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Pbs Learning Media: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
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Primary
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Act Up and the Aids Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore AIDS activism during the 1980s.
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Article
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Pbs Learning Media: Pen Pals: Wide Angle: Time for School

For Students 9th - 10th
Pen pals from Long Island, NY and Nairobi, Kenya exchange video messages about school, family and their hopes for the future.
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Lesson Plan
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Pbs Learning Media: Problems Facing Internally Displaced Persons Worldwide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use video segments from the PBS series Women, War & Peace, as well as information from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the United Nations to learn more about internally displaced populations.
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Pbs Learning Media: Making a Difference in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using segments from the PBS program: Wide Angle, this high school lesson explores the history and complexity of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and examines the roles individuals and organizations can play in promoting understanding and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Extreme Global Makeover: Wide Angle: Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Modernization is an important issue in many places, including China and India. Students explore how it may impact such areas as society, politics, the economy, and the environment.
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Pbs Learning Media: Nanavi, a Girl From Benin, West Africa

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students use a chart to track character development and write a statement to express the ways in which a particular young girl from West Africa has changed over a three year time span.
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Pbs Learning Media: Youth and Education in Afghanistan: Pulitzer Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the daily struggle faced by many Afghan students seeking an education, and the danger faced by teachers and schools working to provide these children with an experience many Americans take for granted.
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Pbs Learning Media: Companion Curriculum: Girl Rising

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Girl Rising tells the stories of nine girls from nine different countries and the power education has to change their lives. The accompanying curriculum provides teachers with a unique opportunity to educate students about the issues...
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Article
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Pbs Learning Media: Malala Devotes Second Life to Girls' Rights: Pbs News Hour

For Students 9th - 10th
"Today you can see that I'm alive," said Malala Yousafzai in her first interview since surviving a Taliban attack that left her with a bullet lodged in her skull last October. "This is a second life," she continued, "And I want to serve....
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Pbs Learning Media: Malala Yousafzai Champions Education: Pbs News Hour

For Students 9th - 10th
This Daily News Story from PBS NewsHour Extra was created on October 14th, 2013 After surviving an attack on her life, Malala has recovered and has dedicated herself to the goal that every child everywhere will receive an education.
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Lesson Plan
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Pbs Learning Media: Girls Speak Out: Wide Angle: Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity follows girls in India and Benin to evaluate their access to education, a basic human right.
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Article
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Pbs Learning Media: The First Lady's Blog

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow First Lady Michelle Obama as she travels to Jordan as part of the international initiative, Let Girls Learn.
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Article
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Pbs Learning Media: Let Girls Learn: The White House

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about Michelle Obama's global initiative Let Girls Learn, a government-wide effort helping to educate girls everywhere.
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Pbs Learning Media: Why Is It Important to Educate Girls?: Pbs News Hour

For Teachers 9th - 10th
When girls are allowed to go to school, they have a significant impact on their family and community. Students learn and think critically about the variety of reasons why it is in everyone's best interest to ensure that all girls, across...
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Pbs Learning Media: Michelle Obama Visits First Lady of Japan, Akie Abe

For Students 9th - 10th
In an event at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo, First Lady Michelle Obama met with Akie Abe, the First Lady of Japan, to launch the international Let Girls Learn initiative.