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Lesson on King Josiah, minus the activities 

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Summarizing self-reflection sheet. Originally designed to be paired with this lesson about abolitionsists: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/strategic-reading-writing-summarizing-1017.html?tab=3#tabs

Constitution Day lesson plans for K-12 teachers from the Center for Civic Education. These lessons are available for free and many are downloadable as pdfs.

Lesson Plans and Resources for teaching the constitution

There's lots of information on the Web about fractals, but most of it is either just pretty pictures or very high-level mathematics. So this fractals site is for kids, to help them understand what the weird pictures are all about - that it's math - and that it's fun! Teachers: Every lesson has a print version for classroom use.

Norman Shapiro wrote to the geometry newsgroups one day offering to share materials from his Geometry Through Art workshops. We immediately expressed an interest, ever ready to seize an opportunity to bring more teaching materials to the Forum and to build our site with contributions direct from the classroom. As we looked over his handouts and the artwork they can generate, we realized this would be a good moment to experiment with taking someone's lessons and turning them into Web pages that would be useful to others. You will find here a wonderful assortment of lesson ideas, facilitation suggestions, lists of materials needed, and handouts for you to photocopy. Mr. Shapiro focuses on the student as investigator, learning through doing, and using perception to stimulate the motivation for more developed concepts and language. Art is one of the intrinsically interesting applications of geometry and these pages point to a wonderful way in to this topic for children and adults alike.

Indian House School Programs A replica of a house which survived the 1704 attack on Deerfield, activities include: Fireplace Cookery (seasonal), Colonial Life, Native American Life (in a bark wigwam, weather permitting), Textiles, Taverns, Historic Lights, Dame School (a 17th-18th C. school lesson), Early Farming, Stenciling (seasonal), and Neighbors and About Town (two different tours of the center of town). The Indian House Children's Museum is also open to the public during the summer and early fall.

Indian House School Programs A replica of a house which survived the 1704 attack on Deerfield, activities include: Fireplace Cookery (seasonal), Colonial Life, Native American Life (in a bark wigwam, weather permitting), Textiles, Taverns, Historic Lights, Dame School (a 17th-18th C. school lesson), Early Farming, Stenciling (seasonal), and Neighbors and About Town (two different tours of the center of town). The Indian House Children's Museum is also open to the public during the summer and early fall.

Lesson plan and resources for teaching researching and using internet resources.

Various geometry math lesson ideas

Topics include: Slavery and African Americans in Antebellum America, Causes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Literature of the Civil War, Reconstruction and After in Art and Culture

"Innovative thinker John Seely Brown, known for his ideas for merging digital culture and education, shares lessons educators can learn from surfers, gamers, and artists on how passion and competitive hunger can drive intrinsic motivation."

"In cooperative learning, students work together, think together and plan together using a variety of group structures designed along an instructional path. This dynamic learning model breaks with the dusty forms of frontal teaching that often create classrooms of "lonesome togetherness" -- students who may sit together but live worlds apart. Cooperative learning creates what Daniel Goleman calls "cognitive empathy," a mind-to-mind sense of how another person's thinking works. The better we understand others, the better we know them -- pointing toward (among other virtues) greater trust, appreciation and generosity. "

5-part lesson developing fluency through poetry. Designed for grades 3-5.

Personal Spelling Dictionary-table with words and space for notes about how students remember to spell them

Website for Ken Burns's film "The Address". Includes a lesson guide and classroom tips for memorizing the Address.