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    Understanding September 11th

    Filled with pictures, maps, and straightforward explanations, this is the book that will enable young people to…

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    Skill Builders: Geography Challenge Questions, Week 4

    Week 4: Geography questions to help students learn research skills and discover fun facts.

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    Skill Builders: Geography Challenge Questions, Week 3

    Week 3: Geography questions to help students learn research skills and discover fun facts.

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    Skill Builders: Geography Challenge Questions, Week 2

    Week 2: Geography questions to help students learn research skills and discover fun facts.

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    Skill Builders: Geography Challenge Questions, Week 6

    Week 5: Geography questions to help students learn research skills and discover fun facts.

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  • Has the Past Been Just?

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    Has the Past Been Just?

    The second lesson in Beyond Blame: Reacting to the Terrorist Attack deals with the reactions Americans had toward…

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  • How Can You Prevent Injustice?

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    How Can You Prevent Injustice?

    The third lesson in Beyond Blame: Reacting to the Terrorist Attacks helps students to examine the possible repercussions…

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    Choosing Plymouth - Pilgrim Study Unit (Lesson 3 of 7)

    Students will learn about Colonial times and the factors that determined the Pilgrims settling in Plymouth,…

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    Culture and Diversity
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    Election Vocabulary Brainstorm

    In this lesson students will be asked to generate vocabulary related to elections. They will find these words in the…

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    U.S. Elections
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    Holiday Paper Chains

    In this arts and crafts lesson, children make paper chains with symbols from various holidays, such as Christmas,…

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    Olympic Games
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    Team Teaching Spanish

    Students become the "teacher" to help themselves and others learn.

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    Foreign Languages
    Mexican History and Hispanic Heritage
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    Political Events and Summer Olympic Games

    Students create a timeline of political events and their effects on the Summer Olympic Games.

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    Origins of Asian-Pacific-American Heritage Month

    Learn about the celebration of Asian-Pacific-American (APA) Heritage Month -- a celebration of Asian and Pacific…

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    Perspectives on War

    Explore an activity that introduces students to the words and ideas of prominent people who have spoken and written…

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    Lessons from History

    Students visit a website of historical American events to help them identify the lessons people can and should learn…

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  • Hands Off!

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    Hands Off!

    Explain what the Monroe Doctrine said, and why President Monroe wrote it.

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  • The Heartbreak of Pioneering

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    The Heartbreak of Pioneering

    In order to survive the rigors of frontier life, pioneers often faced difficult moral choices.

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    Colonization
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  • Merchants and Miners

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    Merchants and Miners

    The economics of the Gold Rush were based on an extreme case of supply and demand: merchants had control of the meager…

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  • Sanctuary

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    Sanctuary

    Offer a rational opinion about a hypothetical situation involving conscience versus the law.

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    Slavery in United States
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  • How the West Was Won

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    How the West Was Won

    Identify one reason white settlers wanted Indian lands, and then explain one method the government used in obtaining…

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  • Muckraker's Cake

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    Muckraker's Cake

    Identify who the Progressives were and recognize one industry they wanted regulated.

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  • Crash

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    Crash

    Review the 1920s by simulating the meteoric rise of that decade's stock market, which ended in a disastrous crash.

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  • What Really Happened?

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    What Really Happened?

    In this activity, students will have to check facts and references in a historical fiction story for accuracy.

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  • You Are There!

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    You Are There!

    In this creative writing activity, students will write an original historical fiction story.

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