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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Chernobyl 2 - Air Currents

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars create a scale model of the affected area of the Chernobyl disaster. Using this scale model, they simulate the explosion and the resulting uneven dispersal of fallout due particularly to wind direction and weather conditions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

It's All About Justice

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine a specific environmental concern to their local community. In groups, they explore how the justice system would deal with the problem by participating in a treasure hunt. They review the meaning of federal and state...
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Lesson Plan
National First Ladies' Library

World Starvation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concept of world starvation and some of the organizations that are founded in order to help solve the problem. They conduct research using a variety of resources. The information is used in order to conduct class...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Mechanics Help Using the Comma with Formal Letters

For Students 6th - 10th
For this worksheet, students analyze different parts of a letter and insert the appropriate punctuation including a comma, period, colon, question mark and semicolon.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Vivid Words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this descriptive words worksheet, students read the vivid words and their definitions in the word box. Students then write a word from the word box that correctly completes each sentence.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Vocabulary Quiz: Grade Three

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match vocabulary words to the left with definitions to the right, 15 total. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mechanical, Electrical and Radiant Energy

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students write a hypothesis and complete a lab.  In this investigative lesson students complete their lab and a worksheet about energy. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Vocabulary of Space

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students build their knowledge and understanding of vocabulary related to space.  In this space lesson, students discuss four categories of words and phrases related to space. 
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Lesson Plan
US National Archives

Docs Teach: Separation of Powers or Shared Powers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will analyze documents that illustrate the relationship between the legislative, executive and judicial branches. Using the scale in Weighing the Evidence, students will decide whether the United States...
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Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Separation of Powers

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative discussion of the ideas behind the Constitutional principle of Separation of Powers.
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Activity
University of Missouri

Exploring Constitutional Conflicts: Separation of Powers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
When do the actions of one branch of the federal government unconstitutionally intrude upon the powers of another branch? This article surveys the history of this question in historic Supreme Court cases.
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Primary
University of Chicago

The Founders' Constitution: Separation of Powers

For Students 9th - 10th
Federal Convention on the Separation of Powers as recorded during debate at the convention, June 2, 1787.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Separation of Powers

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses what separation of powers is, what it looked like in the past, and how it is interpreted in countries around the world and in the United States.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Separation and Power, Making of African American Identity: V. 3

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay that examines the relationship between racial separation and power. In this essay Stokely Carmichael advocates for the coalescence of political and economic power within the black community in a way that liberates and insulates...
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Lesson Plan
iCivics

I Civics: Separation of Powers: What's for Lunch?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students find out how the three branches of government interact with each other and how decisions about laws are made by several parts of the U.S. government.
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Lesson Plan
American Bar Association

American Bar Assoc.: Separation of Powers, Connecting the Separate Powers [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This lesson involves role-playing to help the students understand the separation of powers. [PDF]
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Is Power Divided in the United States Government?

For Students 4th - 8th
Video accompanied by questions for students that looks at how the concept of separation of powers embedded in the Constitution is applied in the United States government. [3:50]
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Unit Plan
C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: u.s. History Module: Did Founders Want Government to Work? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive learning module on the system of government established by the founders that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and primary source materials, followed by a summative performance task....
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Online Course
Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Constitutional Underpinnings of u.s. Government

For Students 9th - 10th
The first unit of an online course on AP US Government and Politics. It explores key concepts of American government, including constitutional government, republicanism, separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism, construction...
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Lesson Plan
US National Archives

National Archives: Teaching Six Big Ideas in the Constitution

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Constitution can be broken down into 6 main themes: Limited Government, Federalism, Republicanism, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, and Popular Sovereignty. Students will study background on the Founding Fathers and use...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Constitution

For Teachers 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an in depth Activote questionnaire relating to our Constitution. Students should understand the basic concepts of the Constitution, checks and balances, separation of powers, and...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Powers of Government

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students learn how the three branches of the United States government work together and the powers that the Constitution assigns to each branch-legislative, executive, and judicial.
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Lesson Plan
iCivics

I Civics: State Power: Got a Reservation?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discover that states have their own governments and powers separate from the federal government. They learn what those powers are, how they're different from the federal government's powers, and that state governments also give...
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Activity
Thomson Reuters

Find Law: Article Ii: Presidential Power to Use Troops

For Students 9th - 10th
In-depth analysis of the use of presidential power to send troops abroad without consent of Congress.

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