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Lesson Plan September 06 2019

Lesson plan: Inventing assistive devices that give people their independence

Learn about assistive devices and how innovation plays a key role in the invention process

Lesson Plan September 04 2019

Lesson plan: PBS 'Time for School' series explores what going to school in six countries is like

Using the art of the personal essay and social media, explore what school means

Drinking straws protrude from a glass in a illustration picture in Loughborough

Lesson Plan August 30 2019

Lesson plan: How student inventors can help solve the Earth's plastic problem

Use this NewsHour lesson plan to learn more about invention education and how students are creating solutions to help improve plastic pollution

Lesson Plan May 30 2019

Lesson plan: How teens deal with the spread of misinformation

Find out what young people really think about the news and the spread of misinformation using a variety of short videos produced by PBS NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs.

Daily Video January 21 2019

Lessons from Martin Luther King Jr. for today

Use this lesson on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to discuss dreamed of an America where people would "not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"

Student Voices January 08 2019

"My piece is going to remain unbiased to avoid any unwanted judgment": One student's thoughts following 2016 election

by Michael Benedetto, 10th grade, Commack High School PBS Student Voices Contest Submission The …

Lesson Plan January 07 2019

Special Olympics' federal funding may be in jeopardy

Since its founding in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of President John F. Kennedy, the …

Lesson Plan February 26 2018

Lesson plan: Social justice through the lens of the Black Panthers

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

Lesson Plan February 02 2018

Lesson plan: How DACA demonstrates the importance of civic engagement

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

An elections official demonstrates a touch-screen voting machine at the Fairfax County Governmental Center in Fairfax Virginia

Lesson Plan November 14 2017

Monitoring the midterms: Do midterm elections matter?

Understand midterm elections and discuss reasons why voter turnout remains low

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