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Teacher Feature: Ireland and Europe


Add cultural context to the celebration of St. Patrick's Day, and explore Europe's problems of earlier centuries and its present-day challenges and partnerships. Use the featured video clips, discussion guide, lesson plans, and activities.

Teacher Resources

Discussion Guide
Investigate the roots of Ireland's potato famine and the dangerous "fog." Then discover the rallying forces of sports and government in Europe today.
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Grade 3-5 Lesson Plan
See the Statue of Liberty through the eyes of immigrants — and U.S. citizens.
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Grade 6-8 Lesson Plan
Investigate life during the Irish Potato Famine using primary source documents.
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Grade 9-12 Lesson Plan
Examine the conflict in Northern Ireland through the eyes of its children.
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Student Activities

Coming to America
An image of European immigrants for use in presentations

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What Links These Countries?
A word search (with a hidden message) for 25 European Union countries
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Video Clips

Flight From Famine
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Overview of Europe
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London Fog
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Europe United
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Forced to Flee: Famine and Plague

Examine how a crop fungus and wide- spread famine brought Irish immigrants to settle in America and how the bubonic plague helped bring an end to feudalism in medieval Europe.
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