The purpose of this lesson is to show students how to break up land division and survey their own property.  Students will gain a knowledge of how surveyor's come about dictating property lines.  The lesson gives a greater understanding of Law of Cosines and Heron's Formula. Image Reference:Lars H. Rohwedder, Sarregouset - Own work from source files Image:OgaPeninsulaAkiJpLandsat.jpg (GFDL) and Image:Orthographic Projection Japan.jpg (GFDL and CC-By-SA).

Share some great Art practices using Google Workspace with your students through this amazing post from Control Alt Achieve.

Share some great Music practices using Google Workspace with your students through this amazing post from Control Alt Achieve.

Helping our students access materials and content to achieve in the classroom is very important; learn about some accessibility features from Google in this blog post from Control Alt Achieve.

Students learn how to use Google Drive and all about its features for future use.

By examining primary sources, including songs, newspapers, interviews, and photographs of migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression, students create a scrapbook from the point of view of a migrant worker, providing evidence of the colloquial speech used by the migrants and the issues affecting their lives. Using Voices from the Dust Bowl, 1940-1941 and Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives, students select photographs and use the sound recordings of voices of the migrant workers to create captions, letters, and/or songs based on these primary sources. This lesson can be used in connection with a unit on the Great Depression, and specifically on The Grapes of Wrath.

Many resources from PBS learning for teachers, students, and background information. Students will examine the techniques of persuasion and logical fallacies, investigate debates, learn of the history of presidential debates, and analyze the impact of word count.

In this lesson plan, educators will teach their students the rules and positions of handball in a 70 minute lesson.

Primary sources are a main focus throughout Documents of Freedom. Here we offer many of the most important primary sources from American history that include annotations to help you understand the purposes of each document.

Students will obtain information about oil extraction in Utah by performing investigations about porosity and hydraulic fracturing.

Students will learn about Harriet Beecher Stowe’s activist writing, particularly her best-known work, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. After watching a video synopsis of her life, they will examine the cover page of sheet music for a play based on Uncle Tom’s Cabin and will read excerpts from the book that illustrate the power of her writing. To conclude the lesson, students will design a new book jacket for Uncle Tom’s Cabin that will highlight the importance of both the author and the novel.

Share some great Google Drawing practices with your students through this amazing post from Control Alt Achieve.

Students will design an energy efficient heating and cooling system for a home, using the principles of energy exchange.

Students will develop solutions related to well drilling of helium, its conservation and utilization.

In this lesson, students will learn about Thoreau’s iconoclastic ideas and about the unusual steps he took to live out his beliefs. In addition to watching a short video, they will examine the original 1854 book cover for Walden and read excerpts from Thoreau’s most famous works. To conclude the lesson, they will connect Thoreau’s unusual perspective and daring actions to their lives as young 21st-century Americans.

In this economics lesson, students will create an assembly line to learn how specialization increases productivity.

In this economics lesson, students analyze shifts in supply and demand in the auto market and related markets.

In economics lesson, students will research Henry Ford’s innovations to find strategies that improve productivity., includes slides, reading, and activity.

In this lesson, students examine one of six key amendments to the Constitution while considering their historical context. Students create timelines for each amendment that are later combined to fully evaluate and interpret how the Constitution has evolved within its historical context.

Rhonda ‘Honey’ Duvall is an inspirational advocate, R&B singer, powwow dancer, and Native American storyteller. She is from the Navajo Nation (Diné) of the Tangle Clan and grew up splitting her time between the Navajo Blue Gap reservation in Arizona and Salt Lake City, Utah where she currently lives and records her music.