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Ball in Play
Students conduct weekly research on three to five current events. As a ball is tossed around the room, the student holding the ball presents to the class the who, what, where, when, why, and how details of their selected current event.
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Pack Your Bags: Learning about refugees
Students participate in a role playing activity where they become refugees from their home. They participate in a discussion about the reality of survival while in hiding or with only the few things that they could gather and take with...
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Positive Futures Fair
Students, in groups, research an issue they feel is significant in today's world. They present and justify specific actions for the audience to take that would help to better the issue of public concern.
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Current Issues/Lesson Plan 1: What Matters To You
Students examine the process of the Canadian parliamentary system. They identify current events, read newspaper articles, and write letters to the Editor and Editorial section.
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Current Events
Students work in groups and are responsible for monitoring the daily news. They write 15 multiple choice questions that deal with world, national and local news. The quizzes are used to launch discussions on the highlighted events.
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Violence
Students create a drama based on the theme 'violence'. Students then find newspaper articles that depict violence and share them with the class.
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Voice Your Opinion!
Students work in groups discussing current events. They look through relevant newspapers for evidence to support their own ideas or opinions about the issue.
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The Timeline of a Lifetime
Students create a timeline which includes four important events from their own life, two national events and two world events. They write an essay highlighting the four events included on the timeline.
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Organization of Nations Project
Students research the priorities and needs of an assigned country. They come together and debate current events from the point of view of the country they are representing.
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Holocaust Lesson Plan: Timeline
Students explore the chronology of the Holocaust, make connections between Holocaust events and contemporaneous world events and acquire a frame of reference for comparing their reading with actual events during the time of the Holocaust.
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What We Read About
Students examine current events and create an artistic image that portrays the feelings brought forth by these readings.
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American Justice: The Texas Cheerleader Plot
Students watch a video about one woman who planned to commit murder because of a cheerleading scandal.
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Treading Lightly on Flag-Waving
Young scholars explore the impact of world events on past Olympics as a springboard for understanding the cultural, political, and social climate surrounding the 2002 Winter Olympics after the events of September 11, 2001.
Library of Congress
Loc: Herblock's History of Political Cartoons
Outstanding online exhibition featuring the works of political cartoonist, Herb Block,the creator of the phrase "McCarthyism." Spanning seventy years, this exhibit of over one hundred of his works shows why this Pulitzer Prize winner was...
Library of Congress
Loc: Bill Mauldin
This online testimonial praises the works of Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who passed away in 2003. After reading his biography, view this fantastic collection of some of his greatest works.
Library of Congress
Loc: Edmund Valtman
This Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist was a specialist of the Cold war era having actually lived in the USSR at the time. View some of his most famous cartoons in this online exhibit.
PBS
Pbs: Need to Know on Pbs
Important current events are discussed in blogs and special reports. Reports, including video and audio, on current health, economic, environment, health, security, and culture are available.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Internet News
Dating back to 1996, you can catch up on the news in mathematics. This internet resource is weekly updated to keep you informed.
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra for Students and Teachers
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer offers specialized news resources for students and teachers. Content includes background information for the top stories of the week, full multimedia packages (video, audio, graphics, and text) which explore...
PBS
Pbs: News Hour Extra
Current US and world news, as well as news in the areas of science, economics, health, and the arts. Also features editorials and essays written by students around the world on events in the news.
PBS
Pbs: Now
PBS explores topics in the news and provides further information, commentary, videos, polls, and more.
National Cable Satellite Corporation
National Cable Satellite Corporation: C Span
C-SPAN reports the latest news and covers recent issues and events in U.S. and world public affairs. Content includes live TV and radio, focused series, and more.
Other
Pi: A Search Engine for Politics and Policy
At this site you can search through thousands of political sites and news for research. Also available are news headlines and top political news. Awesome research site.
Other
Finding Dulcinea: On This Day: Beyond the Headlines
Each day a famous person or event from history is presented, along with articles with more information, biographical data, and the historical context in which the person lived or the event took place.