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Read Works: A Child in Hiding
[Free Registration/Login Required] A 5th grader interviews her grandfather about his experiences hiding from Nazis in a farmhouse after escaping his home in Paris. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works: Ancient Greece the Ancient Greeks
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the ancient Greeks. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Tokyo Broadcasting System Television: The World Heritage
Japanese content. A companion site for the TV program, Sekaiisan, or The World Heritage. Episodes focus on cultural and "natural" heritage and are similar in feel to a National Geographic special. You can't watch the episode online but...
USA Today
Usa Today: The Middle East Project [Pdf]
In this project, students will learn about and provide a concise description of a country in the Middle East. They will then present information about their country to the class. Lesson plan includes standards and weekly procedures....
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Livius: Aeschines
Discussion of the Greek politician and orator Aeschines. Includes biographical information as well as his contributions to the politics of the time.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The United Nations Lesson Plan
A broad overview of the history, structure, and accomplishments of the United Nations. Students review an overview of the institution and develop brief presentations in a group activity following a set of discussion questions.
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Pbs Learning Media: Who's Being Left Behind?: Wide Angle: Time for School
The U.N. Millennium Development Goals call for universal primary education by 2015. But around the world, minorities are being left behind.
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Pbs Learning Media: Pen Pals: Wide Angle: Time for School
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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Pbs Learning Media: Problems Facing Internally Displaced Persons Worldwide
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
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: Innovative Approaches to Healthcare in Mozambique and Beyond
Students learn about limited health resources in Mozambique and innovative approaches taken there and in other countries to combat public health problems. They will learn about the importance of healthcare for women and children. The...
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Pbs Learning Media: Extreme Global Makeover: Wide Angle: Lesson Plan
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
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
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
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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Pbs Learning Media: Malala Devotes Second Life to Girls' Rights: Pbs News Hour
"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
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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Pbs Learning Media: Girls Speak Out: Wide Angle: Lesson Plan
This instructional activity follows girls in India and Benin to evaluate their access to education, a basic human right.
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Pbs Learning Media: The First Lady's Blog
Follow First Lady Michelle Obama as she travels to Jordan as part of the international initiative, Let Girls Learn.
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Pbs Learning Media: Let Girls Learn: The White House
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
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: World History: Unit: Beginnings 600 Bce
This virtual course from Khan Academy is a series of video tutorials and practice links that follow the world's prehistory through 600 BCE.
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Khan Academy: Focus on Baghdad: The Golden Age of Islam
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of Baghdad during the Golden Age of Islam.
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Khan Academy: World History: 1750 1900 Enlightenment and Revolution
We have none from this URL but there are some among embedded videos, although not all. For example, we have the two on Haitian Revolution and some on Napoleon. But I couldn't find those on imperialism.