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Cemetery Studies
Going to a local cemetery can have many educational values. One main purpose of studying a cemetery is to encourage an appreciation of the unique historical significance of that place. You will find lessons in most of the content areas.
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Civil Rights Movement
An internet project for teaching the civil rights movement.
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Consumer Jungle: Car-fari
During completion of this unit, students will have an opportunity to explore the entire car buying process including personal needs assessment, financing, budgeting, and comparison shopping.
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Consumer Jungle: Credit Cave Curriculum
A comprehensive unit providing students with strategies for effectively managing credit. Topics include types of credit, appropriate and inappropriate use of credit, and selection and management of credit cards.
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Consumer Jungle: Jingle in the Jungle
While completing this unit, students will have an opportunity to explore the range of telecommunication options available to them, assess their personal needs and wants in this area, and develop and practice strategies for effective comparison shopping for services. Students will also have an opportunity to identify common telecommunication frauds and develop strategies for preventing them.
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Consumer Jungle: Surviving Solo
When students finish this unit, they will have an opportunity to realistically assess the affordability of moving out on their own and then develop an individualized action plan for achieving this goal.
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Exploring Arthurian Legend
The goal of this lesson is to have students examine the historical origins of the Arthurian legend; to investigate how medieval historians and storytellers reflected the concerns of their own times in their treatment of the legend; to gain insight into the use of literature as historical evidence.
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How Intelligent Adults Came to Use Terms Like 'The Red Menace'
Part One of the Cold War unit. In the post World War II era, the government of the United States' foreign policy was focused on stamping out communism both inside and outside of its borders.
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Learning to use the Power Point Program
Students will learn how to create a Power Point Presentation.
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Life on the Great Plains
In this four-part lesson, students examine the concept of geographic region by exploring the history of the Great Plains.
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NATO's bombing of Kosovo: Humanitarian Action or Unwarranted Aggression?
This lesson addresses the NATO bombing of Kosovo, analyzing its stated objectives, placing it in its international context, and examining its impact on both Serbians and ethnic Albanians. It encourages students to gather information from as many sources as possible to contrast views on the bombing and assess the mission's fairness and effectiveness.
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Political Cartoons: Introduction to Symbols
Studenst use their current understanding of symbols and apply it to politics.
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Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film
In this lesson, students employ the screenwriter's craft to gain a fresh perspective on historical research, learning how filmmakers combine scholarship and imagination to bring historical figures to life and how the demands of cinematic storytelling can shape our view of the past.
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Spies, Communism, and Bananas
Part Three of the Cold War unit. : In 1954, a CIA-backed coup overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala and established a brutal military dictatorship in its place.
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Technological Advances in Communication
This investigation is intended to engage students in exploring the technological advances made in the field of communication.
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The CIA's Covert Operations
Part Two of the Cold War unit. The CIA, formed in the aftermath of World War II, conducted numerous covert operations in the name of keeping the United States safe, and protecting its interests.
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Who Would You Rather Be?
This lesson combines history, biography, and writing skills by asking students to compare/contrast two historical figures, and argue successfully about which they'd rather be.
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