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Library of Sample Lessons
ARTSEDGE
1) Oklahoma! and the Cultural Myth of America (9-12)
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2342/
Students explore the cultural myth of the Old West. After an introductory
discussion about cultural ideals and values, students read "The Significance of
the Frontier in American History" and discuss essayist Frederick Jackson
Turner's thoughts and assumptions about the American character. They then view
the musical Oklahoma!
and analyze the extent to which the musical reflects or supports Turner's ideas
about "American-ness."
2) Xploring Xtremes (6-12)
http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3062/
Experience music "in the extreme!" Analyze the effect of extreme dynamics,
tempo, and more through online listening activities.
EconEdLink
3) Dog Gone Job! (K-2)
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM195&page=teacher
In this lesson, students will watch a video of workers at a kennel and talk
about the types of jobs that they saw. They also will complete a drag and drop
activity to learn about job specialization.
4) "I'll Trade You a Bag of Chips, Two Cookies, and $60,000 for Your Tuna Fish
Sandwich" (9-12) (Also available in the Secondary Teacher's Guide.)
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM46&page=teacher
The goals of this lesson are to explain that supply and demand are the factors
that determine the market price of a good; to describe why some goods are more
expensive than others; and to graph supply and demand curves from data.
EDSITEment
5) Traces: Historic Archaeology (3-5) (Also available on the Training CD.)
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=312
In this unit, students will "recover" and analyze artifacts from sites in use
from the settlement period to the second half of the 19th century. They will
look for similarities and differences among the artifacts and the lives they
reveal. In conclusion, students will look at today's artifacts of the future
and consider how we will be viewed in the future.
6) Women in Africa: Tradition and Change (6-12)
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=307
This lesson will teach students about the role of women in traditional African
village life; help students understand the contextual nature of artwork within
traditional African village life; familiarize students with women writers of
postcolonial Africa; and enable students to examine how the traditions of
village life influence postcolonial literature.
Illuminations
7) Paper Pool - How Many Hits? (6-8)
http://illumnew.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L602
The interactive paper pool game in the Illuminations unit provides an opportunity for students to further
develop their understanding of ratio, proportion, similar figures, and multiples.
8) Shedding the Light (9-12)
http://illumnew.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=U137
The activities in this Illuminations unit develop a mathematical model for the decay of light passing
through water. The series of four lessons shows the use of exponential models in context.
ReadWriteThink
9) Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime (K-2)
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=103
Students will learn to recognize the ig pattern, brainstorm words with the ig
rime, find ig words in literature and use the ig words that they learn in their
own writing.
10) Biographies: Creating Timelines of a Life (3-5)
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=26
Students are invited to explore multiple biographical sources and resolve
conflicting information in order to create an interactive timeline about the
life of a person.
Science NetLinks
11) Reaction Time (3-5) (Older version also available on the Training CD under
the former title "Learning.")
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=6&DocID=68
In this lesson, students will engage in two online reaction time tests. They
will track their progress, taking note of any strategies that help them improve
their performance. This lesson encourages students to think about their
learning and illustrates that skills, when practiced, can become automatic.
12) Yellowstone Wolves (6-8) (Also available in the Secondary Teacher's Guide.)
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=5&DocID=78
In this lesson, students will use the Internet to explore relationships between
habitats and species (specifically the gray wolf and those species with which
it must coexist) as well as the effect of physical and human forces on living
things and their environment.
Xpeditions
13) Greeting Friends from Other Places (K-2)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/gk2/friends.html
Students will be introduced to map reading by examining the
"Afghanistan, Land in Crisis" map (available in print or online).
Students will practice different types of greetings and learn how children in
Afghanistan might greet one another.
14) Was the United States Ready for Pearl Harbor? (9-12)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/13/g912/ready.html
This lesson asks students to consider the United States' level of preparedness
for Pearl Harbor and to think about what the U.S. could have done to be better
prepared. Students will conclude by writing letters to American military
commanders in the summer of 1941, suggesting what they might do to prepare for
a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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