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Pbs News Hour Extra: When Will the Recession End
PBS's NewsHour Extra provides an Economic, Government, and History lesson concerning the four economic indicators impact on a country. Includes two detailed activities. The first exercise covers the history of the U.S. economy from...
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News Hour Extra: Trade Wars the Candidates Take a Stand
A lesson plan that looks at the 2004 election in the United States and the country's economic issues. Which candidate do you think has the best economic policy?
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Pbs Online News Hour: Extra: 2009 H1 N1 Flu: The Next Pandemic? (Lesson Plan)
This lesson plan focuses on viruses, particularly the Swine Flu, and allows students opportunities to simulate how viruses spread and the results.
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Pbs Online News Hour: What Are the Conditions for Victory in Iraq? Lesson
This is a question that we all think about. Explore it with your students and try to figure out what a postmodern victory looks like in Iraq in an age of asymmetrical warefare. (2003)
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Pbs News Hour: To Report or Not to Report
What kind of principles do reporters adhere to when deciding what to report? This lesson takes a closer look at a piece written to the New York Times regarding the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein's Regime in Iraq.
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Structure of Congress and the Legislative Process Lesson
This lesson explores the structure of Congress and the legislative process. There is an introduction, a research activity, an assessment, and a role play activity.
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Pbs News Hour Extra: You Don't Need a Seismograph to Study Earthquakes
Three part lesson plan will provide students with information about earthquakes and how to predict them using various Web sites. Activities include historical background on major earthquakes, investigating mechanical waves, and...
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Pbs News Hour Extra: Choosing an Automobile, Understanding Alternative Fuels
This lesson plan encourages learners to look at alternative methods of fuel and explore the various impacts each has on the environment.
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Pbs News Hour Extra: Understanding Your Water: From Source to Tap and Back Again
In this instructional activity students will learn about water treatment and what happens to water when it goes down a toilet and drains into sewers. Through further investigation students will understand the relationship between water...
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Pbs News Hour Extra: Preparing for the Ongoing Impact of Tsunamis and Earthquakes
Using geologist's tools and the lessons from the historic Japan earthquake of 2011, students predict when a disaster will hit and the need for disaster preparedness in communities.
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Pbs: Are the World's Weather and Climate Changing?
What's going on with our weather? Learn about it in this lesson plan that examines the climate and weather patterns in the world today. It has a weather quiz and guidelines that help the students understand weather changes occurring...
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Pbs News Hour: Immigration Reform: The Issue From Different Pts of View
This four to five hour lesson plan will allow young scholars to understand immigration reform from different points of view and provide the necessary background to develop an informed position. Downloadable materials are available.
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Pbs News Hour: What Is a "Dirty" Bomb?
Explores the concept of a "dirty" bomb. Provides sources and articles to help students understand what will happen if a dirty bomb explodes in the United States. The activity also provides multiple extension activities which provide the...
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Pbs News Hour Extra: Lesson Plan: Obama's First 100 Days
Learners will compare and contrast the First 100 Days of Franklin Roosevelt with those of Barack Obama.
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Pbs News Hour Extra: Drill, Baby, Drill?
In this instructional activity, for grades 7-12, students will examine President Obama's proposed policy on offshore drilling, the various positions on offshore oil exploration and participate in a mock-policy committee to develop...
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Pbs News Hour Extra: Strategizing the 2010 Midterm Elections
Students will have a chance to examine their own political beliefs and then compare with the political philosophies of the six major U.S. political parties and the Tea Party movement. To make the lesson even more compelling, students...
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Pbs News Hour: Afghanistan: People, Places, & Politics Lesson Plan
A lesson plan for educators teaching the country of Afghanistan to senior high students. Valuable links to resources, study guide, correlation to national standards. Includes a PowerPoint and.pdf files.
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Pbs News Hour: The Role of American Embassies
This lesson plan examines the United States embassies and what they do. This particular plan looks at a current NewsHour extra article about the U.S. opening an embassy in Baghdad.
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Pbs Online News Hour Extra: Millennium Development Goals
Examine slum conditions around the world and analyze how the UN Millennium Development Goals are working with help from this excellent lesson plan.
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Pbs News Hour Extra: Lesson Plan, Future of Haiti
In this lesson plan, designed for grades 7 -12, the students will explain the social and economic achievements of Haiti, articulate the horrific consequences of the earthquake, describe the ways the economy responded to catastrophe and...
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Pbs Online News Hour: Analyzing Free and Fair Elections ( Nigeria 2007)
From the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer a lesson plan that analyzes the concept of "Free and Fair Elections" using U.S. State Department and student generated standards to examine Nigeria's 2007 elections. Provides step by step...
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Pbs News Hour Extra: Controlling Nuclear Weapons
For this lesson plan, students examine the impact of weapons of mass destruction, e.g., the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in World War II. They look at nuclear proliferation and treaties, and debate the pros and cons of nuclear weapons.
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Pbs Online News Hour Extra: Sharia: Critical Analysis
From the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer a lesson that asks students to identify fundamental Islamic beliefs and law using a 2003 case study from Nigeria. Also provides the opportunity to compare and contrast the sharia with the American...
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Pbs News Hour: u.s. Policy in Somalia
From the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer a instructional activity in which students identify and analyze U.S. policy in Somalia through asking what the most effective means to bring peace and stability would be. Provides step by step...