Tag Archives: history/social science

In this lesson, students will learn about the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Students will listen to a brief biography, view photographs of the March on Washington, view a portion of King’s „I Have a Dream” speech delivered in August 1963, and discuss what King’s words mean to them.

When visiting the recommended website in this lesson, students learn about the Underground Railroad and „walk in the shoes” of an escaping slave. Using the picture book Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, students create a problems/solutions/events chart to help them understand the relationships between Clara’s problems and how she solves them. Similar to Clara’s […]

How do we establish and maintain a colony on Mars? As the 10th grade capstone experience, students will create a Mars society that incorporates learning from core curricular areas. The project will culminate in a recruitment fair where students will convince stakeholders to join their colony.

In this third lesson of the four part series, students briefly examine the 2002 famine in Africa and the factors that contributed to its severity, with a special focus on Malawi.