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Classroom Resources

Overview

In this activity, students will be able to identify Benjamin Franklin and his inventions. Students experiment with static electricity and create a "magic picture".  

Subject Area

Grade(s)

2

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Detailed Info

Resource Provider

Smithsonian

License Type

CUSTOM

Evaluated and Aligned By

Owner (Author)

mgsaboyd

Overview

This is a collection of photographs describing the changing role of women during World War II. These changing roles also changed stereotypes of gender roles and allowed women to participate in other activities.  

Subject Area

Grade(s)

4

CR Resource Type

Informational Material

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Detailed Info

Resource Provider

Smithsonian

License Type

CUSTOM

Evaluated and Aligned By

Owner (Author)

mgsaboyd

Overview

In this activity, students investigate social, economic, and geographic influences that led to westward expansion in the United States prior to the Civil War. Students will also identify technologies and conflicts that occurred from expansion and analyze whether manifest destiny was truly achieved. Click on the download PDF or DOC button for additional resources such as song lyrics, maps, photographs, and newspaper articles.

Subject Area

Grade(s)

5

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Detailed Info

Resource Provider

Other

Resource Provider other

College Career & Civic Life (C3)

License Type

CUSTOM

Evaluated and Aligned By

Owner (Author)

mgsaboyd

Aligned Standards

Content Standard(s)

Overview

In this lesson plan, students investigate the experiences of immigrants in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After reviewing evidence, they develop an argument to decide if the American Dream came true for the immigrants who came to New York. Click the Download PDF or DOC to access the following additional resources:

  • Several photographs of immigrants at home and work.
  • Emma Lazarus' poem, The New Colossus.
  • A Scholastic video: Virtual Field trip to Ellis Island.
  • A link to an interactive website exploring Ellis Island.
  • A link to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum where students can construct an interactive immigrant character.

Subject Area

Grade(s)

6

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Detailed Info

Resource Provider

College Career & Civic Life (C3)

License Type

Custom

Evaluated and Aligned By

Owner (Author)

mgsaboyd

Aligned Standards

Content Standard(s)

Associated Section

Overview

In this lesson plan, students investigate students' rights and the First Amendment. Click on the download PDF or DOC button to access additional resources including the following story from the Washington Post about students expelled for posting rap videos to their social media sites.

  • Elahe Izadi, news story describing a group of students suspended for rap videos they created, “Lawsuit: Black Teens Unfairly Expelled from Ohio High School after Making Rap Music Videos”, Washington Post, September 3, 2014

After reading the story, students analyze the actions of both the students and the school.

Subject Area

Grade(s)

12

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Detailed Info

Resource Provider

Other

Resource Provider other

College Career & Civic Life (C3)

License Type

Custom

Evaluated and Aligned By

Owner (Author)

mgsaboyd

Aligned Standards

Content Standard(s)

Associated Section

Overview

In this learning activity, students will research economic and social changes and expansion in the United States after World War II. Students will identify programs that had an economic impact on society such as the G.I. Bill of Rights, suburbanization, and immigration. Click on the Download PDF or DOC button for additional resources including charts, graphs, photographs, and maps.

Subject Area

Grade(s)

6

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Detailed Info

Resource Provider

Other

Resource Provider other

College Career & Civic Life (C3)

License Type

CUSTOM

Evaluated and Aligned By

Owner (Author)

mgsaboyd

Overview

In this lesson plan, students evaluate the human costs of consumer products (specifically sugar). Students are asked to consider any inhumane means of producing consumer goods today. Click on Download PDF or DOC button for access to additional resources including child labor charts, maps, photos, and descriptions of work on sugar plantations.

Subject Area

Grade(s)

5

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Detailed Info

Resource Provider

Other

Resource Provider other

College Career & Civic Life (C3)

License Type

CUSTOM

Evaluated and Aligned By

Owner (Author)

mgsaboyd

Overview

In this learning activity, students research the history of American currency. Students discuss objects that were traded or bartered before the use of coins or paper money. Students take a closer look at the symbols in the Great Seal on paper money. Students design their own currency.

Subject Area

Grade(s)

K, 1

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Detailed Info

Resource Provider

Smithsonian

License Type

Custom

Aligned Standards

Associated Section

Overview

In this activity, students analyze a Martin Luther King, Jr. comic book for further understanding of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the civil rights movement, and King's impact on the civil rights movement. The resource contains links to the comic book and further reading about Martin Luther King, Jr.

Subject Area

Grade(s)

4

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Detailed Info

Resource Provider

Smithsonian

License Type

CUSTOM

Evaluated and Aligned By

Owner (Author)

mgsaboyd

Overview

In this learning activity, students explore the significance of the Statue of Liberty. Students gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of the Statue of Liberty after visiting an interactive website, viewing lithographs, and visiting the Ellis Island website. Links to these websites are included.  

Subject Area

Grade(s)

3

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Detailed Info

Resource Provider

Smithsonian

License Type

CUSTOM

Evaluated and Aligned By

Owner (Author)

mgsaboyd
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