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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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Lesson Plan July 13 2023

Lesson plan: Who is an inventor, anyway?

Learn what makes an inventor and how you can use skills you already have to become one today

Lesson Plan July 07 2023

Educator Voice: How issues of inequality affect how teachers teach

Teachers join Jeremy Ney to discuss inequality in the U.S.

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Lesson Plan July 03 2023

Lesson plan: Patent pending! Learn how to patent your invention

So, you finally put your great idea for an invention down on paper. Now what happens?

Former U.S. President Donald Trump departs Trump Tower for a deposition two days after FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach home

Lesson Plan June 26 2023

5 things to know about Trump's charges

Learn about the charges former president Donald Trump has against him

Lesson Plan May 24 2023

Lesson plan: How to short-circuit misinformation before it spreads online

Learn how to identify misinformation shared on social media

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Lesson Plan May 03 2023

Be MediaWise lesson 14: 'AI Ian' shows you how not to be duped by AI technology

Learn how NOT to be fooled by AI video technology

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Lesson Plan May 01 2023

Be MediaWise lesson 6: How social media algorithms create echo chambers

Learn how algorithms work and how they can create echo chambers

Lesson Plan April 26 2023

Be MediaWise lesson 2: How to use lateral reading to debunk conspiracy theories online

Learn how to debunk a conspiracy theory using lateral reading and the Stanford History Education Group’s “Three Questions"

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Lesson Plan April 13 2023

Be MediaWise lesson 11: How to detect ads disguised as 'helpful' news stories

And avoid getting duped by companies trying to get your money

Tennessee Republicans vote to expel Democratic lawmakers from statehouse in Nashville, TN

Lesson Plan April 12 2023

Lesson plan: Why Frederick Douglass and Rep. Justin Pearson discussed the Fourth of July in their speeches

In this lesson, students will read excerpts from Rep. Justin Pearson’s speech and Frederick Douglass’s famous speech, “What To The Slave is the Fourth of July?”

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