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 Communities |
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Communities-Scholastic
has some great resources for teaching students how to be
responsible citizens in their communities |
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Community Helpers-
Scholastic invites you to learn more about community helpers. The
best part is there are REAL photographs and you can have the
computer read the stories to you. Easy to navigate and very
informational! |
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Visit Community Places-
take a tour (animated or not- you choose) of places in a
community-a library, city hall and the park. Learn what goes
on in each place. FUN! |
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Your Neighborhood- Ben's
Guide to the community you live in. |
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Constitution Day |
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Constitution Lesson Plan
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Using very strong tea, we
painted paper to give it that aged look. To really get
that antiqued look, try baking the wet paper for a few
minutes. WATCH carefully!!!!!!! While our paper was
drying, the students worked in cooperative groups to come up
with their ideas for a classroom constitution. We voted
on the top ten rules and then wrote them on our tea-dyed
paper.
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Constitutional Informational Reading
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Core
Democratic Values |
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Be A Good Citizen WebQuest-
you
will be to study citizenship through the eyes of author Barbara
Cooney's story, Miss Rumphius, and through projects and
activities. Be ready to read, visit the web, and complete your
tasks to earn a Good Citizenship Award. |
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Books- here are some
great books to help you teach your students about the CDV. |
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Definitions- easy to
understand definitions for grades K-2. |
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Definitions from Michigan-more
complex definitions of the CDV. |
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Michigan Epic Core Democratic Values-Contains
interactive storybooks to help children really gain an
understanding of the CDV. |
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Muskegon Public Schools-
Site includes a PowerPoint that you can download;
definitions, activities, and additional web resources. |
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Geography and Map
Skills |
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Compass-Learn how to use a compass |
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Flags from All Countries- great site to find the colors
and symbols of flags from all countries |
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Geographic.Org- offers 70,000 pages of facts about
countries all over the world- history, population,
languages, customs, photographs, travel and more! |
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Make a Town- free software download that helps children
create a town of their own! |
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Map Game-answer questions
related to Globes and Map Projections, Building Map Skills,
and Reading Graphs and Charts |
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What Do Maps Show?-activities and lessons to learn more
about maps |
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~Interactive Activities~ |
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GeoNet- Brought to you by Houghton Mifflin, this games
challenges young minds with an assortment of geographical
questions. |
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GeoSPy- Brought to you by National Geographic,
your mission- to identify continents, countries, states and
more. |
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Interactive USA Geography Game- Can you locate the
states? Test your knowledge here! |
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Printables- maps, quizzes, fill ins and more from
Enchanted Learning. |
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Government and Presidents |
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~Interactive Games~ |
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Name The President- a 10
question trivia game brought to you by Primary Games |
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PBS-The Democracy Project-
Be a President for A Day, Learn How Government Works, or see
inside a voting booth. There is a lot of very child friendly
things on this site! |
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Me, Myself, and I |
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All About Me Theme-
lessons include self-esteem, where I live, families, feelings and
more |
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All About Me from KinderKorner-
songs, book ideas, poems, art activities, follow-up activities and
more! |
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All About Myself- What a
great site! Includes- cooking, fine motor activities, gross motor,
language development, literature, music, bulletin board ideas,
lesson plans, parent resources and more!! |
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 Michigan
Studies |
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Center For Michigan Studies-Michigan History Studies from MichiganEPIC |
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Enchanted Learning's Michigan Page-facts, maps and more |
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Facts About
Michigan- from 50States.com a great resource to learn more about
Michigan |
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Great Lakes-Where did they come from? This site provides a time-line and
an explanation. |
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Great
Lakes Fish- find out what fish are found in each of the Great Lakes. |
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Great Lakes Information
Network- a great resource to further your study of Michigan |
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Grosse Pointe Schools' Michigan Resource Page-a wonderful collection of
resources-organized and comprehensive |
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Michigan, My
Michigan- a great site that contains biographies, communities, first
people, timelines, and activities and lessons. |
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Michigan Studies-Michigan's Government site- full of ideas to help you
celebrate Michigan Week, May 21-27th. |
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MIKids- a Michigan.gov site created
just for kids! |
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Printables- ClassBrain's State Report Grab Bag- includes maps,
symbols, puzzles, mazes, clip art and study aides. |
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State Capital
Virtual Tour- take a virtual fieldtrip to the Capital! |
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Stuff About Michigan-all the info you need to teach your
students about Michigan! great for student researchers. |
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~Interactive
Activities~ |
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Kids Stuff brought to you by Michigan Historical Museums-
activities, poems, stories, historic documents and more |
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the States section too! |
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Michigan
Lighthouses |
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Michigan Lighthouses-mostly
photos, some text |
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Michigan
Lighthouse Keeper- an interactive story that tells about Michigan's
first female lighthouse keeper |
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Lighthouses of The
Great Lakes- beautiful pictures and great information |
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States |
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All 50 States- click on the state, read about the state and be
taken to that's official website. Great for young researchers. |
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Explore the 50 States- click on the state and learn more facts
about that state. |
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Fact Monster-choose your state and click for more facts about
that state. |
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Fun Facts- the US Census Bureau has a great site to learn some
interesting facts about each state. Check out their
Kid's Corner. |
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Land Atlas of the United States- this site provides a
variety of maps- relief, county, black and white... for each
state. |
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Learn
More About The 50 States-click on the state you are interested to
learn more! |
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NetState- a wonderful site that provides important information
about each state. |
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State Coloring Sheets- Crayola has some great print and learn
activities. |
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State
Fact Sheets- provides facts such as population, income,
education, employment, agriculture... |
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Stately Knowledge- provides just the facts in a very easy to
read format |
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USA WebQuests- How fun! You just won an all expensed paid
trip! Get ready to have some fun traveling the Internet to learn
more about the states. |
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~Interactive Games~ |
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Capitals- test your
knowledge- can you name all 50 state capitals? |
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Explore
the States -Your mission is to find all the pictures of the items on
the Treasure Hunt list below. All the pictures are in the Explore the
States stories and have something to do with FOOD. |
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GeoNet- Brought to you by
Houghton Mifflin, this games challenges young minds with an
assortment of geographical questions. |
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Interactive USA Geography Game-
Can you locate the states? Test your knowledge here! |
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Primary Games- Name that state-
an interactive game |
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Primary Games- Match The Symbols-
this is a concentration type game |
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States Web Games -Learn the locations, capitals, abbreviations
and over 500 important facts about our 50 states. |
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More sites coming soon! |
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