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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Collection: Becoming Helen Keller

For Students 9th - 10th
Rediscover the complex life and legacy of the author, advocate and human rights pioneer. Helen Keller (1880-1968), who was deaf and blind since childhood, used her celebrity and wit to advocate for social justice, particularly for women,...
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Chicago History Museum

Encyclopedia of Chicago: Charity Organization Societies

For Students 9th - 10th
As urban populations increased along with poverty in urban areas, charities began to offer help. Read about the Charity Organization Society that attempted to coordinate charitiable giving. Read about the evolution of the coordination of...
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Great Depression and the 1990s

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site includes a unit about the Great Depression. Students will create a creative writing based on Dorothea Lange's 1936 "Migrant Mother" photograph. They will also write a position paper on the United States' current welfare issue....
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Forum Romanum

Outlines of Roman History: Times of the Gracchi: Causes of Civil Strife

For Students 9th - 10th
In a chapter from William Morey's 1901 textbook, he explains the make-up of the Roman populus at the beginning of the Late Republic.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Companies: Critical Thinking Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th
10 valuable critical thinking exercises ranging in subject matter. Includes questions and exercises regarding biological development, language usage, morals, values and ethics, and thought cycles.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Botswana Today

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the achievements and national problems of the African nation of Botswana in this video segment from Wide Angle.
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US National Archives

Our Documents: Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933)

For Students 9th - 10th
An actual interactive copy of the original Tennessee Valley Authority Act that created cheap power in the Tennessee Valley. Links to larger images, a typed transcript, and a downloadable .PDF file are included on this site. Make sure to...
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Other

Americares

For Students 9th - 10th
Americares is an international relief organization that helps supply relief to those who have experienced disaster or struggle on a daily basis. They have helped deliver medical care and other aid to 137 countries over the past 25 years.
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Other

The Eleanor Rigby Project

For Students 6th - 8th
This is an online collaborative project for middle school students from around the globe. The focus of the project is learning about those who find themselves living on the street. The Eleanor Rigby Project will help students examine not...
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Other

Inside Out: Doctors Without Borders

For Students 9th - 10th
Boston's NPR news source features Doctors Without Borders. Find information, notes, audio, and an interactive photographic tour.
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Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

For Students 9th - 10th
The FAO leads international efforts to defeat hunger. They help developing countries to improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all.
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Other

Direct Relief International

For Students 9th - 10th
Direct Relief International provides medical assistance and works to improve the health efforts of needy countries. The hope is that the quality of life for the impoverished and displaced will be improved.
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Other

Shelter for Life, International: Restoring Lives Rebuilding Communities

For Students 9th - 10th
The mission of SFL is to enable people affected by conflict and disaster to rebuild their communities and restore their lives.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: What Makes the Writer Write?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson engages students in reading and research related to the Victorian Era. Students will analyze this time period's influence on the writings of Charles Dickens. Then students will analyze how today's authors incorporate social...
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Other

Medecins Sans Frontieres

For Students 9th - 10th
"MSF is an independent humanitarian medial aid agency committed to two objectives: providing medical aid wherever needed, regardless of race, religion, politics or sex and raising awareness of the plight of te people we help".
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: International Committee of the Red Cross History

For Students 9th - 10th
Article from the Nobel Peace Prize organization that discusses the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has figured in the Nobel Peace Prize four times.
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Other

Operation Blessing Relief and Development Corporation

For Students 9th - 10th
International relief and development organization that strives to combat hunger, deprivation and physical affliction for those in need.
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The World Bank

World Bank Group: Data by Topic

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to data which cover agriculture, education, environment, health and population and other issues regarding economic development.
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World Food Programme

Free Rice

For Students 9th - 10th
This vocabulary and grammar site provides free quizzes. The site will donate grains of rice to the World Hunger Programme for each correct answer.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Feed the Hungry With Food Stamp Programs

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to the history of food stamp programs.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun.
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British Library

British Library: Barrett Browning's Poetry: Social & Political Commentary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave a voice, in her poems, to many of those oppressed by contemporary injustice: child laborers, the poor, and the enslaved. In this lesson, students will give these voices dramatic form, using the techniques...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History Period 6: 1865 1898: Social Darwinism & Gilded Age

For Students 9th - 10th
The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Social Darwinism, Charles Darwin, and the Gilded Ages are discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US...
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BBC

Bbc: Report Reveals Global Slum Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines the problems of the urban populations in Subsaharan African countries. Examines why the people move into these communities and why they get stuck there. (16 June 2006)

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