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Indian/Native American Boarding Schools: Their History, Harm and Impact

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Encultureate, assimilate, or eliminate? The 2021 discovery of a mass grave of over 200 children on the site of a former Canadian Indian Boarding school led to the creation of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative. High schoolers...
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The Air Out There

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students build windmills and weather vanes. In this instructional activity on air, students build wind vanes and windmills to demonstrate that air moves. Students determine the direction of air movement and measure the speed at which it...
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Solar Race Cars

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the relationship between time traveled, distance and speed.  In this solar race car activity students wire solar batteries using series and parallel circuitry. 
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Electrical Safety Situations

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students determine appropriate responses to electrical emergency situations such as a downed power line. They examine an image of a fallen power line before discussing reasons that a line might be down and how to handle the situation....
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"The Rajah's Rice: A Mathematical Folktale from India" adapted by David Barry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use large numbers and learn exponential representation and explain patterns and relations of powers of 2.
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Understanding Daoism through study of the Daodejing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work in groups and study Daodejing. They describe how Monkey's behavior (from the Monkey Stories) is governed by the Yang and the Yin powers.
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The Saturday Night Massacre

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students look at the actions taken by Nixon from several perspectives. They explain the Constitutional issues involved with the firings and the concept of Presidential privilege as it evolved during this period. Students draw conclusions...
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Blade Design Challenge

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners identify the differences between non-renewable and renewable energy sources. They construct a PVC wind turbine and design a set of blades to extract as much energy as possible from low and high wind conditions.
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The Constitution: Our Plan for Government

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students investigate the importance of separation of powers, checks, balances, and judicial review. They also investigate how national and state governments are linked.
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The Life and Times of the West River 1776-1896: A Study of Early Industry in Westville

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the role of the West River in Connecticut in providing water power to local industries. In groups, they determine and discuss what needs to be considered before building along a river. They also research the other...
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Escape From Slavery

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students make a timeline of Frederick Douglass' life. They role play your favorite scene from the story. Students write at least 5 journal entries from Frederick Douglass' point of view.
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Rocket Pinwheel

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students observe a balloon-powered pinwheel to study the principles of rocketry. They study Newton's Third Law of Motion.
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PreCalculus Worksheet 8.4

For Students 11th - 12th
In this precalculus worksheet, students write numbers in their trigonometric form and compute the numbers to a given power. Students explore the parametric function and trace the roots of unity. After completing eight short answer...
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What if the Senate were Reformed on the Triple E Model

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate what the Canadian Senate does and what reform would do to the power relationship between the Prime Minister and the Senate.
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US Government: Supreme Court

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore the powers of the Supreme Court. In this Judicial Branch lesson, students define vocabulary regarding the branch's responsibilities, take notes on a video regarding the branch, and discuss the powers of the branch in a...
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Inventions over Time

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine inventions, such as spear points and bows and arrows, and discuss their importance in human cultural development. They compare these early inventions with modern ones and determine the impact of science and...
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A New View

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners illustrate and write a story. In groups, students brainstorm lists of animals and objects. They create a storyboard from the point of view of a chosen animal or object. After learners discuss life from different perspectives,...
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Just One Verse Line

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore the power that a single word or line can have by focusing on specific imagery in the poem "Those Winter Sundays," by Robert Hayden.
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Writing About Race

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore racial discrimination focusing on Jim Crow laws. They read an excerpt from Richard Wright's autobiography and discuss how viewing the subject from the his point of view affects their opinions.
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Response to Literature:

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students write about how the book makes them feel, or they can write about what they think the characters are feeling. They share their personal reactions to this very powerful chapter.
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Ghosts of Rwanda Pre-Viewing Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch a film about the history of Rwanda and discuss the meaning of genocide. They study the basic principles of the United Nations and examine how point of view effects the reporting of history.
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Where's Up?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders brainstorm answers to the question why compasses point north. In groups, they use introduce the needle to the different ends of the magnet. They place the needles in a styroform disk and record their results in their...
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Fables With Dolch Sight Words

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read classic fables, consider their meaning and then re-write them using a prompt if necessary. This lesson plan presents many classic fables that students can read, and re-write, using their powers of imagination.
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A Personal Reflection on the Canadian Parliamentary System and Its Delivery to Secondary Students

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars develop a newspaper portfolio of "Canadian Democracy At Work" and find examples of events/decisions/people from media sources to reinforce the concepts of Power and Authority in the Canadian context.

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