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"Identity development begins with children's awareness that they are separate and unique individuals. During childhood, self-awareness grows and changes." This is interesting to read and reread as needed to understand development.

Lesson plans for teaching tolerance. Includes: Because I Had a Turban, Small Steps: A Tolerance Program, Belief In Action, Identity Posters and others.

This site offers lots of links to help with psychology, individual development, puzzles and more.

Has many lessons and is helpful in determining which standards the lessons will address

This site has units and lesson plans on: Lewis and Clark preparing for the trip, politics, mapping, women, animals, language, trade and property, plants. There is a section on exploring and using primary and secondary sources.

"There is no single objective way to describe why an artifact is significant to a culture. Objects are important to different people for different reasons. To make this idea personal, students will be invited to bring to class important cultural artifacts from their own lives. Each object will be "interpreted" by a student anthropologist who will make hypotheses regarding the importance of this object. The student anthropologist will also determine what this artifact says about the culture of the owner. The owner of the artifact will get a chance to tell their actual story."

This is a resource geared toward parents. It could be something given to parents hardcopy, suggested reading for parents via the internet, and/or used by the teacher. There are suggestions for books, magazines, activities, etc. as additional resources.

Kristiana, I liked the ideas that this site has for parents, as well as teachers. Very informative and is filled with wonderful ways to guide our children.

Facing History and Ourselves delivers classroom strategies, resources and lessons that inspire young people to take responsibility for their world.

Linking history to moral choices today

Great pictures of the earth that have been taken both in the past and present. This website also provides articles about different parts of the world.

I am going to bring this site in for our Science teacher to use as she is talking about the earth to 1st graders-thanks. Great pictures on there.

This website offers information on cultural diversity along with activities and ideas to help teach students about cultural diversity.

Find out about famous people - with the featured video clips, lesson plans, discussion guide, and activities.

It is important to show students how women in history have had an impact in their lives today. This site is a great resource for students and teachers.

I am so happy this is one to share. Women history is very important because it seems like most students think of Men in history. This is another great resource for us-I think I may share this with some current teachers now to see if they can use it.

For my topic I was studying the Biomes. I found some writing from a Native American about how the land affected their lives.

Under One Roof: Legal & Illegal One child was brought her an illegal immigrant, the other child was born here. A look at a "mixed status" family.

Fun website suggesting science fair experiments including psychology experiements.

Lesson plans dealing with relationship issues for middle school students.

Biographies of people in history