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Women's Suffrage: Yea or Nay

Heidler, Kathy

Lesson Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, PA State
19th Amendment, Suffrage, Voting, Women

Women's Suffrage Movement

Greene, Amanda; Rice, Gina; Swestyn, Ashley

Unit
3-5
English/Language Arts, History, Math
PA State
19th Amendment, Ballot, Music, Perspective, Propaganda, Suffrage, Women's Rights

Women of Courage: Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman

Resser, Megan

Lesson Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
NCSS, PA State
Compare , Contrast, Courage, Slavery, Sojourner, Truth, Tubman, Underground Railroad, Women

Women in Advertising: Past and Present

Tretinik, Shauna

Lesson Plan
3-5
History
PA State
Advertising, Compare, Contrast, Women

Why Should We Remember the Johnstown Flood?

Haines, Twyla

Lesson Plan
9-12
Cultural Studies, History, Science and Technology
Common Core
Dams, Flood, Great Flood, Industry, Inquiry, Johnstown, Legislative, Pennsylvania, Technology

Why is the Civil Rights Movement Taking So Long?

Sprague-Hicks, Kate

Lesson Plan
9-12
History
C3 Framework, NCSS
Act, African American , C3 , Civil Rights Movement, Economic, IDM, Inquiry, Oral History, Segregation

Why is the Civil Rights Movement Taking So Long?

Lee, Linda

Lesson Plan
9-12
History
Common Core, NCSS
Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights Movement, Education, Inquiry, Music, Nonviolence, Segregation, Song

Why is the Civil Rights Movement Taking So Long?

Kline, Stevie; Mason, Joyce

Lesson Plan
9-12
History
C3 Framework, NCSS
Act, African American, C3, Civil Rights Movement, Economic, IDM, Inquiry, Oral History, Segregation

Why is the Civil Rights Movement Taking So Long?

Curtis, Kelly

Lesson Plan
9-12
Cultural Studies, English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, NCSS
Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights Movement, Education, IDM, Inquiry, Nonviolence, Segregation

Why is the Civil Rights Movement Taking So Long?

Canning, Ann; Giardana, Greg; Hicks, David; Lee, John

Lesson Plan
9-12
History
C3 Framework, NCSS
Act, African American, Civil Rights, Economic, IDM, Inquiry, Movement, Oral History, Segregation

Who is the President?

Armstrong, Amanda

Lesson Plan
Pre K-2
Civics and Government, History
Common Core
Executive, Flag, Leader, President, United States

Where We Are In Place and Time: The Role of Primary Sources in an IB Unit

Sutton, Megan

PD Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner, ISTE
Agriculture, Discovery, Dorothea Lange, Drought, Dust Bowl, Farm, Home, Inquiry, Journey, Migration, Place, Story, Time

Where Was Columbus?

Cashell, Melissa; Thornton, Amy

Lesson Plan
6-8
History
PA State
Columbus, Maps, Native Americans, New World, North America, Voyage

When The People Could Fly

Peloquin-Burns, Denise

PD Plan
6-8
Arts and Music, English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner
Flight, Fly, Great Depression, Harlem, People, Roaring Twenties, Story

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

Thistle, Gay

Activity
Pre K-2
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Astronomer, Civil War, Lincoln, Poetry, Whitman

What's the Problem With Patents

Bergene, Julie

Lesson Plan
9-12
English/Language Arts, History, Science and Technology
Common Core
Bioethics, Ethics, Innovation, Inquiry, Laws, Medical, Patent, Research, Technology

What's In Your Pockets?

Adler, Gregory

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Analysis, Inquiry, Lincoln, Pockets, Stripling

What's a Patent, Mr. President?

Woodward, Beth

PD Plan
6-8
History, Math, Science and Technology
Common Core, ISTE
Industrial, Innovation, Patent, Revolution, Technology

What is the Truth About Pocahontas?

Storcks, Caitlin

Lesson Plan
3-5
History
VA State
Colonization, English, Native Americans, Pocahontas, Smith, Timeline

What is the Importance of Play in a Child's Early Educational Development

Zettl, Ann

PD Plan
3-5
History
21st Century Learner, NCLS
Book, Child, Development, Inquiry, Learn, Leisure, Play

Westward Expansion and the Impact on Native Americans

Kim, Ruth

Lesson Plan
3-5
History
NCSS
Chief Josepf, Custer, Native American, Nez Perce, Reservations, Sitting Bull, Westward Expansion

Wee and the Wright Brothers

Ferro, Rachel

Activity
Pre K-2
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Engineering, Flight, Technology, Wright Brothers

We Came Through Ellis Island: The Immigrant Adventures of Emma Markowitz

Bartley, Shannon

Activity
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Anti-Semitism, Ellis Island, Experience, Immigration, Judaism, Statue of Liberty, Sweatshops

Voyage of Columbus in His Own Words

Dunlap, Austi

Activity
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Columbus, Exploration, Journal, Nina , Pinta, Sailing, Santa Maria

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