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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Note Names on the Staff

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson plan teaching students the notes on the treble staff. Students learn slogans and practice using a flipchart from Promethean Planet.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Herblock's Presidents

For Students 9th - 10th
Historically significant collection of political cartoons featuring U.S. Presidents from Library of Congress online teacher-student resources.
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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: John Quincy Adams: Campaigns and Elections

For Students 9th - 10th
Modern presidential campaigns pale in comparison with the campaigns of 1824 and 1828. Read about the election battles between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.
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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: James Knox Polk:campaign and Election of 1844

For Students 9th - 10th
The campaign and election of 1844 showed the rising difference in the nation between Whigs and Democrats and sections of the country. Showing the true development of the two-party system, it also gave rise to the term, "dark horse."
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Preparing for Proofs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity introduces students to the terms of hypothesis, conclusion, conditional, converse, inverse, contrapositive, and biconditional using popular advertising slogans. A learning check activity is used to check their understanding...
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Handout
Bill of Rights Institute

Bill of Rights Institute: James Otis

For Students 9th - 10th
James Otis was called the most important American of the 1760s by John Adams. A trained lawyer and master of argument, James Otis was a leader of the Patriot movement in Boston in those years. Initially a prosecutor for the British...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Be an Ad Detective

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Every day, students are bombarded by advertising. They cannot escape it. But marketers realize that many ypung people are becoming very good at tuning ads out. Businesses thus are becoming more creative in their communication with...
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Other

The Iranian: 1979 Revolution, Photos, Articles, Songs

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains primary source material concerning the Iranian Revolution (photos, quotes, political cartoons, audio clips, Khomeini's declarations, revolutionary slogans, etc.).
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: 54 40 or Fight

For Students 5th - 8th
See how James Polk's plan to claim the Oregon Territory, which had been shared with Great Britain since 1818, led him to victory with the slogan, Fifty-four forty or fight. Read about the settlers who traveled the Oregon Trail and why...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Credit Cards Are "Interest"ing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will create a credit card, focusing on appealing terms and slogan. They will use their credit card to go on a shopping spree. The students will receive a "BILL" to discover/discuss the effects/application of simple interest....
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: How the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike Expanded the Civil Rights Struggle

For Students 9th - 10th
With the slogan, "I am a man," workers in Memphis sought financial justice in a strike that fatefully became Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final cause. On February 12, 1968, 1,300 Black sanitation workers in Memphis began a strike to demand...
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Other

Official Site of Nevada Commission on Tourism: Symbols

For Students 9th - 10th
Click on each of the links at this resource to find out more information about Nevada's state symbols.
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NSTATE

New Mexico State Symbols and Emblems

For Students 9th - 10th
Which state has a balloon museum and a hot air balloon for an aircraft symbol? New Mexico, of course! Find out all about their state symbols and emblems here. Click on the word for more information and a picture.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Banding Together

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a girl named Sydney who sold wrist bands to raise money and awareness for diabetes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Other

Signs and Symbols of South Dakota

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about the symbols of the state of South Dakota. Find out why and when they were chosen as symbols, and see pictures of them.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Election Central: Campaign Manager: 60 Second Presidents

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students watch videos to determine the best characteristics of a president in order to develop a campaign around these traits. Students watch videos of specific presidents and then create campaign posters which reflect...
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Ohio History Central

Ohio History Central: Ohio State Symbols

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know why states select symbols to represent them? Do you know how Ohio got the nickname "Buckeyes"? Find the answers to these questions and more at this site. Click on the words to be taken to information about the symbol, and a...
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: How Us Presidents Have Communicated With the Public From the Telegraph to Twitter

For Students 9th - 10th
From carefully staged speeches to radio to Twitter, U.S. presidents have always leveraged the cutting edge to connect directly with voters. Two centuries before Twitter, U.S. presidents understood the power of communicating directly with...
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Other

Art Smart

For Students Pre-K - 1st
If you're in NYC, you can go with this group on a museum adventure. I love their slogan: "A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
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Other

Art Smart

For Students Pre-K - 1st
If you're in NYC, you can go with this group on a museum adventure. I love their slogan: "A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
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Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Stokely Carmichael

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Stokely Carmichael, a West-Indian-born civil-rights activist, leader of black nationalism in the United States in the 1960s and originator of its rallying slogan, "black power.".
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270 To Win

270towin: 1840 Presidential Election

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides detailed electoral facts for the presidential election of 1840 easily won by William H. Harrison rallying under the slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too".
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Presidential Election, 1840

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the United States showing the results of the presidential election of 1840. The map is keyed to show the states carried by Harrison (Whig Party), and Van Buren (Democrat). The Whig Party was united at this time, backing...

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