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The Colonization of the United StatesUsing video segments from the PBS series Finding Your Roots, this lesson explores Spanish colonialism in the Southwest; the lesson also expands the discussion to include other countries that colonized in North America. |
9-12 |
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Coming to AmericaUsing video segments from the PBS series Finding Your Roots, this lesson explores why groups of people leave their native countries, often to come to the United States, and what major historical milestones prompted mass migrations. |
9-12 |
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Compare and Contrast - City Pigeons and City ParrotsStudents take notes on similarities and differences between two types of city birds using a T-chart and then construct a Venn diagram to compare and contrast them. |
4-8 |
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Compare and Contrast Information from Multiple Sources - Wolong's PandasStudents compare and contrast information from three sources to determine the reasons that contributed to panda population decline. They draw conclusions from these sources by writing their own paragraphs. |
5-7 |
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Comparing and Contrasting - Explorers of Yesterday and TodayStudents write essays that compare and contrast two explorers of Yellowstone National Park, Tom Murphy, a modern day explorer and photographer and John Colter, an explorer who traveled across the same area almost 200 years ago. |
6-8 |
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Comparing and Contrasting - Grassland, Desert, and Forest ElephantsStudents use a T-chart to take notes on the similarities and differences among elephants. With partners, they organize their notes and construct a Venn diagram with illustrations. |
6-8 |
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Comparing and Contrasting Information and Forming an Opinion - Santiago and MorrisStudents use a T-Chart to take notes and then write a compare/contrast paragraph about a therapy dog. |
5-7 |
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Comparing Education Around the WorldStudents compare and contrast the circumstances surrounding two boys’ experiences at schools in different countries. |
3-5 |
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Comparing the Density of Liquids, Solids, and GasesStudents compare the relative densities of different liquids and then solids, and also explore the density of air versus the density of water. |
3-5 |
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Condense, Combine or Categorize New Information - Your Brain and Moral Decision-MakingStudents watch a video showing an experiment on how the brain responds when making moral decisions. They then synthesize information to create a summary paragraph that describes the experiment and the conclusions presented. |
6-8 |
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Connections Between Texts - Maya Lin and Jane JacobsStudents write and perform a Readers’ Theater script in which two characters, Maya Lin and Jane Jacobs, talk to each other about their ideas about architecture and life. |
6-8 |
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Connections to Personal Experiences - Bees? Yikes!Students make connections between a video about bees and their own personal experiences through a poem written for two voices. |
5-7 |
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The Coral Reef EcosystemStudents examine a coral reef ecosystem to learn about its living and non-living parts and how they interact. They apply what they have learned to explore the world's biomes, including how the animals in each are adapted to their environment. |
6-8 |
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Counting and Place ValueStudents explore counting through the concept of place value in our base-10 numeration system. They practice grouping in groups of ten and groups of ten tens. |
2-5 |
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Counting into the Ten-thousandsStudents are introduced to place value into the 10,000s through the use of an abacus. They practice writing and recognizing large numbers. |
3-6 |
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Creating a Hypothesis - The Intelligent RobotStudents watch a video segment that discusses developing intelligent robots, and then write paragraphs that provide detailed hypotheses of results that could come from this endeavor. |
6-12 |
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Creating Equal SharesStudents practice fractions by sharing certain numbers of objects among different numbers of people. They begin with unit fractions and move to sharing multiple objects among multiple people, in which a < b, and to produce fractions less than one. |
3-6 |
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Creating Literary Texts - Finding Homes for PetsStudents write and illustrate a persuasive book to convince readers to adopt a pet. |
5-7 |
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Creativity in ScienceThis lesson will take a look at the different roles scientists play in discoveries. |
5-8 |
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Crescent City Gumbo: Race & Jazz in New OrleansThis lesson uses video excerpts from the PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to explore the history of racial diversity and intermingling in New Orleans, and how it gave rise to the uniquely American art form of jazz. |
9-12 |
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