In this activity, students will talk about their hobbies and what they like to do in their free time. Students will learn how to describe their hobbies and what they like or do not like to do.  During the warm-up, a fun game will help students to review vocabulary and the main activity will provide many speaking opportunities. Interpretive pre and post activities help students expand their language competency.

What can we learn about characters from their thoughts and their actions?

This inquiry from the Washington State History Museum focuses on the literacy skill of using details from the text to support observations and inferences about characters. To practice this skill, students read Baseball Saved Us, a fictional story about an incarcerated Japanese American family during World War II. Students also learn about the real-life experiences of incarcerated Japanese Americans via objects from the Washington State History Museum’s collection, and other historical resources.

Each of the four lessons in this module is designed to take about 45 minutes to teach, and to be integrated
with your ELA or literacy block.

Watch the companion video, REMEMBRANCE: A Legacy of Executive Order 9066, on YouTube: https://youtu.be/s4-GfWDEukE

How does non-violent direct action function as a response to injustice?

This inquiry from the Washington State Historical Society focuses on Japanese American incarceration during World War II, and asks students to analyze Japanese Americans’ responses to this injustice through the lens of non-violent direct action. It consists of five lessons, and a suggested summative assessment, as well as possible extensions. Each lesson is intended to take between 45 and 75 minutes, and some may need to be divided over multiple class sessions.

The intent of this curriculum is not only to help students learn about what incarceration was, and why it
happened, but also to help them understand the varied responses of Japanese Americans to incarceration. They will arrive at these new understandings by practicing the skills of history including artifact analysis, identifying patterns, and developing informed empathy for historical figures. Images of and links to primary sources are provided throughout.

Watch the companion video, REMEMBRANCE: A Legacy of Executive Order 9066, on YouTube: https://youtu.be/s4-GfWDEukE

In this activity, the students will discuss their hobbies and what they like to do in their free time. They will practice asking and answering questions related to popular activities.Students will split into groups and move around interacting with the other group. 

In this visualization, users click to drop a raindrop anywhere in the contiguous United States and watch where it ends up. The visualization teaches users about the relationship between precipitation and freshwater in the US.

This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, explores the basic characteristics of rocks and minerals, the types of rocks, the rock cycle, and the specimens found in the polar regions. Find lessons that allow students to observe rock and mineral specimens, perform classification exercises, and read to develop their content knowledge.

In this issue of the free online magazine Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, learn about the tools and technologies scientists use to study the land, ice, ocean, atmosphere, and living creatures of the polar regions. Students can also learn about the day-to-day life of a scientist working at the South Pole and plan their own research expedition.

This series of activities is designed to introduce students to the role of sediments and sedimentary rocks in the global carbon cycle. Students learn how stable carbon isotopes can be used to reconstruct ancient sedimentary environments. Students will make some simple calculations, formulate hypotheses, and think about the implications of their results. The activity includes an optional demonstration of the density separation of a sediment sample into a light, organic fraction and a heavier, mineral fraction.

This site on the U.S. Senate webpage includes information, primary sources, political cartoons and other images related to the suffragist movement and the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, examines how elementary teachers can introduce the Arctic and Antarctica and use science, geography, literacy, and technology to help students compare and contrast these two dramatically different areas as well as their own home.