In this lesson, students will discuss Constitution Day and why people need rules. They can also create their own Constitution.
In this resource, students can learn about the impact of fishing and fishing communities through out the United States. This site is connected with the Smithsonian Museum.
Students will study "Flamingo Capsule", a painting by James Rosenquist drawing on the Apollo 1 training disaster. Students will try to connect the painting to the event by deconstructing the painting. Students will consider Rosenquist's composition and discuss the level of success the artist reached in portraying two opposite concepts within a single work. Students will research newspaper accounts of the Apollo 1 tragedy and create their own work responding to the event. Students will also experiment with scaling-up, the technique Rosenquist used to produce very large works.
Students will create a timeline outlining various groups' struggles for equal opportunity and create a 30-second radio or video public service announcement (PSA).
Students will explore a grocery store in search of food traditions brought to America by immigrants.
This resource is an article from the Smithsonian Magazine about a Russian family which fled into Siberia in the 1930's and was not seen by other humans until the 1970's. The article discusses why they fled, how they lived, and what impact this had on their children.
In this lesson, students will define economic wants and explain how wants are personal and may differ from person to person and illustrate how weather can influence the choice of what to wear and how to play.
Students will listen to some freedom songs on the Internet, and then make their own version of one of the songs.
In this lesson, students read primary and secondary source documents about the Supreme Court cases National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977) and Brandenburg v. Ohio (1968) and freedom of speech. Students then answer analysis questions about the case. There is a teacher answer key included in the lesson.
Students will compare and contrast works of art; learn observational techniques; become familiar with buildings in their community; learn the terms foreground, middle ground, and background, as well as terms for describing objects such as line, color, shape, form, and pattern.
In these units, students can discover the Spanish and Mexican roots of American cowboy culture in this set of four lessons, divided into grades K–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12. The youngest students look for the Spanish origins of cowboy words (lasso from lazo, for example). Older students do a bit of translation work: they compose a rhyming cowboy ballad based on a Mexican corrido.
Students will collaborate with a group of students and select a Culture Project to complete together in school. The group will choose, design and plan and implement what the groups roles will be and what materials are needed to complete the project. The teacher should allow the students to work on projects in school so that equal participation is taking place and can be observed. The students may select the countries in the folktale unit to research or one of their own as long as the project goals are met and agreed upon by all members in the group.This lesson was developed by Lisa Bruet as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Students will watch "Blow After Blow" by Garmendia (link provided). They will also view works by Salaberria and Zabala. Through discussion and analysis, students will explore "context" as it relates to process and method. Students will also research punk music from different parts of the world, find photographs that compare past and present events noting aesthetic differences while considering how new technologies have changed both war and journalism. Finally, students will re-design a Salaberria exhibition.
Students will watch and discuss an exerpt from Garmendia's "Untitled Orbea" 2007. Students will explore, video, and discuss a relevant object from the school. Students will consider local traditions, events, habits, or an unusual behavior in their community and create an imaginary monument that represents their community. Students will also design furniture playing with the function of the object.
Students will understand that applying the various Elements of Geography helps us to understand our past. By exploring the World in Spatial Terms, Places and Regions, Physical Systems, Human Systems, and Environment and Society, we can use Geography to comprehend the issues of history, identify where events took place, what those places were like, how the places changed over time, and how people thought of the world at different times.
Students will learn about the life of North Carolina's first professional poet, George Moses Horton, who was born into slavery in Chatham County, North Carolina. By reading, discussing, and preparing dramatic presentations of Horton's poetry, students will gain an understanding and appreciation of Horton's literary contribution, even under the great adversity of enslavement.
This resource is part of the German Propaganda Archive, a collection of translations of propaganda material from the Nazi and East German eras. It covers propaganda in the German Democatic Republic (the GDR) for the period 1949-1989, and contains speeches, political cartoons, pamphlets, posters, and newspaper articles. These primary source documents are useful for studying the Cold War conflict in Germany.
Students can use their senses to see, smell, and feel what it would have been like to live on the prairie long ago.
In this lesson, students read primary and secondary source documents about the Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden and federalism. Students then answer analysis questions about the case. There is a teacher answer key included in the lesson.
In this lesson, students read primary and secondary source documents about the Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright and the 6th amendment. Students then answer analysis questions about the case. There is a teacher answer key included in the lesson.