This lesson plan covers the Armenian Genocide and its effects on the ...
This lesson plan covers the Armenian Genocide and its effects on the world, and includes a procedural outline as well as discussion questions and activities.
This guide takes users through 10 step-by-step activities on FRED®, the free ...
This guide takes users through 10 step-by-step activities on FRED®, the free online economic database of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, to show how quickly and easily it is to find and graph economic data and save and share them as a custom graph. The FRED database includes more than 390,000 economic data time series from dozens of national, international, public, and private sources. FRED allows users to combine and display data with an easy-to-master mix of tools. With just a few minutes of practice, anyone can use FRED to tell a story using data. The dataset used for these activities is real gross domestic product (GDP).
This resource defines sociological imagination and the beliefs and assumptions of functionalism, ...
This resource defines sociological imagination and the beliefs and assumptions of functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and exchange theory.
Explore climate and latitude relative to the settlement of the original 13 ...
Explore climate and latitude relative to the settlement of the original 13 colonies.
GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the instructor from a single computer/projector classroom arrangement. No installation, fees, or logins are necessary to use these materials and software.
This site provides information about colonial America, the immigration of different groups, ...
This site provides information about colonial America, the immigration of different groups, commerce and industry, politics, and the influence of the church. Students will learn about the factors that categorized all of the American colonies, as well as the differences between the northern, middle and southern colonies. A video is included as well as a quiz.
This resource discusses how and why social inequality in the larger society ...
This resource discusses how and why social inequality in the larger society manifests itself in higher education, describes the extent of school violence and the controversy over zero-tolerance policies, and describes how schooling in the United States helps perpetuate social inequality.
Changes in voting qualifications and participation, the election of Andrew Jackson, and ...
Changes in voting qualifications and participation, the election of Andrew Jackson, and the formation of the Democratic Party"”due largely to the organizational skills of Martin Van Buren"”all contributed to making the election of 1828 and Jackson's presidency a watershed in the evolution of the American political system.
This lesson examines public commentary on a law that sought to reduce ...
This lesson examines public commentary on a law that sought to reduce the cost of looking after poor people by putting them in workhouses in exchange for food and clothing.
In this lesson, students will use information to draw conclusions from maps, ...
In this lesson, students will use information to draw conclusions from maps, charts, and graphs. After analyzing the information, they will determine the 1860 election results and the impact of the results on the Civil War.
In this collaborative activity, student groups are given a packet of primary ...
In this collaborative activity, student groups are given a packet of primary source documents that relate to a specific country's role in WWI. Students are tasked with identifying their assigned country by examining the documents.
In this lesson, students are introduced to the importance of consumerism in ...
In this lesson, students are introduced to the importance of consumerism in the 1920s and recognize the connections between commodities and culture in the American past and present.
This is a short video outlining the causes and effects of a ...
This is a short video outlining the causes and effects of a magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964. Additional resources include a background essay and discussion questions.
This inquiry-led lesson guides students through writing a newspaper article about a ...
This inquiry-led lesson guides students through writing a newspaper article about a mining accident in Trimdon Grange, discussing its causes, its consequences, and the impact on life in the town and elsewhere.
In this activity, students will look at an old photograph and answer ...
In this activity, students will look at an old photograph and answer questions about the subjects related to who they are, where they live, and what they do.
This lesson engages students with original documents related to prison hulks to ...
This lesson engages students with original documents related to prison hulks to discover how the criminal justice system worked in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, especially with respect to "mercy".
In this lesson, students will review cardinal directions and/or positional words when ...
In this lesson, students will review cardinal directions and/or positional words when giving directions to a partner on how to navigate from one marked square and another on a paper grid sheet.
In this activity, students examine an advertisement from 1847 and answer a ...
In this activity, students examine an advertisement from 1847 and answer a series of questions. The questions are designed to guide students into a deeper analysis of the source and sharpen associated cognitive skills.
In this lesson, students use an analysis worksheet prompting students to read ...
In this lesson, students use an analysis worksheet prompting students to read and analyze historic recipes using twenty questions. Included are sample recipes, including: Martha Washington's Great Cake Recipe, as well as 18th century recipes for Ice Cream, Broiled Herring, and Indian Pudding.
In this lesson, students use an object analysis worksheet prompting students to ...
In this lesson, students use an object analysis worksheet prompting students to read and analyze objects using twenty questions. Included are photographs of sample objects for analysis, including: the Key to the Bastille, Martha Washington's shoes, George Washington's Field Bedstead, the Houdon Bust of George Washington, and a Surveyor's Compass.
For this activity, students research questions about the climate of the United ...
For this activity, students research questions about the climate of the United States and the technology used in locating directions and areas on Earth. Students read the scenario, write & illustrate the chain of events to show the positive and negative situations surrounding the scenario. Vocabulary from the Challenging Social Studies Activities-Second Grade unit are needed for this activity.
For this activity, students research questions about the climate of the United ...
For this activity, students research questions about the climate of the United States and the technology used in locating directions and areas on Earth. Students read the scenario, write & illustrate the chain of events to show the positive and negative situations surrounding the scenario. Vocabulary from the Challenging Social Studies Activities-Second Grade unit are needed for this activity.
In this lesson from Teaching Tolerance, students will focus the most recent ...
In this lesson from Teaching Tolerance, students will focus the most recent constitutional expansion of voting rights: extending them to people between 18 and 21 years of age. Students will read the 26th Amendment and learn about its history. They will view an NBC report from Nov. 5, 2008, that explains how important the youth vote was to the election of Barack Obama. Finally, they will examine the results of a recent study showing that young voters have very different concerns than older voters, and hypothesize about how young voters might affect elections in the future.
As students study Harriet Tubman and her contribution to the Underground Railroad, ...
As students study Harriet Tubman and her contribution to the Underground Railroad, students will create a map that is labeled with coordinates and contains a number of stops at safehouses. Students will then create a paper map or a technological representation using a program for Dash to start from a specific location and travel along the Underground Railroad.
As students study Harriet Tubman and her contribution to the Underground Railroad, ...
As students study Harriet Tubman and her contribution to the Underground Railroad, students will create a map that is labeled with coordinates and contains a number of stops at safehouses. Students will then create a program for Dash to start from a specific location and travel along the Underground Railroad.
This resource describes the history of ethics codes for scientific research with ...
This resource describes the history of ethics codes for scientific research with human participants and summarizes the American Psychological Association Ethics Code.
This resource summarizes the primary functions of the CNS and of the ...
This resource summarizes the primary functions of the CNS and of the subsystems of the PNS and explain how the electrical components of the nervous system and the chemical components of the endocrine system together to influence behavior.
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