travel through the Hudson River Valley on the Hudson River. They utilize worksheets embedded in the plan in order to answer questions about exactly what is being shipped, and how...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Tidal Waves
Periodically ship the class a trigonometric application. Pupils model the level of water in a port. Using their models, learners determine the times that a ship can safely navigate into and out of the port, along with determining other...
Humanities Texas
Primary Source Worksheet: Thomas Jefferson, Message to Congress on the Embargo
Zounds! Image an American president closing all ports and prohibiting exports. As part of an exercise designed to strengthen primary source comprehension skills, readers examine Thomas Jefferson's 1808 message to Congress urging such an...
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Big Boats Up The River
Using boats along in the Port of Albany as the focus, learners practice adding single-digit numbers and interpreting data. This lesson comes with the worksheets, resource links, and other materials to make it a worthwhile experience.
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Titanic
As the class moves through the 'Titanic', they are exposed to the various nautical terms: port, bow, stern, starboard, crow's nest. They practice locomotor skills such as: skip, hop, leap, jump, slide, and crab walk, when the nautical...
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Sea Liverpool
Students explore Liverpool England's maritime history and development as an important port from its early days to the present. Through hands-on activities and community based instruction, they simulate sailing experiences and life aboard...
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Simulation of Laparoscopic Surgery Lab
Students, having learned how to manipulate the instruments, insert the instruments into the "ports" of the plastic membrane, trying to clip, cut, staple the sponge organ according to the function of the instrument.
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Pacific Northwest History - Natural Resources, Ports and Railroads
Students explain the importance of extractive resources on the development of the Pacific Northwest. They explain how the timber industry, fishing, mining and agriculture industries shaped the growth of the Pacific Northwest.
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Social Studies: Maryland and Its Culture
Students discuss the history and culture of Baltimore, Maryland. they discover the importance of the city's port along with the state bird and song. Background sources include "The Prairie Dog That Met the President" and "Journey of...
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