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What's a Patent, Mr. President?

Woodward, Beth

PD Plan
6-8
History, Math, Science and Technology
Common Core, ISTE
Industrial, Innovation, Patent, Revolution, Technology

What's In Your Pockets?

Adler, Gregory

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Analysis, Inquiry, Lincoln, Pockets, Stripling

What's New About Fake News? Exploring Library of Congress Collections to Develop Media Literacy Webinar

Manfra, Meghan; TPS Eastern Region

External link
Activity
Any Grade
Civics and Government, Cultural Studies, History
Fake News, Literacy, Social media, Webinar

What's the Problem With Patents

Bergene, Julie

Lesson Plan
9-12
English/Language Arts, History, Science and Technology
Common Core
Bioethics, Ethics, Innovation, Inquiry, Laws, Medical, Patent, Research, Technology

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

Thistle, Gay

Activity
Pre K-2
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Astronomer, Civil War, Lincoln, Poetry, Whitman

When The People Could Fly

Peloquin-Burns, Denise

PD Plan
6-8
Arts and Music, English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner
Flight, Fly, Great Depression, Harlem, People, Roaring Twenties, Story

Where People Live Historical Inquiry

Ellison, Jessica

PD Plan
3-5
Civics and Government, Geography, History
AASL, ISTE
Analyze, Historical Inquiry, Immigration

Where Was Columbus?

Cashell, Melissa; Thornton, Amy

Lesson Plan
6-8
History
PA State
Columbus, Maps, Native Americans, New World, North America, Voyage

Where We Are In Place and Time: The Role of Primary Sources in an IB Unit

Sutton, Megan

PD Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner, ISTE
Agriculture, Discovery, Dorothea Lange, Drought, Dust Bowl, Farm, Home, Inquiry, Journey, Migration, Place, Story, Time

Which is More Important Individual Privacy or Public Safety?

Kevin Leisten

C3 Inquiry
6-8
Civics and Government, History
C3 Framework
Japanese Internment, Privacy, World War II, WWII

Who is the President?

Armstrong, Amanda

Lesson Plan
Pre K-2
Civics and Government, History
Common Core
Executive, Flag, Leader, President, United States

Why Did New York and the Nation Need the Erie Canal?

Ziemer, Heidi

C3 Inquiry
3-5
Geography, History
American Revolution, Erie Canal, Federal Government, Transportation, Westward Movement

Why is the Civil Rights Movement Taking So Long?

Bamford, Heidi

Lesson Plan
9-12
Civics and Government, History, Science and Technology
C3
Civil Rights, IDM, Oral History, Video

Why is the Civil Rights Movement Taking So Long?

Canning, Ann; Giardana, Greg; Hicks, David; Lee, John

Lesson Plan
9-12
History
C3 Framework, NCSS
Act, African American, Civil Rights, Economic, IDM, Inquiry, Movement, Oral History, Segregation

Why is the Civil Rights Movement Taking So Long?

Curtis, Kelly

Lesson Plan
9-12
Cultural Studies, English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, NCSS
Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights Movement, Education, IDM, Inquiry, Nonviolence, Segregation

Why is the Civil Rights Movement Taking So Long?

Kline, Stevie; Mason, Joyce

Lesson Plan
9-12
History
C3 Framework, NCSS
Act, African American, C3, Civil Rights Movement, Economic, IDM, Inquiry, Oral History, Segregation

Why is the Civil Rights Movement Taking So Long?

Lee, Linda

Lesson Plan
9-12
History
Common Core, NCSS
Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights Movement, Education, Inquiry, Music, Nonviolence, Segregation, Song

Why is the Civil Rights Movement Taking So Long?

Sprague-Hicks, Kate

Lesson Plan
9-12
History
C3 Framework, NCSS
Act, African American , C3 , Civil Rights Movement, Economic, IDM, Inquiry, Oral History, Segregation

Why Should We Remember the Johnstown Flood?

Haines, Twyla

Lesson Plan
9-12
Cultural Studies, History, Science and Technology
Common Core
Dams, Flood, Great Flood, Industry, Inquiry, Johnstown, Legislative, Pennsylvania, Technology

Woman's Suffrage

Valentino, Maranda

Unit
9-12
Cultural Studies, History
PA State
19th Amendment, Civil Disobedience, Convention, Declaration of Sentiments, Hunger Strike, Seneca Falls, Stanton, Vote, Woman's Suffrage

Women in Advertising: Past and Present

Tretinik, Shauna

Lesson Plan
3-5
History
PA State
Advertising, Compare, Contrast, Women

Women of Courage: Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman

Resser, Megan

Lesson Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
NCSS, PA State
Compare , Contrast, Courage, Slavery, Sojourner, Truth, Tubman, Underground Railroad, Women

Women's Suffrage

Bowlen, Krystal; Isgan, Juliann

Unit
6-8
History
PA State
19th Amendment, Equality, Paul, Suffragette, Suffragist, Voting, Women's Suffrage

Women's Suffrage Movement

Greene, Amanda; Rice, Gina; Swestyn, Ashley

Unit
3-5
English/Language Arts, History, Math
PA State
19th Amendment, Ballot, Music, Perspective, Propaganda, Suffrage, Women's Rights

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