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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Learning Media Presents Pov Watch Club

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
PBS LearningMedia Presents POV Watch Club. Free to educators each month. Let's watch and learn together! Join the Watch Club: Since February 2021 PBS has teamed up with POV to bring a documentary from television's longest-running...
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PBS

Pbs: Cet: Africans in America: Teacher's Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Go directly to the teacher's guide developed to supplement the PBS documentary "Africans in America," which chronicles the history of slavery in the United States. Find lessons, many of which provide links to related primary sources,...
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Kqed Radio: The Iran Project

For Students 9th - 10th
The Iran Project examines the changes in modern Iran since 1981. This project includes a one-hour public radio documentary, "The Struggle for Iran," as well as a detailed overview of the country. Click "About Iran" to learn about this...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Lori A. Flores, "The Fight for Farm Workers' Rights Is Still on the Table"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the plight of farm workers. It discusses a 1960 documentary hosted by Edward R. Murrow called "Harvest of Shame" and the book "Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Women in the White House

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will consider Women in the White House. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson, students explore the role and impact of recent First Ladies through...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Was Right About the Wright Brothers?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this unit students will explore the lives of the Wright brothers. The end result will be a student-made documentary highlighting the factors that allowed the Wright brothers to succeed at manned flight when others before them had failed.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Tre, Maison, Dasan: Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Tre Maison Dasan is an intimate portrait of three boys growing up in Rhode Island, each with a parent in prison. Each boy is very different, possessing different attributes and surrounded by different environments. Told directly through...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Almost Sunrise: Lesson Plan: Moral Injury and the Moral Ambiguities of War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a term many students may know. This lesson invites student to gain a deeper understanding of moral injury and develop greater empathy for the challenges returning veterans face. Using video...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Almost Sunrise: Lesson Plan Clips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a term many students may know. This activity invites student to gain a deeper understanding of moral injury and develop greater empathy for the challenges returning veterans face. Using five video...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Up Heartbreak Hill: Factors in a Successful College Experience Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson from POV, students will watch four video clips that provide glimpses into the lives of two high school seniors who live in New Mexico on the Navajo reservation. They will then analyze a current issue that Native Americans...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Still Tomorrow: Lesson Plan: Stereotypes, Cerebral Palsy, and Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this multidisciplinary lesson, students examine stereotypes about people with physical disabilities. Using clips from Still Tomorrow, a documentary about Chinese poet Yu Xiuhua, who has cerebral palsy, students will gain awareness of...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Prairie Public Education Services Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Prairie Public Education Services award winning documentaries on Germans from Russia focus on the rich history of Germans from Russia and their migration to America. Indian Pride, the 13-part cultural magazine, showcases the unique...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: American Veteran Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow individual trajectories of America's diverse community of veterans as they join the military, experience deployments, and then return and adjust to civilian life. Analyze oral histories that describe the camaraderie of the veteran...
Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ken Burns in the Classroom: Collection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ken Burns and his collaborators have been creating historical documentary films for more than forty years. Known for a signature style that brings primary source documents, images, and archival video footage to life on screen, these...
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Other

George Mason University: Electronic Documentary History

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the history of George Mason University in documents, videos, and pictures.
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New York Times

New York Times: Audio: A Lot of Love There

For Students 9th - 10th
Robert Wright,15, star of documentary film "Stagedoor" talks about attending theater camp. Perfect for any student wanting to go into acting.
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African American Literature Book Club

African American Literature Book Club: Lorraine Hansberry

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun, including a short biography, "The Lorraine Hansbury: Mini -Documentary" video [10:38], and links to four of her books.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Documentary Heritage of the Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a larger effort to document the Civil War through primary resources consisting of personal narratives, Part I covers the "election of Abraham Lincoln, the secession crisis, the outbreak of hostilities, mobilizing for war, and...
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: How to Make Petrol or Gas From Crude Oil

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a trip on an oil rig to view how oil is drilled. This documentary shows how gas and petrol is refined from crude oil. See a pumping jack in action as it harvests "Texas's gold". Follow the crude oil as it travels through pipes to an...
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: The Inside Story of Modern Gasoline

For Students 9th - 10th
The inside story on gasoline as told by the Standard Oil Company. This documentary was made in 1946 and explores the molecules that make up crude oil. Learn how the crude oil molecules are separated to make up usable forms like gasoline,...
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Wbur: This Year in Jerusalem

For Students 9th - 10th
This Web site allows you to listen to radio broadcasts of various documentaries about the conflict in Jerusalem. Photographs, maps, articles, and news are also available detailing the history of the Holy City.
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PBS

Pbs: Unforgivable Blackness

For Students 9th - 10th
Online companion to Ken Burns documentary about boxing legend Jack Johnson. Very extensive site that gives you the life story of Johnson and the challenges he faced. Can be used as a companion to the PBS documentary.
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PBS

Pbs: Prohibition

For Students 9th - 10th
Home page for the three-part documentary film series covering the rise, rule, and fall of Prohibition. Extensive coverage of the consequences and people of the area with links to a plethora of first-hand photos. Readers are given the...
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PBS

Pbs: Independent Lens: Garbage Dreams

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Garbage Dreams is a documentary film that follows the lives of the Zabbaleen, people in Cairo who have been collecting garbage for a hundred years. But garbage collection has been contracted out to companies who do a poor job of...

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