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The Role of the Media

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students analyze the role of media in the Gulf War after watching a video series. They participate in a small group simulating a specific group from the film. They discuss issues with their group and then participate in a whole class...
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Fallout

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a short film about the results of dropping the atomic bomb at the end of World War II. They research controversies surrounding the use of the bomb and nuclear weapons. They write two editorials about the issue.
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Asia Rising

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a short film about the economies of Japan and Korea after World War II. They discuss their challenges and succeses in building the economy. They also identify human costs of ecomonic development in those countries.
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Aerial Cameras

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students will explore ways of documenting their landmarks by a creating visual display exhibition in this Youth Source activity. Each student will need a camera and film and reflecting worksheet. Students will then reflect on their ideas...
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Photolithography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Examine the use of photolithography in the fabrication of circuit boards and other components. An advanced activity teaches pupils a process for transferring a pattern onto a surface. Using UV light and a light reactive substance,...
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Allele and Phenotype Frequencies in Rock Pocket Mouse Populations

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
In the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico, some tiny creatures show just how quickly natural selection can turn a mutation into an advantageous adaptation. Watch a video about rock pocket mice, who show that one small change can make all...
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Where Do Brown Bears Live?

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
What do brown bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park need to survive? Pupils explore the unique habitats, diet, and survival needs of this animal. They predict the consequences of removing any integral part of the bear's survival,...
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History of Miss America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make a time-lines of of decades using images from Miss America.  In this history lesson, students looks at the country's beauty pageant and how it changes the lives of women in America.  Students debate issues...
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BE-01-01 Introduction to Business Ethics

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Learners explore ethics. In this business ethics lesson, students watch "The Corporation" and discuss employee policies, community outreach, and business models.  Learners consider various scenarios that encourage authentic student...
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Climate Change and Corporate Profitability

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students study green economics. In this business ethics lesson, students listen to a lecture about environmentally stable businesses and respond to discussion questions based on the lecture.
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Does Climate Change Exist? Healthy Skepticism? Debating the Truth, Evidence, and Certainty of Climate Change

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study climate change and the arguments of scientists that it exists.  In this climate change lesson students complete a class activity and answer questions.  
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Throwing Precaution to the Wind Validity of the Precautionary Principle for Solving Climate Change

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Pupils study climate change and come up with possible remedies for it.  In this global warming lesson students complete and activity and watch a video on climate change.
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Waging A Living

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers view a video clip about minimum wage. They discover the history of wage policy in the United States and the difference between the minimum wage and living wage. They write a paper on how to increase the wages.
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The Boys of Baraka

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a video about the experience of boys from West Africa in the American school system. They discover how one's environment can affect them in the classroom. They write about the experience from different points of view.
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Maquilapolis: Examining Incentives in a Market Economy

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss the factors that influenced them to purchase a particular item. They work together to read and identify incentives of a character. They view a video on the topic as well.
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Lomax the Songhunter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write in their journals about the role of music in their lives. They discuss the media's use of music and watch a video clip about someone who prohibited the use of music. They create an illustration to show the folklife in...
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Kokoyakyu

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students video tape a sports function of their choice. They work together to discuss how a sporting event can be an expression of a country's culture. They view a video about basketball in Japan and discuss.
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Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners view a video about Nelson Mandela and apartheid. They discover what it was like for people living in South Africa during apartheid. They work together to discuss strategies that could be used for people to better communicate...
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Love, American Style

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the cultural diffusion of American popular culture around the world and create collages of visual representations of this phenomenon. Causes and effects of the cultural diffusion of American popular culture around the...
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Through the Eyes of a Child

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how documentaries can present realistic and sometimes difficult perspectives on events in our world. They choose current issues that interest them and create their own documentaries.
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The Medici Popes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore Italian politics and warfare of the Renaissance. They explain the origins and effects of the Protestant Reformation and contrast Renaissance and Medieval attitudes.
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Facing History and Ourselves

Emmett Till: Examining the Choices People Made

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The choices made by Roy Bryant and J.W. Millam, the men who murdered Emmett Till in 1955, are usually the ones people ponder when they examine the case. But other individuals made choices that contributed to the event and its subsequent...
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Political Commercials: Leading or Misleading Voters

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch election commercials for a homework assignment. They analyze the commercials and create a commercial for a fictitious candidate using the techniques they observed.
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WWI and Russian Revolution

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students view and discuss footage of Tsar Nicholas II reviewing troops on the Eastern Front in 1916 and examine how different groups would have reacted to this footage of the Tsar. They watch the video and in small groups answer...

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