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U.S. History: What Happened Here?
Students apply the global positioning system to create maps of local historical sites. By collaborating with local historical groups, they research events and relate them to broader, national history. In addition to writing essays...
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What is Your Story?
Students conduct an interview with a member of their family in preparation for writing their own family histories. They listen to their teacher's family story, and listen to the book "Picnic in October." Students then conduct their...
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The Importance of Self-Governance in Changing Laws
Students examine the teachings of Gandhi and King. In this nonviolent resistance lesson, students listen to a lecture that reveals how Gandhi and King educated their followers about nonviolent resistance. Students analyze contemporary...
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What is a Treaty?
Students examine the notion of terra nullius, the idea under which Australia was settled. Then they compare the economic and social outcomes for Australia's indigenous people under terra nullius with those of other indigenous peoples...
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Fugitive from Labor Cases:
High schoolers examine the cases of Henry Garnett and Moses Honner, both of the 1850s. Students analyze the political climate building up to the Civil War through the lens of these similar cases with different outcomes.
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Jewish Culture Through Food Recipes
Young scholars engage in studying Jewish culture through the experience of tasting and eating different foods. They answer key questions that are used to guide the lesson. The foods of Americans is contrasted with the Jewish foods.
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Being an Insider/Outsider to Judaism
Students explore and analyze the history of Judaism with all its ups and downs throughout history as well as its traditions and cultures that have survived a lifetime of ridicule and controversy. They relate the feeling that the majority...
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Jewish Diversity: Travels of Jewish Foods and Jewish Families
Pupils are introduced to Jewish history thorugh food and various ingredients. As a class, they read a passage from the Bible about the exodus from Egypt and answer discussion questions. They make traditional Jewish meals with their...
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Bank On It! The King and the Enchantress
For this language arts worksheet, students fill in the 10 blanks of a story with words from the word blank. The activity is a short cloze worksheet.
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Tic Tac Toe Math Addition
In this tic-tac-toe math game activity, students practice their one-digit addition skills as they play two rounds of the math game with a partner.
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Tic Tac Toe Math Addition 2
In this tic-tac-toe math game worksheet, students practice their one-digit addition skills as they play two rounds of the math game with a partner.
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Tic Tac Toe Math Addition 5
In this tic-tac-toe math game worksheet, students practice their two-digit addition skills as they play two rounds of the math game with a partner.
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Tic Tac Toe Math Addition 6
In this tic-tac-toe math game worksheet, learners practice their three digit addition skills as they play two rounds of the math game with a partner.
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Nuremberg Remembered: Guilt and Responsibility
Students explore the Nuremberg trials. For this Holocaust instructional activity, students research the Nuremberg trials. They gather primary sources or documents to support their arguments for the charges against people examined in the...
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Gandhi on Poverty, Violence, and Well-Being of All
Eighth graders explore the concept of Sarvodaya. In this nonviolent resistance lesson, 8th graders listen to a lecture about Gandhi's teachings and determine how poverty is a form of violence.
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Nonviolence and Conflict: Its Importance to Building Community
Students study nonviolence and the values associated with nonviolence. In this social science lesson, students identify the six steps of nonviolence and the six principles of nonviolence as put forth by Martin Luther King, Jr. Students...
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All About Me & the School Experience
Students create a book documenting their school experience. After completing a class read of "Clifford's First School Day," students discuss what it is like being at school. They use a book template to create their own first days of...
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Purim, Jewish Leaders, And The Roles We Choose
Students participate in the Jewish holiday of Purim. They are concerned with the idea of changing an identity for one day. The focus of this study is upon leadership as the students role play different leaders and make decisions to model...
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Bank on It! -- Moose at the Pond
In this language arts worksheet, students study a word bank with 9 words and use them to finish the sentences about a moose at a pond.
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Tic Tac Toe Math Addition 3
In this tic-tac-toe math game worksheet, students practice their two-digit addition skills as they play two rounds of the math game with a partner.
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Tic Tac Toe Math Addition 4
In this tic-tac-toe math game worksheet, students practice their two-digit addition skills as they play two rounds of the math game with a partner.
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Tic Tac Toe Math Addition 7
In this tic-tac-toe math game worksheet, learners practice their three digit addition skills as they play two rounds of the math game with a partner.
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Tic Tac Toe Math Addition 8
For this tic-tac-toe math game worksheet, students practice their three digit addition skills as they play two rounds of the math game with a partner.
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Tic Tac Toe Math Addition 9
In this tic-tac-toe math game worksheet, students practice their one-digit addition skills as they play two rounds of the math game with a partner.