Theme Teaching

Country Current Events
Students select a country to follow the entire school year.
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Current Event Awareness
The goal of this lesson is to focus student attention on current issues in the news of special importance to them.
Submitted by: Janice Clarke Reiter [email protected]

Election Activities
Get your students involved in the elections with these activities are designed for 6th grade.
Submitted by: Michael Kandel [email protected]

Explorers Contracts
Here is a collection of contracts that will produce great work!
Contract #1
Contract #2
Contract #3
Contract #4

The Iditarod
A great event to incorporate into your classroom.
Submitted by: Paulette Noble pnoble@email-removed

Major Indians in America Contract
A contract that will help your students learn about the various Indian tribes.

Mini Society
An economic experience to last a lifetime.
Submitted by: Judy Haynes im4ewes@email-removed

News Reports
Get students involved in watching and reporting on various news stories. Divide your students into groups of four. Rotate groups weekly so that each group will be responsible for the NEWS every 7 weeks. Each student in the groups is responsible to report on 2 items from the local, provincial (state), national or international news on Friday morning. There must be some written items on each of the news items. Students must also be prepared to answer questions from the class.
Submitted by: Phyllis & Menno Froese mfroese@email-removed

Westward Expansion
Here is a great project idea, complete with guidelines.
Submitted by: Marcia Motley m2teach@email-removed

Time for Kids
This is not a lesson, however many lessons could be generated from this site and its links. http://www.timeforkids.com/
Submitted by: Paulette Romano ibmmitzi@email-removed