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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Fixing the Health Care System

For Students 9th - 10th
This Online News Hour page provides an overview of President Barrack Obama's interests in health care reform. Links are also provided to five health care related stories in addition to class resources suitable for grades 7-12.
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Other

Survival Tips on Robert's Rules of Order

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides tips and guides to following Robert's Rules of Order in a practical setting. Content addresses many of the issues that come to pass during committee meetings and summarizes how Robert's Rules of Order addresses each...
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Productive Meetings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will identify the steps for preparing and facilitating a productive team meeting. The content easily transfers to various types of group discussions. SL.11-12.1b Group Rules
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Curated OER

National Park Service: America's Space Program Exploring a New Frontier

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site includes a lesson for teachers to use when teaching about America's space program. Also included is the history of the space program, maps, readings, images of the space program, and benefits that resulted from space research.
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American Psychological Association

Apa: Interesting Careers in Psychology

For Students 9th - 10th
Focus on non-academic careers for scientific psychologists. Provides links to several scientific psychologists who explain how they secured a job in a nontraditional setting outside the "lab" or "university setting."
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CNN

Cnn: George W. Bush: The Inauguration of the 43rd President

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the 43rd President of the United States through his inaugural celebration. This entertaining website narrates the events of George W. Bush's inauguration as well as providing learning games, interesting historical facts, and the...
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Country Studies US

Country Studies: Kennedy and the New Frontier

For Students 9th - 10th
This overview of President John F. Kennedy suggests that he set a liberal tone with his agenda rather than the more hands-on approach of his successor, Lyndon Johnson.
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University of Groningen

American History: Essays: Andrew Jackson and the Bankwar: Partisan or Not?

For Students 9th - 10th
President Andrew Jackson was concerned about the powers of the Second Bank from the beginning, and suspected there was a hidden political agenda, which Nicholas Biddle, head of the bank, denied.
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Other

Disinfopedia: Propaganda Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Center for Media & Democracy provides a brief discussion of propaganda techniques followed by a lengthy list of various specific kinds of propaganda. Also includes "Recommended Books" and "External links" sections....
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Other

Disinfopedia: Bandwagon

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Center for Media & Democracy provides a five paragraph explanation of the term with multiple examples, some of them taken from current events. This is an article from Disinfopedia, "An encyclopedia of people,...
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Reel Politics: How Hollywood Exercises Free Speech (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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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Other

Le Monde Diplomatique (Francaise Version)

For Students 9th - 10th
Le Monde diplomatique, a weekly national newspaper, challenges the tenets of globalization from a European perspective and is highly critical of the way footloose capital dictates national agendas and distorts the market in favour of the...
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Other

Le Monde Diplomatique (Francaise Version)

For Students 9th - 10th
Le Monde diplomatique, a weekly national newspaper, challenges the tenets of globalization from a European perspective and is highly critical of the way footloose capital dictates national agendas and distorts the market in favour of the...
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Other

Morino Institute: Promise of a New Communications Age

For Students 9th - 10th
This speech outlines the nature of the communications revolution, establishes a framework for the most important challenges that must be addressed and proposes an Agenda for Action for individuals and groups to take advantage of the...
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Other

Kevin Baker: The Populists

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay on the history of the Populist party including reasons for its formation, notable people within the party, its political agenda, and its struggle to achieve country-wide support.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: It's My Life: Make a Weekly Planner

For Students 4th - 8th
How-to's for using a weekly planner to keep track of homework, assignments, test dates, and other school priorities, with instructions for how to make a planner if you don't want to purchase one. Includes a downloadable blank weekly...
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Reuters: Summary of Obama's Healthcare Proposal [Feb. 2010]

For Students 9th - 10th
This article outlines changes proposed to Obama's healthcare bill by the White House, changes that attempt to address the different views of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. [Date of article: 02/22/2010]
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Other

Nbcc: National Breast Cancer Coalition

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a political action group homepage. It has links to political agenda information, and news releases that NBCC has given out.
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Curated OER

John F. Kennedy

For Students 9th - 10th
This overview of President John F. Kennedy suggests that he set a liberal tone with his agenda rather than the more hands-on approach of his successor, Lyndon Johnson.
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Curated OER

Lyndon Johnson

For Students 9th - 10th
Lyndon B. Johnson ascended to the presidency after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. With a year to go until the election of 1964, LBJ appropriated Kennedy's "New Frontier" and transformed this agenda into his "Great Society."
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World Economic Forum: What the World's Waste Does to People in Poorer Countries

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the serious global waste crisis, the problem of plastic waste, the issue of wealthy countries exporting their trash to less-developed ones, informal waste management practices, and electronic waste dumps. The article ends with...

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