CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
Fannie Lou Hamer Lesson Plan: Write and Deliver a Persuasive Speech
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-12, students explore BrainPOP resources to learn about the civil rights activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, who spoke up for black voting rights in the South. Using...
Building Thirteen Colonies Lesson Plan: Design a Sortify Game
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 4-12, students explore BrainPOP resources to learn how and why the 13 colonies were founded, including the role of mercantilism and the relationship between t...
Race to Ratify Lesson Plan: Race to Ratify Game
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-12, students play a game called Race to Ratify that brings them back in time to 1787 and into the heated national debate between the Federalists and Anti-Fe...
Veterans Day Lesson Plan: Make a Tribute Movie
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, students explore BrainPOP features and resources about Veterans Day, including who the day honors, what veterans they do and how we can celebrate them. T...
Mission US Lesson Plan: For Crown or Colony?
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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-12, centers around Mission US: For Crown or Colony?, a game in which students take on the role of an apprentice to a newspaper printer in Boston in 1770--a tim...
Mummies Lesson Plan: Make a Tomato Mummy
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, students explore BrainPOP resources to learn about Mummies and Ancient Egyptian mummification practices. Then they’ll make their own mummified Pharaoh’s ...
Map Projections Lesson Plan: Peel-a-Globe
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, students watch the BrainPOP movie Map Projections and explore the other features in this topic to learn all about the difficulty of creating flat maps fr...
Make-a-Map Lesson Plan: Life Cycle
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Students use Make-a-Map to recreate the featured life cycle....
String Instruments Lesson Plan: Create Your Own String Instrument
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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, invites students to explore BrainPOP resources to learn about string instruments. They’ll find out about the different types of string instruments, how wave...
World Cup Lesson Plan: Create a Promo
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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, invites students to explore BrainPOP resources to learn about the World Cup--the world’s biggest sporting event. They’ll find out how countries qualify to c...
