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(View Complete Item Description)Next steps and support for Webinar #1 of the Curriculum Review Academy.
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American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson introduces students to American colonial life and has them compare the daily life and culture of two different colonies in the late 1700s. Students study artifacts of the thirteen original British colonies and write letters between fictitious cousins in Massachusetts and Delaware.
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The Rosies of the Homefront
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students will use primary and secondary sources to learn about the roles of women on the homefront during WWII. Students will research and write their parts for a class play that will be video-recorded. Students will also compare the effects on the people on the Homefront during WW2 with the people on the Homefront during the U.S. conflicts of today in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Gingerbread Man!
(View Complete Item Description)Students hear one or more versions of The Gingerbread Man fairy tale. Students will then use illustrations from the text or those provided to sequence and retell the story. By using different versions, students compare the adventures of characters in familiar stories.
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Abstraction Expressionism and Pop Art: Art and Politics
(View Complete Item Description)Students will consider the ways that artists respond to political and social events and ideas; think about sources of inspiration; learn about symbols and think about what they represent.
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Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art: Artist's Choice: People
(View Complete Item Description)Students will consider the choices artists make when creating works of art that include people. They will consider style, medium, background, color, technique, and composition; compare images of women as represented by different artists; learn about where artists get their sources and inspiration.
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18th Century Reforms
(View Complete Item Description)State guidelines address various antebellum (pre-Civil War) reform movement - Abolition, Education, Women's Rights
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Enzymatic Browning in Apples- Food Science
(View Complete Item Description)Have you ever wondered what causes your sliced apples to brown? Is there a way to slow this process down or stop it completely? Through this mini lab activity students will be able to continue learning about scientific materials, collecting data, and the importance of research and innovation in agriculture, specifically the area of food science.
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Debating Immigration Restriction: The Ellis Island Era
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students consider arguments for and against unrestricted immigration during the Ellis Island era. Students analyze political cartoons, letters, newspaper articles, posters, and other sources, noting evidence in the documents to support the viewpoints of the various figures in the 1903 cartoon "The Immigrant." This activity also includes modifications for low-level readers.
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10 Creative Strategies for Teaching Chronological Narratives
(View Complete Item Description)This resource provides instructional strategies for teaching chronological narratives.
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Text Features - Sequencing Comic Strip Game
(View Complete Item Description)In this online game, students will further investigate sequencing by placing comic strip panels in the right order. For each scenario, students will use higher order thinking skills to answer questions.
Material Type: Game
Dropping Bowling Balls of Bridges
(View Complete Item Description)Calculating time, distance, and speed of falling objects.
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Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Who's the Real Misfit?
(View Complete Item Description)Known as both a Southern and a Catholic writer, Flannery O'Connor wrote stories that explore the complexities of these two identities. In this lesson, students will challengethese dichotomieswhile closely reading and analyzing "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
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Anne Frank: Writer
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson concentrates on Anne Frank as a writer. After a look at Anne Frank the adolescent, and a consideration of how the experiences of growing up shaped her composition of the Diary, students explore some of the writing techniques Anne invented for herself and practice those techniques with material drawn from their own lives.
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3rd Grade Poetry
(View Complete Item Description)In this unit, students will be introduced to poetry. Students will learn about the different types of poetry characteristics through the use of poetry books, prezi presentations, music, and spoken word.
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Modeling Conditional Probabilities 2
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students understand conditional probability, and, in particular, to help teachers identify and assist students who have the following difficulties: representing events as a subset of a sample space using tables and tree diagrams; and understanding when conditional probabilities are equal for particular and general situations.
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The Plymouth Thanksgiving Story
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, student learn how the Indians helped the Pilgrims and learn additional details about the Wampanoag in this version of the Thanksgiving story.
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Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts - Library of Congress
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson plan introduces the practice of using primary sources; where to find primary sources, what they are, how to examine them, and how to construct a context to tell more of the story.Students will:Analyze personal artifacts as primary sources; Analyze historical primary sources; andConnect historical text with primary sources.Materials/Links Included:Primary Source Analysis ToolPrimary source setsTeacher's guide to Analyzing Primary Sources
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Evidence for Evolution
(View Complete Item Description)Students will uncover what pieces of evidence scientists have for evolution. Students will get to see how many pieces of evidence fit together to give scientists clues about earth history and evolution.
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Active Reading through Self-Assessment: the Student-Made Quiz
(View Complete Item Description)This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They work independently to choose quotations that exemplify the main idea of the text, come to a consensus about those quotations in collaborative groups, then formulate "quiz" questions about their reading that other groups will answer.
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