1151 The Living Constitution Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This lesson, hosted by the Ohio Department of Education, is an excellent resource for teaching students that the US Constitution is a "living" or adaptable document. Students will examine the differing interpretations of the "protection clause" of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution as seen through three court cases: Plessy v.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: This resource is an online lesson plan provided by Ohio Department of Education that teaches students about the income tax system in the U.S. It is all inclusive and directly and exactly aligned to the content standard.... 1153 An Economic Mystery: What Happened to the Railroads? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: The National Council on Economic Education created the problem-based learning (inquiry) lesson, Economic Mystery: What Happened to the Railroads. An easy-to-read, clean home page effortlessly guides the teacher to practical, easy-to-use, printable, interactive lesson plans which directly correlate with the economic concepts for in state standards and indicators.... 1154 The Price We Pay for Health: U.S. and Canada Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: "The Price We Pay for Health: US and Canada" is a web-based lesson prepared by EconEdLink in which students compare the health care systems of the U.S. and Canada.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: In "Latinos in America", PBS offers some great websites links for exploring facts, stats, myths and generalizations about Latinos in the United States. It uses the US Census for some interesting printable statistics.... 1156 Sudan: Efforts to Avert Genocide in the Making Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 9 Professional Commentary: Sudan: Effort to Avert Genocide in the Making is a lesson from the PBS series NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. This is a great lesson to use to explain to students the history and complexity of the Darfur Genocide.... 1157 Sustainable Development and Africa's Wildlife Reserves (Globalization) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 9 Professional Commentary: National Geographics Lesson Plans, Sustainable Development and Africas Wildlife Reserves, discuss the challenges Africa faces as its citizens seek to raise their standard of living while balancing environmental conservation. These plans, designed to take roughly 4-5 hours, are aligned with the People in Societies standard focusing on transportation and communication.... 1158 A Nation of Immigrants (Why People Immigrate) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 10 Professional Commentary: A Nation of Immigrants by Population Connection (2006) addresses immigration from both an historical perspective and as a contemporary social issue. The lesson provides an overview of the history of immigration in the U.S., focusing on pushes and pulls as well as Americas reaction, and encourages students to address the current immigration debate and formulate a... 1159 Air Quality Lesson Plan Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 12 Professional Commentary: PBS sponsors the three-part lesson plan on air, water, and earth. This review focuses on the Air Quality lesson plan written primarily for a twelfth grade audience.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Social Studies Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 11 Professional Commentary: Accessed from the EconEdLink website provided by the National Council of Economic Education, this online lesson introduces students to the debt-to-income ratio and provides a glossary of vocabulary terms for the students to define and record. Although no standards are given, this lesson could be used to complete Benchmark E- Standard 13 which involves identifying the... |