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Created by Katie Gould in collaboration with Dr. Steven Schlozman Author of “The Zombie Autopsies” Introduction This lesson introduces students to writing an academic journal…read more
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Created by Katie Gould in collaboration with Dr. Steven Schlozman Author of “The Zombie Autopsies” Introduction This lesson introduces students to the concept of medications…read more
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Created by Katie Gould in collaboration with Dr. Steven Schlozman Author of “The Zombie Autopsies” Introduction This lesson introduces students to neurons and neurotransmission through…read more
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DOWNLOAD VIDEO A panel of climate scientists from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released a study saying that they found it was…read more
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This lesson plan celebrates the recent Nobel Prize for Medicine award winners for their work on how cells move molecular “cargo”. Students will be introduced to the…read more
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March is Women’s History Month, where we highlight and celebrate the accomplishments of women who…
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In March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the island nation of Japan, causing a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Three years later, experts are trying to assess how recovery efforts in the nuclear-affected area are progressing. Continue reading
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By Katie Gould, PBS NewsHour Extra Teacher Resource Producer and Elizabeth Jones, PBS NewsHour Production…
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The State Department released its annual human rights report last week and concluded that last summer’s chemical weapons attack in Syria, which killed more than 1,400 people, was the worst human rights violation of 2013. Continue reading
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By Katie Gould, PBS NewsHour Extra Teacher Resource Producer Introduction Each year the festival of…
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