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Lesson Plan March 26 2024

How2Internet: How to avoid online scams

Learn to produce a fact-check video using media literacy skills
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Lesson Plan March 14 2024

What is invention education? Explainer and lesson plans where students are the inventors!

Teach students how to design their own inventions that help their communities
How2Internet: Produce a fact-check video
Lesson Plan March 05 2024

How2Internet: How to produce a fact-check video

Learn to produce a fact-check video using media literacy skills
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Lesson Plan February 08 2024

Lesson plan: Design an invention to keep first responders safe

As first responders keep our communities safe, learn how to help keep them safe through new inventions.
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Lesson Plan January 31 2024

Lesson plan: Exploring the wreckage of slave ships and the 'untold American story'

Learn about the ways history is still being uncovered today
How2Internet: Search safely online like a pro
Lesson Plan January 31 2024

How2Internet: Search safely online like a pro

Learn to safely set up a social media account
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Lesson Plan January 12 2024

Lesson plan: Shutting down government shutdowns

Learn about government shutdowns and discuss the best way to end or prevent them
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Lesson Plan September 13 2023

Lesson plan: How America's history of racism continues to shape us today

Discuss the ways political divisions in the U.S. today are informed by a history of racism
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Lesson Plan September 12 2023

Lesson plan: Should Congress pass a domestic terrorism bill?

Discuss recent attempts in Congress to pass a domestic terrorism bill, and why it failed
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Lesson Plan August 01 2023

Lesson plan: Dolores Huerta — a lifetime of activism

Learn about activist Dolores Huerta, who has spent her life trying to change and educate people on oppressive labor systems
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Lesson Plan July 13 2023

Lesson plan: Learn how to pitch your invention

Pitch ideas for solving problems in your community
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Lesson Plan July 13 2023

Lesson plan: What does an inventor do?

Learn what strategies inventors use to solve problems they see around them
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