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Lesson Plan November 04 2024

Lesson plan: Should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote?

Learn about the role of local school boards and debate whether students should help elect them or be allowed to vote in other elections.

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Lesson Plan November 04 2024

Choose one: 7 engaging civics lessons

Check out these 7 video lessons on voting rights, political parties, media bias and more

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Lesson Plan September 25 2024

Lesson plan: Should the Electoral College stay or go?

What do students think about the Electoral College? Do they think it is fair? Would they like to see the system changed?

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Lesson Plan September 09 2024

Lesson plan: Hosting a presidential debate

Analyze campaign issues and practice formal debate procedures and elements of logic with this lesson

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Lesson Plan December 11 2021

Lesson plan: Decoding media bias

Examine current news stories and how they’re covered by the news media

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Daily Video January 05 2021

Classroom Resource: Georgia voters to decide balance of power in Senate

Discuss what's at stake in today's Georgia runoff elections.

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Daily Video January 04 2021

2020 in Review: Stories you might have missed and why they matter

Discuss what stories were under-reported amid a year of consequential change

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Daily News Lesson December 12 2020

Activity: Are press freedoms under threat?

Hear from a journalist convicted of "cyber libel" in the Philippines and research threats to press freedoms in the U.S.

Vials of AstraZeneca's COVISHIELD, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine are seen before they are packaged inside a lab at Serum Institute of India, in Pune

Daily Video December 06 2020

News Roundup: COVID-19 hits records but there is hope in sight

A vaccine for COVID-19 is close at hand, but it may be months before it helps slow case counts.

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Daily Video December 03 2020

Why does the Trump administration want to change who is counted in the census?

Learn who the census counts and what the Trump administration is seeking to change/

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