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Lesson Plan December 30 2025

Lesson plan: Create a cell phone storage device for your school

Discuss how to create cell phone storage devices that meet the needs of a whole school community

Lesson Plan May 30 2025

Lesson plan: Olympic boycotts in history

Learn how sports and politics intersect through protests over the years at the Olympic Games

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Lesson Plan April 02 2025

Following the money in campaign donations and policymaking

Learn about how money can be a corrupting force in politics and who benefits most from it

Lesson Plan January 06 2024

Student guide to Jan. 6: Lesson plans, timeline, key terms

View this study guide to learn more about the Jan. 6 hearings and to access a timeline, key terms and class activities

Group of men arrested after they were found in the rear of a U Haul van in Coeur d'Alene

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

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?”

Lesson Plan July 13 2022

Lesson plan: How overturning Roe will adversely affect historically marginalized women

Students will learn about the ways that the end of Roe v. Wade and the rise of abortion bans across the country will fall most heavily on poor women, women of color and women experiencing domestic violence

All-Seeing Eye of God on American dollar

Lesson Plan February 12 2021

Lesson plan: Conspiracy theories, then and now

For a Google doc of this lesson, click here. (Note: You will need to make a copy of the Google doc …

Lesson Plan March 27 2015

Lesson plan: Satire's role in current events

This lesson asks students to think critically about their relationship to satire and explore the question of how it helps us interpret global events.

Lesson Plan September 30 2014

Lesson plan: Ebola outbreak

By Katie Gould, PBS NewsHour Extra Teacher Resource Producer Introduction The Ebola outbrea…

Lesson Plan February 20 2013

Podcasting: Sharing your ideas About featured topics - Lesson Plan

By Lisa Prososki Subject(s) Social Studies, Communication Arts, Technology, Science, J…

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