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English Language Arts
Reading and Viewing
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American Stories: Teens and ImmigrationIn this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore the experience of four teen immigrants to the United States. |
5-12 |
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Analyzing Primary Source MediaIn this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students analyze primary source news footage to gain insights into public sentiment toward historical figures, issues, and events of the past 50 years. |
6-12 |
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Baseball and Social Change: The Story of Roberto ClementeIn this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore how a culture changes as new groups of people enter it, focusing on the experiences of baseball player Roberto Clemente and the influence of Latino culture in the United States. |
5-12 |
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Building the Erie CanalIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students look at how the construction of the Erie Canal brought about major changes within United States, particularly in New York City, upstate New York, and the Midwest. |
5-12 |
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Building the Pyramids of Ancient EgyptIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the pyramids of ancient Egypt, the pyramids' role in Egyptian society, and historians' theories about how the Egyptians were able to build these massive structures. |
5-12 |
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BullyingIn this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students think about the impact of bullying on individuals' rights in a democratic society. |
5-12 |
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Character Change: The Diary of Anne FrankIn this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students examine how Anne Frank's character changed while she was in hiding from the Nazis in World War II. |
5-12 |
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Character Conflict: Language ImmersionIn this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore conflict as a plot device through the story of Moises, a fictional young immigrant to the United States. |
5-8 |
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The Columbian ExchangeIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore the movement of plants, animals, and diseases that characterized the Columbian Exchange and learn how it changed the world. |
5-12 |
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Conflict Over Western LandsIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore how the differing worldviews of white settlers and Native Americans led to conflicts over land when Americans surged westward in the 1860s. |
5-12 |
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Continental Drift: What's the Big Idea?In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the theory that explains the position of Earth's continents was established and later modified, and gain important insights into how science and the scientific community operate. |
5-12 |
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Energy Transfer in a Roller CoasterIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine energy forms in moving objects and discover how changes from one form to another move cars through a roller coaster ride. |
5-12 |
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Fact and Opinion: Parents, Teens, and TextingIn this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore the debate between parents and teens over texting and interpret facts to form and support their opinions. |
5-12 |
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The Facts About ConcussionsIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore brain injuries called concussions: what they are, how they occur, the challenges in diagnosing them, and ways to protect yourself from them. |
5-12 |
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Florida's Everglades: The River of GrassIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the unique environment of southern Florida's Everglades and gain insights into the interrelatedness of living things, nonliving things, and climate. |
5-12 |
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Forces of Gravity and Air ResistanceIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the forces of gravity and air resistance affect the motion of falling objects. |
5-12 |
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From Slavery to Freedom in Colonial TimesIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine the life of Venture Smith, an African man enslaved in America, to learn about the experiences of enslaved and free African Americans in the New England colonies. |
5-12 |
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Life OnlineIn this media-rich lesson, students examine how digital technologies have changed the way people communicate, and decide where they stand on a range of online behaviors. |
6-12 |
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Migrant Mother: Documenting American Life in the 1930s Through PhotographyIn this lesson students are introduced to Dorothea Lange and learn how she used documentary photography to illustrate the social and economic conditions facing Americans during the Great Depression. |
8-12 |
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Newton's Third Law: Action–ReactionIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, an early astronaut's experiences teach students that Newton's third law of motion—for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction—applies both on Earth and in outer space. |
7-12 |
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