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Explores the careers of 19 great female scientists, the challenges they overcame and why some of those challenges are still present

Hear from Stanley Nelson, director of "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution," who discusses the role social justice plays in documentary filmmaking

Learn how teachers are training to become Dreamer advocates in order to support their undocumented students

Understand midterm elections and discuss reasons why voter turnout remains low

Learn about fake social media accounts called ‘bots’ that have been used to try to influence public opinion—and not always for the better

In this PBS NewsHour lesson, students take a hands-on approach to nature by exploring green spaces in their community.

Explore inventions that harness the power of water to make electricity

Design an app that helps your community, modeled after young entrepreneurs in California's rural Salinas Valley

How do we know that our government is fulfilling its duties to us, the public? How do we decide what those duties are? As efforts to pass the federal budget get underway, students will have the power to re-prioritize how money is spent using the interactive tool Balancing Act. What changes will they make?