Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students use an outline map of Florida and the Internet to identify major population centers and their demographic features.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students gather information on the physical and human characteristics of Alaska (geographic theme PLACE).They organize this information on a concept map to be transformed into a geopoem about Alaska.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: The students learn about significant people, events, vocabulary and ideas regarding the hardships settlers faced including how and why some new American colonies became successful.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: The global location of Alaska is established when the shape of a map of Alaska is identified as a silhouette of an elephant that moves to reach for contiguous (or nearby) geographic neighbors--and, indeed, to overlay a part of Canada.
Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Teachers can teach across the curriculum as students use imagination, math, reading, computer, geography, and social studies skills in this unique, innovative, and fun lesson where students pretend to be international spies!
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students hear a story about the atomic bombing of Japan and write an editorial about the event from the perspective of either a Japanese or an American.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students sharpen research skills by studying primary and secondary sources. When students know what kind of sources are available, they can find exciting stories, facts, and photographs which can make history come alive.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students create and perform radio broadcasts relating to events and situations that affected American society in World War II. They test their listening skills during these broadcasts. They practice by responding to tasks like those found on the FCAT.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: This is an introductory lesson on the Great Depression. Students discuss the Great Depression and the impact that it had on American Society and teens during that era.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: This is a map lesson. The class participates in a discussion and completes the class K-W-L chart. This allows for review of terminology, symbols, types of maps, etc. Students assist in instruction by drawing symbols they remember on the board.
The students begin the culminating activity in class which is to draw a map which will contain their home and a 3-street radius (or its equivalent) of where they live. Next they gather in groups to make oral observations regarding the maps which they have viewed.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: This lesson helps students understand the role that government plays in the lives of its citizens and how the government protects individual rights.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students conduct research on a famous American and create a tombstone for a class bulletin board.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students read a one-page biographical essay and write in paragraph form how an African American has demonstrated a certain character trait.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Every country has its own customs for the celebration of Christmas. This is a look at the customs used in Czecholslovakia and Mexico. Students may have customs from other countries to share.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: This activity is a fun way to report geographic information. The student illustrates a blank map to identify 5 Civil War battles.
Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Explore the history of tessellations; then use art and geometry to create an original tessellation.
Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Middle school students love cars. They will have the opportunity to analyze, compare and contrast tables/charts, based on given car data. While working in groups students will generate a list of desired car features and create their own table/charts.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students create 4 postcards by illustrating an island in the Caribbean that they will visit. Each postcard will focus on a different feature (historic landmark, mountains, people). The postcards incorporate photos/pictures with concepts and vocabulary.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Upon viewing a power point presentation or a video on China, and reading the lesson in the textbook, the students will show their understanding of how the Great Wall influenced Chinese culture by writing a 3 paragraph essay. Each paragraph will relate to the following aspects: trading, traveling and interaction with other countries and will show how these aspects of the Chinese culture were influenced by the Great Wall. Correct information is essential and if they fail to recall enough for their writing, they may work in groups and refer to the textbook and notes from discussion. A rubric will be discussed prior to instruction, so the student will know how to construct their writing and what they should include.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students debate the issue of -Women's Rights- and compare women of the past to the women of the present.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students begin the process of developing a service-learning project by defining their own community and the problems within it.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: The learner will determine who won the U.S. Presidential election of 1860. Students will find the information online, create a database, manipulate a spreadsheet and present findings.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students use play dough to create a relief map of Greece and through personal investigation and class discussion, draw conclusions about the impact of the geography of Greece on daily life and culture in Ancient Greece.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: The student discovers the basis for farming choices in the early colonies using group research and discussion.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students enjoy this introduction to the world of map projections, globes, aerial photographs, and satellite images. This lesson instructs the students on the advantages and disadvantages of each earthly representation.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: During a unit on the Renaissance, the class uses notes obtained through previous research to create a mobile that illustrates the contributions of a Renaissance woman and explains how these accomplishments influenced her society.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: This lesson focuses on one of the great achievements of the first woman ruler known to history. Students create Hatshepsut's Temples and Obelisks using a variety of materials.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students create a map to locate places on campus and share the map with another student. The other students use the map to locate certain places and validate for accuracy via a checklist. The parents use the completed map at open house.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students discover through this simulated activity that resources are unequally distributed throughout the world and that regions use resources differently.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students learn how to read timelines and make timelines of their own lives by putting special dates of their choice in chronological order.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students write expository essays using the FCAT writing prompt format and the FCAT scoring method and rubric after reading ACROSS FIVE APRILS and a study of the Gettysburg Address
Subject(s): Language Arts, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students will research and explore the development of household inventions.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: The Five Themes of Geography is an organized way to study any area of the world. It is the adopted method of the National Geographic Society. This is a beginning of the year cooperative group activity where students embark in discovery of basic facts about an assigned continent and are asked to organize their information into categories. The Five Themes model is taught and students reshuffle their information appropriately and make a display and class presentation of their findings.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: This activity introduces students to geographic thinking, setting the stage for the creation of a map showing distance, direction, location and symbols from their residences to school.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students research changes the Army Corps made in Everglades, focus on the human impact on the environment, design graphic organizers, summary statements, develop a Florida map of the Everglades region and give a presentation about what they learned.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: During a study of Eleanor Roosevelt, the class examines -The United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights- in order to gain an understanding of the document and to create a list of rights for the classroom.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students explore the advantages and disadvantages of credit card use before they fall into the credit trap!
