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Virginia Historical Society

Virginia Historical Society: Surviving War: The Home Front

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibition that looks at what life was like for Virginians under military occupation. Many of them became refugees rather than stay while Union troops invaded their lands, stealing crops, burning fields, and taking over homes.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Excerpt From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Chapter 12

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Invasion of the Modern World

For Students 9th - 10th
Loggers steal trees from the rainforest of Cameroon, one of Earth's oldest living ecosystems, in this video segment from Africa.
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Interactive
BBC

Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Physical Processes: Friction

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use your knowledge about friction to help Carrie get to the Invigatron before someone steals it. Following the activity, read more about friction and resistance, and then take a quick quiz to check for understanding.
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Unit Plan
Language Guide

Language Guide: La Construccion

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In the city, one might see all kinds of construction going on. Learn how to say words pertaining to things you might see at a construction site by moving your mouse over the illustration to hear the correct Spanish pronunciation.
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Unit Plan
Language Guide

Language Guide: La Construccion

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In the city, one might see all kinds of construction going on. Learn how to say words pertaining to things you might see at a construction site by moving your mouse over the illustration to hear the correct Spanish pronunciation.
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Activity
Other

Cyber Smart!: Whose Is It, Anyway? [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
A worksheet to accompany a lesson where students learn that, although the Internet makes it very easy, copying others' work and presenting it as one's own is unethical, unfair, and unacceptable.
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Handout
Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Ancient Greece: Karpathos

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on the Karpathos, the residence of the gods located in the Dodecanese area.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Liesel Meminger is only nine years old when she is taken to live with a foster family, the Hubermanns, on Himmel Street in Molching, Germany, in the late 1930s. She arrives with few possessions, but among them is The Grave Digger's...
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Activity
University of Oxford (UK)

Beazley Archive: Hesperides

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated dictionary entry for Hesperides, the keeper of the golden apples that Herakles must steal for his Eleventh Labour. Describes the plan that Herakles devised to obtain the precious apples.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdyke

For Teachers 6th - 9th
In the fall of 1939 the Nazis invaded Irene Gut's beloved Poland, ending her training as a nurse and thrusting the sixteen-year-old Catholic girl into a world of degradation that somehow gave her the strength to accomplish what amounted...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Our Buggy Moral Code

For Students 9th - 10th
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons some think it's OK to cheat or steal. Clever studies help make his point that we're predictably irrational- and can be influenced in ways we can't...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Secret Victories of the Kgb

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the role of espionage in wartime and investigate Soviet spy activities during the Cold War. Trace the history of the atomic bomb and explore Soviet activities in stealing nuclear secrets during the Manhattan Project.
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Interactive
Other

Department of Energy: Lolly vs. the Energy Monkeys

For Students 9th - 10th
It's a race against time to see if you can find all the ways energy is being wasted in Lolly's house. If you don't react in time the alien "energy monkeys" will steal your energy. Flash is required.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Vegetable Thief

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a brother and sister who work together to solve the mystery of who has been stealing vegetables from the community garden. A question sheet is available to help students build...
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the novel The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a mystery novel. German Leopold von Ragastein meets Englishman Everard Dominey, in Africa, and plans to murder him and steal his identity to spy on...
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Lesson Plan
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 19: Runaway Slaves

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The Underground Railroad was a significant part of American History. It served as a lifeline to hundreds of slaves who risked their lives to escape the horrors of bondage. Through readings of primary sources and listening to music,...
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Lesson Plan
Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Saving Grace Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After initially giving up her baby for adoption, Evie steals her back because she believes the baby is not being properly cared for. When the baby gets sick, Evie must make the difficult decision to get medical help and thus be...
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Lesson Plan
Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Watch Me Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In Watch Me by Norah McClintock, Kaz yields to temptation and steals an elderly lady's purse after initially setting out to help her get up from a fall. Then he learns he must confront the serious consequences of his actions. This...
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Lesson Plan
Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Runaway Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In Runaway, a novel by Becky Citra, a boy must make some difficult decisions about whether to help another boy that he has seen steal but who is also being physically abused. The story is set in the 1830s in Upper Canada. This teacher's...
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PBS

Pbs: A World of Stories: The Piper's Cold Feet

For Students K - 1st Standards
Pennsylvania-based storyteller Megan Hicks tells a traditional Scottish tale about a piper who steal's a dead man boots, but comes to regret it.
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Radio

For Students 9th - 10th
This multi-stanza poem describes scenarios where a radio was stolen out of a car.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Slavery and Freedom: Sorrow Songs

For Students 9th - 10th
Sorrow Songs are examined as the music the African American slaves of the antebellum South to express both sadness and despair as well as well as hope for better. See "Sorrow Songs Activities" for related artifacts and activities.
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Primary
Eserver

E Server: Poetry Collection: Shakespeare: Sonnet 92

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 92.

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