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2015-16 Featured Books
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The Virginia Council on Economic Education 2015-2016 Featured Books: Tia Isa Wants a Car by Meg Medina, Helen’s Big World: Life of Helen Keller by Doreen Rappaport, and Uncle Jed’s Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell with discussion questions and lesson plans. These books are used to teach about savings,savings goals, opportunity cost, productive resources, and human capital.

Subject:
Financial Literacy
Mathematics
Social Studies
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Author:
JMU Center for Economic Education
Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank
Virginia Council on Economics in Education
Date Added:
03/29/2024
Age of Exploration
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[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the exploration of the Americas. Site includes primary source documents, videos, essays, and lesson plans to help students research the exploration of the new land.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Module
Provider:
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Date Added:
08/07/2023
EDSITEment: Declare the Causes
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Offers lesson plans that guide students to understanding the structure of the Declaration of Independence. Throughout the course of the lesson, students will be working on writing their own declaration of grievances relative to issues in their own life.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Provider Set:
EDSITEment!
Date Added:
08/07/2023
Financial Fables from the Fed: Oscar Ostrich Faces the Future
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Meet Oscar Ostrich. In this fable, Oscar Ostrich is taught to think about his future needs and set financial goals to become more confident about his financial future. The story is centered on the moral: "If you set and reach financial goals, your needs will be met in the future."

Subject:
21st Century Skills
Economics
Financial Literacy
Personal Management
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Date Added:
03/30/2022
Food Chains, What Link Are We?
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Prior to this lesson learners engage in the Arcadia Earth app’s Keep the Great Lakes GREAT section to build their understanding of the Great Lakes and its importance to all animals that call this area home, including humans. Next learners explore food chains with a hands-on activity, Linking the Chain. Students then synthesize what they know about the Great Lakes, food chains and how human behaviors can affect both.

Estimated time required: 1 class period.

Technology required for this lesson: Tablet or Smartphone.

Subject:
Biology
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Verizon
Provider Set:
Verizon Innovative Learning HQ - Lessons and Apps
Author:
Belle Isle Conservancy
Date Added:
09/20/2023
International Monetary Fund: All About Money [PDF]
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A valuable resource for educators who are teaching their students about money. A series of lesson plans cover everything from the different forms of currency over time, to trade and economic growth and exchange. Activities and games are included.

Subject:
Financial Literacy
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Date Added:
08/07/2023
Lesson 3: British Surnames Derived from Occupations or Professions
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Another common type of medieval byname derived from how a man spent his time. Every farming village had a blacksmith to forge iron tools, a miller to grind wheat, a carpenter to craft furniture, and many other specialists.

Subject:
Arts
History
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Provider Set:
EDSITEment!
Date Added:
11/19/2020
Let Freedom Ring: The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Students listen to a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., view photographs of the March on Washington, and study King's use of imagery and allusion in his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Subject:
English Language Arts
History
Literature
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Provider Set:
EDSITEment!
Date Added:
11/19/2020
Meet the Great Lakes
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In this lesson, students will be introduced to physical and geographic features of the Great Lakes, including the size, area, amount of water, and locations of each, as well as the significance of the Great Lakes to many aspects of life for the region in which they are located.

Subject:
Earth and Space Science
Geography
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Great Lakes Now
Date Added:
12/20/2021
National September 11 Memorial & Museum: 9/11 Fact Sheet [PDF]
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The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has partnered with the New York City Department of Education and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education to develop a robust set of 9/11 lessons for K-12 classrooms. Each lesson is tied to the Common Core Standards. Grounded in our collections, they are written for use throughout the school year and across subjects, including Social Studies, History, English Language Arts, and Art.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Date Added:
08/07/2023
National September 11 Memorial & Museum: What is a Hero
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The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has partnered with the New York City Department of Education and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education to develop a robust set of 9/11 lessons for K-12 classrooms. Each lesson is tied to the Common Core Standards. Grounded in our collections, they are written for use throughout the school year and across subjects, including Social Studies, History, English Language Arts, and Art.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Date Added:
08/07/2023
PBS KIDS for Parents: Oops! A Game for Dealing with Embarrassment
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Explore feelings of embarrassment and discuss ways to cope with those feelings. Match halves of patterned paper in the shape of pants and hang them on a "clothesline."

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
PBS
Provider Set:
PBS KIDS for Parents
Date Added:
08/28/2023
Planning.org: Kids and Community
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Use this site to explore how you create communities, how you live in them, and how you change them. This site also has information on the career of city planning, and activities on city planning.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Module
Date Added:
08/07/2023