1131 Regions of the U.S.A Geographic Perspective Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This resource, Regions of the United States: A Geographic Perspective, was prepared by The National Geographic Society. The activity asks students to analyze a region of the United States within its spatial, historical, cultural, political, and physical contexts.... 1132 The People, They Are A Changin' Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: The People, They Are a Changin is a Daily Lesson Plan presented by The New York Times. It provides an article with corresponding activities to address changing demographics in the United States.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: The lesson, Immigration, was created by the Opper Project, an Ohio State University Teaching History Institute focusing on using editorial cartoons to teach history. The lesson uses editorial cartoons to address the causes and effects of immigration; it particularly focus on how immigrants have been received, i.e.... 1134 German Immigrants: Their Contributions to the Upper Midwest Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students will explore how cultures and traditions today have been influenced by the immigration of primarily Germans to the "upper Midwest" in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. This lesson is hosted by the Library of Congress.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: Blues Geography enables teachers to use Blues music to teach students about regional characteristics of the US. The lesson is designed to accompany the PBS series The Blues.... 1136 Land Use in Lowell: Mapping Industrial Change Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 9 Professional Commentary: This site is operated by the National Park Service. It contains a lesson on the development of the Mills at Lowell Massachusetts but the material is more closely related to the eight grade content of the Ohio Academic Content Standards.... 1137 Labor Unions and Working Conditions: United We Stand Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: The lesson, United We Stand, was created for the Library of Congress The Learning Page and provides numerous primary sources on American labor conditions and the rise of labor organizations at the turn of the twentieth century. As students examine pictures, personal accounts, newspaper clippings and songs, they are encouraged to use these newly gained understandings... 1138 Who's Right? Who's Right?: Determining Point of View Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: The New York State Library offers a lesson plan entitled Whose Rights? Whos Right?... 1139 Teaching with documents: Political Cartoons Illustrating Progessivism and the Election of 1912 Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: Providing political cartoons from the Progressive Era, this resource from the National Archives contains satires of Roosevelt's reversal of his anti-third term promise and his assumption of leadership of the Progressive Party. This website also provides students with the context necessary for making sense of political cartoons.... 1140 Africa: Eco Challenges Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 9 Professional Commentary: Africa: Eco Challenges is from PBS and National Geographic. This lesson will help students better understand some of the more pressing issues that face Africa today.... |