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Immigration Accounts: Vincenzo Iovine, an Italian Immigrant, and Lino Paul, a Sudanese Immigrant

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers compare immigration experiences in America in historical and modern times. In this immigration lesson, students read and discuss the accounts of an Italian immigrant to the United States in the past and an account from a...
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The Only Thing We Have To Fear...

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the appeal of fear in today's society and beliefs about the paranormal, specifically ghosts. They create a survey to be distributed throughout the school regarding beliefs in ghosts and other supernatural beings and forces.
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Serving Up Reality

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars consider the factors that go into running a restaurant and examine how the restaurant industry impacts the economy of the United States. They create skeleton proposals for new restaurants and consider the costs of this...
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It's Your Move

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study about the creation of a German village in South Korea for returning emigrants. They examine other cases of migration and relocation from modern world history.
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Once Upon a Word

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore the derivations and usage of common slang terms. Through internet research and discussion, students consider the Latin and Greek roots of contemporary slang terms. Groups complete an etymology chart documenting...
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Putting the 'pi' in Pumpkin Pie

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students use geometric formulas to divide a pumpkin pie. In this geometric formulas lesson plan, students review equations for area and circumference of a circle and divide a pumpkin pie to practice the formulas. Students use the...
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Newspapers: A Connection to Our Past

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the historical context for a currents event. They create an iMovie that explains why it is important to explain the history behind a current event.
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Who Am I? - Brainstorming

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students brainstorm lists of places, events and relationships that define them. They search for clip art and pictures in magazines to illustrate the items on their list and create a graphic timeline of their lives.
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Women Call Out: The Personal Narrative

For Teachers 9th - 12th
After reading and discussing several personal narratives written by women in the 1920's, class members write a personal narrative of their own about a time in their lives they felt controlled. Sample narratives can be accessed through...
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Persuade Me, Please! Reading a Persuasive Essay and Liking It!

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Persuade your writers that crafting arguments is not that difficult. They only need to follow the steps outlined in this resource.
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Ladies, Contraband, and Spies: Women in the Civil War

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students use primary sources - diaries, letters, and photographs - to explore the experiences of women in the Civil War. By looking at a series of document galleries, the perspectives of slave women, plantation mistresses, female spies,...
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When Work is Done

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders create an album based on a thesis statement about life in the 20th century after completing the introductory lesson for a lesson on the web site "When Work is Done".
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In My Other Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore various cultural identities. They conduct Internet research, develop a questionnaire that profiles information from their selected culture, and write a letter to a pen pal in the U.S. explaining what life in their...
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Classic Columns

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders present a PowerPoint presentation on Greek columns. They realize that Greek culture is centered around religion. Students create a model of one of the columns. Also they find examples of Greek architecture in major Greek...
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Experiencing Nature

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students create their own landscapes based on the topography of their region after studying the artwork of Cincinnati-based artist William Sonntag and other "Hudson River School" artists.
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PALM TREES Technology :Literacy Challenge Project

For Teachers 7th
Do you have a class set PDAs? Seventh graders use the Note Pad function on their PDAs to brainstorm writing prompts. After three minutes of listing their favorite foods, class members use the Note Pad Eraser to reduce their list to the...
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Math Memories

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars discuss their math experiences from the past. In this math instructional activity, students write to describe their experiences in math. Additionally, young scholars list math skills that they have.
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Analyzing Literature via Literature Circles

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Introduce literature circles with Roland Smith's novels. Your seventh graders will see the activity modeled as you read The Three Little Pigs together and apply the format to a Roland Smith novel of their choice. The lesson includes...
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CCSS Unit Design Template for Art

For Teachers K - 12th
Art classes, like any lab class, require extensive preplanning and set-up time. Use this planning template in the quiet before the storm to identify the equipment and materials that will be needed, the procedures and processes...
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Mandela The Man

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore civil rights by reading several biographies. In this Nelson Mandela lesson, 9th graders discuss the trials and tribulations Nelson Mandela had to face in South Africa and how they were similar to the problems Martin...
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Somewhere Under the Rainbow--The Romantic Period in British Literature

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars create 2-3 poems, a children's story, or a two or three dimensional piece of art.  In this Romantic Period lesson, students discuss the historical background of the Romantic Period and relevant literary terms.  Young...
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I am a Hero for Animals!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the humane treatment of animals. In this character development and civic responsibility instructional activity, students define "hero" and brainstorm related attributes. Students complete an action plan using the...
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Honoring Property Rights

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine the issue of cheating. In this property rights lesson, students define honor and discuss intellectual property rights as they explore a case study.
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Writing to Photography/Photography to Writing

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students improve their' writing by incorporating photography into descriptive and narrative writing exercises. They write descriptions of various professional photographic collections. Later they use their own and other classmates'.

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