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Colonial Settlement and Environmental Problems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work together to develop a chart showing the relationship between the settlement of the United States and environmental problems. Using this information, they identify the human activities responsible for damaging the...
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From Riches to Rice

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders identify and locate Africa, the United States, the Original 13 colonies, and the region of West Africa on a map. They list examples of culture and African American culture. Students link the culture of West Africa with the...
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How Do You Get To Korea?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the differences between Korea and the United States. In groups, they identify the physical and political characteristics of Asia and discuss how the geographic features in Korea affect the activities performed there. ...
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Lesson #3: Internet Map Activity

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners label assembly centers and relocation camps on a given map of the United States in order to create a better understanding of the relocation experience of Japanese-American citizens and the distance that families had to move and...
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Exploring Racial and Ethnic Diversity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore and examine racial and ethinic diversity in the metropolitan areas of the United States. They examine data from the US Census Description of Race and Ethnic Categories. Students explore the population by race and...
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VAcations in Northern California

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore the natural resources and National Parks of Northern California that are commonly visited by people traveling in the United States. They use maps to locate various sites, plan a highway travel route and use the internet...
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Who In the World Is Hungry?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers identify the scope of hunger throughout the world. Using United States data, they discover why hunger is important to the United States and its agriculture. They identify goals of sustainable development and food...
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Made in the USA

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students map products made in the United States. They discuss regional interdependence and identify goods the U.S. produces and trades. They describe how economic links make Americans more alike, and locate major manufacturing centers in...
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Onwards and Upwards

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze a graph representing college tuition increases, consider the possible causes and consequences of these tuition increases and collect data on tuition changes at colleges in the United States by region and graph the data.
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Where In The World?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the goods and services from the United States and Mexico. Using postage stamps, they describe the various images they see and place them into categories. They use those categories to determine what is important in...
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Native Americans - Searching for Knowledge and Understanding

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine lives of Native Americans in order to become familiar with contributions to and influences on American society particularly, but not exclusively, in the Western region of the United States. Students focus on...
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Voices at Whisper Bend

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine life in Pennsylvania during and after World War II. Using primary source documents, they compare the unity of the United States during World War II and the Iraq War. They also discover how citizens adapt to the war at home.
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The Many Faces of Coins

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine and discuss the designs on the circulating coins produced by the United States Mint. They read about the woman and child featured on the Golden Dollar. They compare and contrast coins using a Venn Diagram.
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Coin-Shaped Books

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review United States coins throughout history, and create shape books for their favorite coins. Each book contains text and illustrations created by Students.
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Irish-Americans: Work and Song

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the experience of Irish immigrants who helped build the railroad systems of the United States. They analyze primary source documents, take notes, and create an artistic piece.
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Bank On It! Worksheet Cinco de Mayo

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Cinco de May activity, students read a passage about the celebration of Cinco de Mayo in the United States. Students fill in ten missing words to make the text understandable. The words will be of the student's own choice; there...
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Anne Frank: Me Bags

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students fill bags with personal treasures and share the contents of their bags with the class or in pairs. They appreciate and respect differences and similarities between themselves and their classmates. They determine that the United...
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Bald Eagle Population Graphing

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young scholars create graphs to illustrate the bald eagle population. They identify the population of bald eagles in Minnesota and the United States. They create three graphs to represent the population data including a line, bar, and...
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Do Immigrants Benefit Economically and Socially By Coming to the USA?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research positive and negative economic and social aspects of immigration to the United States, and present their research findings in either role play or debate format.
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Glossary Of Federal Reserve Terms

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners engage in a reading of a document in order to become familiar with the Federal Reserve of The United States in the interest of strengthening reading comprehension skills with the exposure to expository literature. They read the...
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African American Emigration: Turner and McNeal

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners discuss reasons why African Americans may have wanted to emigrate from the United States followig the Civil War. They complete a Venn diagram noting the differences between proposals by Marcus Garvey and Henry McNeal Turner.
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Immigrants Welcome?

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the world after the end of World War II. In groups, they complete a Naturalization Review Board activity and discuss how immigrants changed the United States. As a class, they discover how the immigration policies...
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Rights of Non-Citizen Immigrants

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students continue their discussion of if coming to America was the best thing for a group of immigrants. As a class, they complete the citizenship test offered by the INS. They research the benefits and responsibilities of being a...
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Map Activity: Place Name

For Students 4th - 6th
For this map worksheet, students locate given words on a map of the United States, then answer a set of 4 related short answer questions.

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