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Now With Bill Moyers: Voting
A instructional activity for examining governmental influences in everyday life. Students analyze a report focusing on a democracy reform effort and predict the impact of suggested reforms. They then strategize on ways to overcome a...
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Now With Bill Moyers: Starting From Behind
A lesson plan that helps students examine the immigrant experience from an adolescent's point of view by exploring how the American dream motivates students to succeed.
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Pbs Teachers: Active Citizenship: Civil Rights Work of Bob Moses (Lesson Plan)
A lesson that compares and contrasts Bob Moses's fight for civil rights in the 1960s with his continuing efforts to gain educational opportunities for the poor and for minorities. The lesson includes instructions for directing young...
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Now With Bill Moyers: Whose God? (Lesson Plan in Religious Pluralism)
A lesson in analyzing historical documents on religious freedom and in assessing the historic impact of diverse religious groups on the United States. Students examine current separation-of-church-and-state issues and decide if diverse...
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Pbs Teachers: Global Women & Poverty (Lesson in Women's Economic Hardships)
A lesson that investigates how women in Senegal and Thailand are affected by poverty. Learners examine what causes some countries to prosper and others to suffer from poverty. They also create and present graphic organizers of action...
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Pbs Teachers: Death of Capt. Waskow (Lesson in the Journalism of Ernie Pyle)
A lesson plan that focuses on Ernie Pyle's famous column entitled "The Death of Captain Waskow," in which learners experience the human cost of war by examining a primary source document.
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Pbs: Message Control (Lesson Plan About Propaganda)
A lesson that guides learners through an examination of various forms of propaganda and how propaganda is used to manipulate public opinion. Includes research into the history of propagandistic communications.
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Pbs Teachers: In Search of Human Origins, Part I: Classroom Activity
This lesson plan allows students to identify and plot the locations of important African finds in the search for early human remains.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Ato Zteacherstuff: Dramatics With the Teaching of Poetry
This site from atozteacherstuff.com provides a lesson to help students develop an appreciation for poetry. This site will also will help create meaning from poetry.
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A to Z Teacher Stuff: Introducation to Poetry (Activity)
This online lesson plan combines music & poetry in a rich and fun way! The lesson is geared towards middle school, but could be modified for elementary.
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Secretes of the Ocean Realm: Creatures of Darkness
A PBS series site designed for educators to teach students the concempt of bioluminescence in marine life.
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Pbs Teachers: Written in Stone
A lesson that takes students through the process of examining tombstones as artifacts, identifying information that can be instrumental in investigating a community's past or an individual's genealogy. Students also make gravestone...
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The Virtual Vine: Be My Valentine Unit
Here you will find a cross-curricular Valentine's Day unit! The unit includes a booklist, project ideas, and Valentine's Day songs.
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Word Processing Activity: Rsi Checklist
This personal site provides a student activity that allows learners the opportunity to practice computer skills in creating a bulleted list. The activity also involves student's in completing research on repetitive stress injury to...
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Musical Math
This site includes 14 activities which explore how math and music are related. Great exercise opportunity for any student to sharpen their math and musical skills.
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Teachnet
This resource presents educator services including lesson plans, web links, interactive forums & mailing lists, and a weekly email newsletter.
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Fayette County Schools: Frankenstein & Electric Safety
Site contains a science-based literacy activity that explains how to use electricity in a safe manner. A worksheet is provided.
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Glencoe: The Women's Rights Movement
Internet based lesson for high school young scholars about the women's rights movement. Connected with a textbook series but could be used by anyone. Nice, self-contained activity.
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Pbs Teachers: Theory of the American Founding: Why Government? (Lesson Plan)
A lesson that considers how the American founders answered the question, What is government? Examines why, from the point of view of the founders, government is not only necessary, but good for human beings.
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Pbs News Hour: Reel Politics: How Hollywood Exercises Free Speech (Lesson Plan)
A lesson for exploring how films can be used as political tools and as vehicles for informing the public and promoting political agendas. Students research critically acclaimed political films throughout history and create a two-page...
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Pbs: The Fall of the Dollar (Lesson Plan)
A lesson that helps student understand how exchange rates are determined and how the value of a nation's currency is connected to its international trade. Students use an article from a time when the U.S. dollar was declining in relation...
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Pbs Teachers: Pope John Paul Ii's Complicated Legacy (Lesson Plan)
A lesson plan that directs students to online articles about the legacy of Pope John Paul II from which they are required to draw conclusions about his influence on the Catholic Church as well as on the world community.
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Pbs Teachers: Podcasting Sharing Your Ideas (Lesson Plan)
A lesson for exploring various types of programs available as podcasts. Requires listening to a podcast and recording key information and content from the podcast in a graphic organizer. Also requires producing an original podcast.
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Pbs Teachers: What Is the Role of Civil Disobedience Today? (Lesson Plan)
A lesson in which young scholars examine the history of civil disobedience and analyze whether it is a viable form of protest in today's world. They will explore quotations about law versus personal conviction in order to form a group...