http://www.teachbabel.com This feed contains recent lesson plans shared by users at Babel. Browse the catalog, then share some lesson plans of your own! http://www.teachbabel.com/viewarticle/17/63.html Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:07:22 EST http://www.teachbabel.com/viewarticle/17/63.html The Three Fifth's Compromise is a simple enough topic. It's also a perfect opportunity to incorporate numeracy and statistics in the Social Studies classroom. In this lesson, you students will calculate representation in the House of Representatives, chart data on a bar graph, and use that graph to think critically about the Three Fifth's Compromise. http://www.teachbabel.com/viewarticle/16/63.html Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:16:17 EST http://www.teachbabel.com/viewarticle/16/63.html The 2000 Presidential Election highlighted a peculiar American institution - the Electoral College. In this lesson, students examine its functions and simulate alternate outcomes to the election to evaluate proposed reforms.