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Lesson Plan October 03 2016

Student Reporting Labs: Talking trash and your environment

Use this PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs video, "California community works to protect oc…

Lesson Plan September 24 2016

Debating Our Destiny: Do Presidential Debates Matter?

Watch video clips from PBS NewsHour’s “Debating Our Destiny” with Jim Lehrer, which includes famous debate moments as well as interviews with the candidates themselves

Lesson Plan August 31 2016

Pokémon and privacy issues your students should know

Are there privacy issues that teachers and students should be aware of?

Lesson Plan June 10 2016

Inventions: How do innovation and design help people with disabilities?

Learn about the role of inventions in improving accessibility for people with disabilities and create a paper or cardboard prototype of their own invention

Lesson Plan June 07 2016

Understanding Campaign Finance Law

Campaign finance has been a major point of discussion among the three remaining presidential candidates. How much do students know about the history of campaign finance law?

Post June 07 2016

Understanding Campaign Finance Law

Campaign finance has been a major point of contention during the 2016 election season. Most n…

Lesson Plan June 10 2015

Lesson Plan: Constitutional amendments and marriage equality

Students will get the chance to write their own amendments to the Bill of Rights

Daily Video September 16 2014

Chinese company’s purchase could impact the U.S. food industry

A Chinese company has bought the biggest pork producer in the U.S., raising concerns that the deal will pave the way for more foreign takeovers of major U.S. companies.

Lesson Plan April 24 2014

Lesson plan: Lidice & Lezaky — their stories through stamps

Understand the Holocaust through the commemoration of two Czech villages

Lesson Plan April 08 2014

Toxic trial: taking responsibility for environmental problems

By Katie Gould , PBS NewsHour Teacher Resource Producer Introduction This lesson…

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