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ProCon

Net Neutrality

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Should net neutrality be restored? Scholars prepare for a class debate on the topic using the included website. After reading a brief introduction to the issue, they review the main pros and cons in an attempt to arrive at an informed...
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Lesson Plan
Education World

Now Let Me Fly -- A Black History Reader's Theater Script

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Young scholars study African American history, Jim Crow laws, and seperate but equal statutes by performing a Reader's Theater script. They perform Marcia Cebulska's, Now Let Me Fly, which may be requested online.
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Curated OER

A Bus Ride to Remember: Reading Comprehension

For Students 6th - 7th
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students read 4 separate selections and respond to questions regarding each selection.
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Curated OER

On the Other Side of the Color Barrier: Segregation and the Negro Leagues

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study segregation that occurred in the past and that is currently occurring. In this equal rights lesson, students use primary source documents to student segregation of the past. In a culminating activity, students find or draw...
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Curated OER

Basic Equivalencies

For Teachers 1st
First graders manipulate coins to show equivalencies between pennies and dimes. Given specific values, 1st graders model the specified amounts by using pennies and dimes. Through use of a computer assisted trading coins, students...
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Curated OER

The Battleground: Separate and Unequal Education

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Students investigate the history of unequal education in the United States and the impact on African American history. In this unequal history lesson, students discuss the purpose of education and describe an ideal school. Students...
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Fuel the Brain

Subtraction (Separation)

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Have your young mathematicians practice subtraction with these three story problems. Have your students explain their answer with words, pictures, or numbers.
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Curated OER

Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students analyze photographs that feature segregation. In this human rights lesson, students examine photographs of a segregated movie theater, a Ku Klux Klan gathering, a segregated business sign, and an illustration from "Harper's...
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Curated OER

Model Repeated Groups

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this repeated groups activity, students use equal-shares drawing to solve a word problem, analyze and explain the process, make equal share drawings for 30 marbles and "explore it."
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Curated OER

Greater or Less?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this using symbols to compare numbers learning exercise, students solve 9word problems as they compare 2 answers in each problem to determine whether they are greater than, less than, or equal to one another
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Curated OER

The Effects of Segregation And "jim Crow" on Life in Virginia

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study the effects that segregation and the Jim Crow laws had on life in Virginia after reviewing the Reconstruction period. They list the effects that the Jim Crow laws had on the lives of African Americans such as unfair...
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Curated OER

Figuring Out Equations With Figurines

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars inspect solving equations with one variable. Through the use of a scale balance, they examine the importance of equality in an equation. By playing a balance game with figurines and a scale, students discover methods of...
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Curated OER

Compare Fractions Using Fraction Circles

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice ordering fractions using models and drawings.  In this math model lesson, 4th graders utilize colored blocks and drawings to show an equal representation of given fractions.  Students compare and...
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Curated OER

Civil Rights Movement Cut-and-Paste Timeline

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Learners put into order the sequence of events that brought about voting rights and equal rights for African Americans. The creative project can be made very crafty by having students cut out the timeline to be combined with others in a...
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Curated OER

Chromatography

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study about chromatography, a process used to separate mixtures.
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Curated OER

Intermediate Synonyms and Antonyms #2

For Students 5th - 6th
In this synonyms and antonyms learning exercise, students review the definitions for synonyms and antonyms and then complete 2 separate activities selecting synonyms and antonyms for the 12 word choices.
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Curated OER

Civil Rights and Americans with Disabilities

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students apply the principles of American democracy to people with disabilities. They analyze how individuals and groups in American society have struggled to achieve the liberties and equality promised in the principles of American...
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Curated OER

The Political Compass: Four Flavours to Choose From

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students learn about the issues that separate political parties.  In this politics lesson, students look at economics and social issues from different perspectives and use the Nolan Chart to organize their information.
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Curated OER

Similarity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of similarity. This takes higher order thinking skills and being able to separate into categories. Specifically in this lesson they are introduced to the scale and how it is...
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Helping with Math

Subtraction Worksheet: Numbers to 9 (1 of 3)

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Single-digit subtractions skills are super important in the early grades. The linked resource is the first of three such pages accessible through this website. By checking a box at the top of the page, answers can be revealed. Consider...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Roll Out Fractions Game: Comparing Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Reinforce the concept of comparing fractions with a hands-on, two-player game that calls for a visual model, score board, and dice. Players roll dice to acquire their given fraction, create the fraction using fraction tiles, then...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Absolute Value Equations

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this absolute value equations worksheet, students solve ten absolute value equations. They first set the quantity inside the absolute value sign equal to the positive and negative value on the other side of the equal sign. Students...
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Curated OER

Zora Neale Hurston:Fighting Jim Crow through the All-Black Community

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explain the importance of equality of opportunity and equal protection of the law as a characteristic of American society and evaluate the validity and credibility of different historical interpretations.
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Curated OER

Simple Machines - Fruit Wedge

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the principles and uses of inclined planes, screws, and wedges while they determine examples of simple machines that are use in everyday life. They separate different kinds of fruit into pieces to determine the...

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