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"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. "

Students will compare and contrast design elements in neoclassical and modern architecture, using the National Gallery of Art's West and East Buildings. Then they will design a geometric pattern using Pei's polygons. Last, they will consider the role of geometry in planning and designing buildings and cities by creating their own city plan using a variety of lines and polygons.

Lesson Plans and Resources for teaching the constitution

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

Math-Kitecture has a number of activities, including "Floor Plan your Classroom," which offer engaging ways for students to study mathematics by doing real-life architecture.

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.

Discusses city plan and hydro-engineering.

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

Plans and resources for using the film "Gettysburg" to teach about the Civil War.

About one-third of Patriot soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill were African Americans (according to The Battle of Bunker Hill on the EDSITEment resource American Memory). Census data also reveal that there were slaves and free Blacks living in the North in 1790 and later years. What were the experiences of African-American individuals in the North in the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War?

This has great lesson plans on the Roman Empire and the renaissance

great resource for images and even lesson plans.