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students use peer support to reflect on their spending and how it reflects their income and their values.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students practice listening skills while getting an overview of the events of WWII. Emphasis is placed on events mentioned in the novel, [Jacob Have I Loved]. Writing an FCAT style short response on one of the focal events assesses writing skills.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: If we believe in the ideal that “All men are created equal”, why is our currency used to honor only old, white men? The students select a person they think should be honored on our currency and write a letter outlining the reasons for their choice.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: The purpose of this lesson is for students to understand the conflicts and problems associated with the founding of colonies and the clash of technologically and culturally different civilizations which occurred in this colonization process.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students are presented with musical selections that set the tone for investigating the mystery behind fact and opinion.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students compare the costs and benefits of interest involved with borrowing and depositing at banks.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students understand the nature of slavery, the impact of slavery on African-Americans, and how slavery intensified the conflict between the North and South that eventually led to a major cause of the Civil War.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students explore the contributions of women to mathematics by writing a research paper, presenting a summary to their peers, and sharing an activity with their peers.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: This lesson offers students the opportunity to conduct research on the Internet about mathematicians and to synthesize that information into a timeline.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students improve their writing skills by writing directions from school to their houses to give to a friend. The directions must be sequential and include direction words (north, south, east, west), landmarks and specific street names.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students learn the important leaders in different cultures by researching coinage. Through
this process, they also recognize the cultural universality on coinage and currency.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Monsters are considered scary creatures, but this lesson will take the fear out of graphing. Student creates and draws conclusions from data found in a Monster graph.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students create a timeline of ten events in chronological order about a scientist to include his/her accomplishments. Students practice by completing a personal timeline in which they follow verbal instructions.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students use a multimedia encyclopedia to answer teacher-generated questions and then in pairs design their own scavenger hunt questions.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students learn about ancient world civilizations and the mythologies they created to explain natural phenomena, as well as the writers and poets who wrote about the mythologies.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students learn to use map scale, read physical maps, analyze landforms and determine land use.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students use the Internet to conduct research on the Lewis and Clark journals and work cooperatively in planning and delivering a presentation.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students will respond to pictures, providing observations and drawing conclusions about the people they see. Afterwards, they will revisit their judgments, identify a specific source for each one, and examine common influences on perceptions.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students discover the differences between the Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance through group interaction and discussion.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: This poetry writing activity is designed to introduce students to the Holocaust as a violation of personal, political, and economic rights. It is a component of a larger unit on American constitutional government.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students visualize and create a map to outline scenes from the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. The student understands the importance of organizing information when making maps and giving directions.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students evaluate the responsibilities of history textbooks in reporting events related to minorities.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: The learners will research the three branches of government and look at the effect that the separation of powers has on the presidency.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students produce an overlay map of South America to show the relationships between cities (population), landforms and economies.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: What caused the Civil War? The students will explore the events that caused tension between the North and South leading to the Civil War.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students enjoy learning about the Lewis and Clark Trail as they trace the path from the beginning to the end using modern technology. After studying the path, students create a better route through the Rocky Mountains using a topographical CD Rom.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: The Christmas tree is popular in most homes in the United States. We decorate our living and family rooms and outside in the yard, with trees. Just how did they become part of the American Christmas?
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Why did the Sioux Indians live in tents covered with animal skins, the Cherokee live in wooden homes, and the Navajo live in mud houses? This activity is a way for students to investigate why several Indian tribes developed different ways of life based on geography. (This lesson must be done after the students have had instruction in the physical regions of the U.S.)
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: This activity is designed to introduce students to geographic thinking by creating mental maps from their residences to school and then recreating their maps on paper showing, direction, symbols, location and distance.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students learn how to evaluate a primary source and use it to interpret John White's diary entry regarding the Lost Colony of Roanoke.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Simulating a congressional debate, students discover the issues involving monopolies and big business during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: The student will know what a timeline is, create a timeline with 4 important events of their life, to include 2 national events and 2 world events. The student will then write an essay about their life including the four events.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: The students compare and contrast the daily life of Native Americans to The American Cowboy in the 1800's.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: This lesson is for use during the weeks before the Christmas break. This will be great for middle school students. It is a comparison of the other religious holidays that are celebrated around this same time of year.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: By discussing the effects of advertisements, students learn to improve shopping and spending habits.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: ESE students identify the evolution of the civil rights movement from slavery to present day and then use information about major events to create a timeline.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: The lesson entails the introduction on how to construct and organize a chronological timeline.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students explore the debate between free-speech and patriotism using a northern renaissance scenario.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: In this lesson students write an essay about the govermental issues that surrounded Andrew Jackson's presidency. They discuss how editorial cartoons are made and create an editorial cartoon of their own about a president.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: This activity is designed to help students become familiar with the cultural aspects of their chosen country through creating a travel brochure and an expression booklet. (NETS for Students 1.2 and 5.1)
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: This project engages students in actively researching a given U.S. state. It allows students to use different forms of technology to assist them in their quest for information.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: In small groups, students research, create, and present a scale representation of the county in which they live.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students use graphic organizers and create timelines to make an historical connection to the 1960s as a prereading activity for The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students process a variety of information on the pyramids at Giza and create an opinion essay which uses the information gathered as well as student feedback.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Working in groups, students determine the characteristics of a good loan. They also make practical application of what they learn.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: After learning about the roles of citizens in selecting a mayor to run a city, students work in groups to research candidates’ viewpoints on the improvement of Parks and Recreation and then select a candidate to support for Mayor.
Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students obtain a firm grasp on the importance of law through web-based resources, magazines, newspapers and collaboration within student cooperative groups, class discussion and teacher discussion/explanations.
Subject(s): Social Studies, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8) Description: Students read a selection concerning Santa Claus and the orgin of the Jolly Old Elf in the United States.They will also create their own version of a new and modern Santa Claus that will remain in the American culture.
