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Lesson Plan September 11 2020

Lesson plan: Decode the Electoral College and predict the next president
 Let your students predict the next president with the Electoral Decoder, an interactive carto…
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Lesson Plan August 28 2020

Lesson plan: Build your own knowledge of the suffrage movement

Learn some of the often overlooked stories of the suffrage movement
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Daily Video August 17 2020

At the centennial of the 19th Amendment, what does gender inequality look like?

A hundred years after women won the right to vote in every state, what is the pandemic doing to erase gains toward equality?
An election worker places mail-in ballots into an election box at a drive-through drop off location at the Registrar of Voters in San Diego, California
Daily News Lesson August 04 2020

How the Electoral College and claims of voter fraud may complicate election 2020
Listen to this podcast produced by EXTRA interns and discuss the electoral college and mail in voting
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Post July 31 2020

Will Trump leave office? An interview with Prof. Lawrence Douglas
Editor's note: This is the first entry of Office Hours , a podcast devoted to students interview…
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Daily Video March 09 2020

What your students need to know about the 2020 Census
In this NewsHour Extra lesson, learn about Census 2020 and why the U.S. conducts the census.
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Daily Video October 18 2019

Impeachment inquiry: How civics helps eclipse partisanship
Use this NewsHour lesson plan to hear about Trump's chief of staff Mick Mulvaney's press conference on the impeachment inquiry.
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Daily Video May 21 2019

Study guide: Alabama and Missouri pass laws restricting access to abortion
Use this NewsHour lesson with your students to learn more about the recent wave of state laws restricting abortion.
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Daily Video September 25 2018

#MonitoringTheMidterms: How gerrymandering impacts your vote
Use this lesson plan to learn more about how gerrymandering impacts your vote.
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Daily Video September 25 2017

Free speech and Trump's reaction to NFL protesters
Use this PBS NewsHour lesson plan to discuss President Trump’s comments that football players should be fired if they kneel during the national anthem.
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