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Worksheet
Curated OER

Must Know Words for Spelling

For Students 9th - 10th
In this spelling worksheet, students learn key words that are must knows for spelling. There are about three hundred words and cover words from A to Z.
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Lesson Plan
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Making Your Local Ethical Shopping Guide

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Pupils write a research action plan on how to buy products that are environmentally friendly even in tough world conditions. In this ethical business lesson plan, students learn that the economy, food prices, natural disasters, and more...
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Lesson Plan
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Class of 2000 - Student Loans

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students determine how they will finance their postsecondary education. In this student loan lesson, students create spreadsheets that help them budget their first year of college. Students identify methods to fund the budgets and...
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Worksheet
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Plant Structure

For Students 6th - 10th
In this plant science learning exercise, students complete a crossword puzzle with 48 questions. They identify the different parts of a plant.
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Lesson Plan
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Sketch a Scientist

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students draw their perceptions of a typical scientist, evaluate stereotypes in their drawings quantitatively, and then discuss the origins of these stereotypes.
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Lesson Plan
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Landfills and the Potential for Groundwater Contamination

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine how a sanitary landfill is constructed, how it functions, and how waste and leachate affects the areas around the landfill. After a discussion about landfills and leachates, students construct a Sanitary Landfill Model...
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Lesson Plan
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Earthquake Waves

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders pour three cups of sand on the top of a plastic table near the edge. They tap the table lightly with the rubber mallet. When they tap the table lightly they see the sand ump into the air.
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Lesson Plan
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The Flat Earth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are first presented with the idea that the Earth is really flat. They prove that it is not--using a variety of techniques.
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Lesson Plan
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Border Math

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine and interpret data relating to U.S.-Mexico borderland realities, and consider such aspects of social science as the study of population, crime, government spending, pollution, health, and economics.
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Lesson Plan
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Motions

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders differentiate between energy waves transmitted from a quarry or mine as opposed to energy waves transmitted by an earthquake. They analyze seismograms of blast events from at least two quarries or mines. The energy waves...
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Organizer
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Separating Fact from Fiction

For Students Higher Ed
In this English grammar worksheet, students study a chart of definitions and pointers.  Students then read 5 explanations as to how to separate fact from fiction.
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Unit Plan
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Mc Graw Hill: Compare Primary and Secondary Sources

For Students 4th - 9th Standards
Learn how to analyze and compare the relationship between a primary and a secondary source.
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Website
Other

Library of Congress: Teaching With Primary Sources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This website is an excellent resource for teaching with primary sources. This resource features Holocaust lessons, lesson plan strategies, and podcasts.
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Lesson Plan
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Historical Treasure Chests

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After learning to distinguish between primary and secondary sources, students will examine four primary documents and address a set of questions for each.
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Unit Plan
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: The Revolutionary Americas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find relationships among primary and secondary sources of information that identify where information from different sources converges and where it differs.
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Primary and Secondary Accounts

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders will use letters from the Civil War to compare and contrast primary and secondary resources.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Civil War, a Nation Divided

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A wonderful resource using primary and secondary source materials to explore many facets of the Civil War from the war itself to its impact on the home front. Includes video and text downloads.
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Website
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Rosie the Riveter

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson features a series of student-centered grouping strategies and discussion forums that utilize secondary sources. Students will be exposed to various sources that provide both the historical narrative relating to women during
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Handout
Digital History

Digital History: Alger Hiss

For Students 9th - 10th
Secondary source information on the Trial of Alger Hiss.
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Unit Plan
Other

Pilgrim Hall Museum: William Bradford

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive biography of William Bradford includes links within the text to related primary and secondary sources. Also includes a timeline of Bradford's life. Some documents require Adobe Reader (PDF).
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Lesson Plan
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Student will use primary and secondary sources to gain a richer understanding of women's activism and how the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire led to changes in labor and safety regulations in America.
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Lesson Plan
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will explore the life of Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin by critically reading primary and secondary sources to determine her worldview, political beliefs, and core values.
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Website
Cornell University

Cornell University: Law School: Property Tax Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource gives an overview of adoption law with links to key primary and secondary sources.
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Parallel Histories: Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish and English text on Spanish interest, exploration and settlement of Texas. Includes primary and secondary source material.