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PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: National Discussion and Debate Series: Health Care

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This detailed series of lesson plans is designed to provide students with background for examining whether health care is a fundamental right and if the government should act to provide it. The three to seven period lesson culminates in...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Impact of Political Debates in the Television Age

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This technology-based instructional activity encourages active engagement in the state elections process as part of a unit to prepare for debates to be held in the Fall of 2010. The instructional activity may also be adapted for use as a...
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US Department of State

Bureau of International Information Programs: History Outline: Sectionalism

For Students 9th - 10th
Article reviews several conditions of American society that sowed the seeds of civil war, particularly slavery and sectional conflict.