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Spicing Up the Curriculum: Adding Engaging Activities with Multiple Ability Assessment   Spicing Up the Curriculum Packet Download Engaging Activity Tasks Packet includes all assignment sheets, directions and teacher's notes.  This  The "Spicing Up the Curriculum" booklet is used with students of World History, US History, Government and Economics. English teachers and others have also successfully used the booklet.  The engaging activities contained within provide multiple ability assessment to content pieces chosen by the teacher or student.  Selections from  of the textbook, primary source documents and current events are examples of common content pieces used. The activities contained in the booklet can be used with groups, pairs, individual work and homework assignments.   Spicing Up the Curriculum "Connection" assignment sheet in editable (word) format. Teachers can modify "connections" to desired concepts from the California State Standards.     Sample Content pieces   Economics and World History Contemporary Issues - see page one for correlations to California State Standards Basic Economic Concepts - Living on a Dollar per Day Child Labor - India Environment - Fueled by Hypocrisy International Finance - Nigeria International Trade - Sugar Trade Barriers Gender and Minority Rights - Grameen Bank Global Warming - UK World Health - AIDS Crisis, Botswana Note: the resource cards (cards with content) are included twice in each of the above files.  Tip: it makes it less confusing for students if each set of resource cards is paper-clipped together.  There should only be one task card from Spicing Up, and one set of discussion questions, so that students will plan, discuss and share information as a whole group.