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Workplace Violence: What a Ceo Can Do to Reduce the Risk

For Students 9th - 10th
Workplace violence is defined and discussed in relation to what the CEO of a company can do to prevent it.
Article
Other

The Influence of Media Violence on Youth [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Useful for papers and research projects about the effects of media violence on youth, this report was published in an academic journal.
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Other

Amistad Digital Resource: Racial Violence and Terror

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the Ku Klux Klan perpetuated hate and violence against African Americans, communists, Catholics, Jews, and others that threatened their notion of white supremacy between 1880 and 1951.
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Kenya's Post Election Violence Kills Hundreds

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a transcript of a January 2008 interview that discusses the ethnic violence that has developed as a result of Kenya's disputed presidential election. This has led to more than 275 people being killed in the western Kenyan town of...
Handout
BBC

Bbc: New Orleans Violence 'Overstated'

For Students 9th - 10th
Amid reports that there was an increase in crime and violence in New Orleans during in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this September 2005 article contends that those reports were exaggerated.
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Digital History

Digital History: Martin Luther King & Malcolm X on Violence & Integration [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were strong African-American leaders in the Civil Rights movement. Read about the differences in their approach to gaining civil rights for African-Americans. Find charts that compare their ideas on...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Center Study/prevention of Violence

For Students 9th - 10th
Colorado University at Boulder provides this information on the CSPV, which is a center for research and information concerning violence. An interesting site to check out on the subject.
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US Department of Education

Us Dept. Of Education: Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide for school communities to identify warning signs of potential violence in students, and to develop prevention, intervention and crisis response plans. Can be downloaded as a PDF file.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Community Violence

For Students Pre-K - K
When children are exposed to traumatic events within their neighborhoods, communities, or across the world, you can help them feel safer and more secure...and build hope for a more peaceful, kinder future. These resources will help you...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Violence & Video Games, the Debate

For Teachers 6th Standards
In this activity, 6th graders read and discuss an article about video games and violence, then participate in a debate. They are divided into groups and each group prepares an argument and their evidence, then one person from each group...
Handout
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Volcanic Violence

For Students 4th - 8th
Mount St. Helens getting active, how do we forecast or predict volcanoes? How do volcanoes change the landscape? How does life return after a volcano?
Article
Other

Caravaggio: No Art in Violence?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores the violent tendencies of the great artist Caravaggio and how this affected him, his life, and his art.
Interactive
BBC

Bbc News: Baghdad: Mapping the Violence

For Students 9th - 10th
This animated map of Baghdad shows the parts of the city as it is bombed by date from 2003 to 2007,a running tally of people killed in specific areas, and the ethnic divisions in the city.
Lesson Plan
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Darfur: Violence and the Media

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson in which students use a video, handouts, and other reading material to investigate events in Sudan, assess the argument over whether the Darfur conflict is a genocide, and consider the international response to these events.
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PBS

Pbs: In the Mix: Dating Violence: Twisted Love

For Students 9th - 10th
In the Mix, the forum on social issues for teens that airs on PBS, considers the issue of violence and abuse in teen relationships.
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BBC

Bbc: Violence Spreads in Sierra Leone

For Students 9th - 10th
Shortly after the swearing-in of Sierra Leone's new president, Ernest Bai Koroma, in 2007, violence occurred between his supporters and those of the opposition. The situation and Koroma's response are described in this article. [20...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: A Twisted Love Poem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Understand the physical and emotional facets of dating violence -- its warning signs, examples of violence, statistics, and how to leave an abusive relationship. Interpret a poem on the theme of dating violence.
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Other

Character Education Partnership: School Safety

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of links to resources for teachers and parents for helping children process their responses to school violence, such as the Sandy Hook tragedy.
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University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: When Kids Kill

For Students 9th - 10th
This Why? Files resource offers information and resources on school violence issues entitled "When Kids Kill."
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: A Deadly Trend

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of an interview with three experts on the issue of school violence, following the school shooting in Springfield, Oregon in 1998. (Aired: May 22, 1998)
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Other

Keep Schools Safe

For Students 9th - 10th
Keep Schools Safe provides information for parents, students, and schools. The safety and security directory and the section offering books on school violence are both good references.
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Keep Schools Safe

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Keep Schools Safe provides information for parents, students, and schools. The safety and security directory and the section offering books on school violence are both good references.
Activity
Other

Guide to Psychology and Its Practice: Adolescent Violence

For Students 9th - 10th
Why are some kids prone to violence? This site by R. Richmond, Ph.D. offers some sound reasons and is very informative. Is it money? Is it media? is it more?
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PBS

Pbs: The Roman Empire of the 1st Century: The Violence of Ancient Rome

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the extreme violence that permeated Roman society and how that violence may have attributed to the downfall of the Roman Empire. Students will make comparisons between the violence in ancient Rome and the violence...

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