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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: u.s. Immigration Policy: What Should We Do?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through the use of videos, handouts, and other reading material, students will explore and evaluate the current debate on U.S. immigration policy.
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Choices: Teaching With the News Negotiating Climate Change: Paris 2015

For Students 9th - 10th
Multi-media learning module includes video, handouts and primary source material, from which students examine the need for world policy on climate change and identify key issues in the Paris climate change negotiations.
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Choices: Teaching With News: Resource Guide on the Terrorist Attacks in Paris

For Students 9th - 10th
Multi-media learning resource provides an annotated list of online sources that may be helpful for approaching some key aspects of the terrorist attacks in Paris.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: A Nuclear North Korea?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through the use of videos, this lesson explores the consequences for the United States and the world of North Korea's nuclear weapons.
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Choices: Teaching With the News: Castro's Legacy and the Future of Cuba

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through the use of handouts and online resources, students will explore the reaction to Fidel Castro's decision to resign as Cuba's president, examine the future of Cuba, and consider the international response to Castro's resignation...
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Considering Genocide in Sudan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
One-period lesson examines the issue of genocide using online handouts and news sources.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: The Costs of War

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module with scholars online video and readings with which to explore the human, economic, social, and political costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: The Gulf Oil Disaster

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Multi-media lesson plan includes a video, PowerPoint, and handouts from which students explore the issues raised by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and interpret political cartoons and the cartoonist's message.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Tools for the Options Role Play

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Options Role Play is a unique activity at the heart of the Choices Program's curriculum units. Learn about role play and the resources and tools for use with this activity.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Following the u.s. Presidential Election

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson designed to be completed over a course of multiple weeks. Students will read news sources to become familiar with national and international policy issues. They will track news coverage of the presidential campaigns and form their...
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Brown University: Choices Program: Teaching With the News

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Brown University's Choices Program provides a plethora of resources for teachers to use current and historical events to bring the real world into the classroom. A variety of topics covering global and foreign issues and policies.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Good Atoms or Bad Atoms? Iran and the Nuclear Issue

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning resource covers two days of instruction with scholarly material including video, readings, and graphic organizer handouts teaches students about the acquisition of nuclear arms, Iran's nuclear program and options for U.S....
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Choices: Teaching With the News: Unrest in Ukraine

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module provides access to video, politcal cartoons, readings, and news sources from which to explore the ongoing political protests in the Ukraine and consider international responses to the crisis.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Black Lives Matter: Continuing the Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module with multi-media resources, including interactive timeline, video, photos and articles, from which students can explore the current Black Lives Matter movement and make connections to activism of the past and the role of...
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Choices: Teaching With the News: The Conflict in Syria

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for students learning about the conflict in Syria and trying to understand the international response to the problem. Students work in small groups and independently to research and formulate answers to the given...
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: The Umbrella Movement: Protests in Hong Kong

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module uses multi-media sources to teach about the relationship between China and Hong Kong. Students use primary source material to analyze the recent protests in Hong Kong and explore the symbols and messages that protesters...
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: The Egyptian Revolution: An Interactive Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Collaborative lesson with multimedia resources on Egypt's Revolution in which students use relevant news sources, interactive timeline with video and graphic organizers to learn about events in Egypt over the past three years.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Graffiti in Egypt's Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson in which students use a short video to analyze the relevance of graffiti during the Egyptian revolution and assess the role of graffiti in political protest.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Fifty Years After the March on Washington

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive resources on the civil rights movement allows students to broaden their understanding through video and primary source material as they analyze the motivation and experience of students who joined the movement and consider...
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: u.s. Policy in the Middle East: Analyzing Political Cartoons

For Students 9th - 10th
Multi-media resources including video, PowerPoint, articles and maps from which students explore current issues in the Middle East and their relation to U.S. policy and interpret political cartoons on Middle East politics.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: The Iran Nuclear Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module uses mult-media resources to help students understand the role of the U.S. in the debate about the Iran nuclear deal and examine how political cartoons are used to express opinion.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Greece and the Eu: Navigating Debt and Austerity

For Students 9th - 10th
Multi-media resources including video, handouts, and readings for students learning about the effects of the 2008 financial crisis in Greece and the European Economic Eurozone.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: The Struggle to Define Free Speech: From Skokie to Paris

For Students 9th - 10th
Relevant resource on free speech in which students examine how different societies define freedom of expression. Through multi-media sources students look at historical sources as well as current controveries over free speech.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Isis: A New Threat

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module with comprehensive and relevant resources from which students explore the role of ISIS in the Middle East and U.S. response. Site inlcudes handouts, video, and primary source material for analysis and interpretation.