Social Studies
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Lesson Plans
Obama’s Plan to Feed the World’s Poorest
Students will evaluate President Obama’s Food Plan and discuss/debate whether the initiative will be effective or not.
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Lesson Plans
Making a Movement
Students will (1) discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using social media and other forms of communication to bolster a movement and (2) create and present a text that promotes an issue.
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalists: Sara Shahriari and Noah Friedman-Rudovsky
In this video, Sara Shahriari and Noah Friedman-Rudovsky, both freelancers who have lived for many...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Gaiutra Bahadur
Electoral contests and racial violence have been linked from Guyana's very beginning as an...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Justin Catanoso
On June 18, 2015, Pulitzer Center grantee Justin Catanoso covered the release of Pope Francis's...
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Project
Cuba in Flux
Cuban communism is in flux. Citizens own businesses and property; some are even allowed to protest...
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Lesson Plans
Proposing a Win for Women Worldwide
Students will integrate information from multiple news sources in order to explore gender inequality issues around the world.
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Lesson Plans
Should the Beijing City Government Shut Down the Underground Residences of the Rat Tribe?
Students will be able to identify the push and pull factors of Chinese migrant workers, analyze their living conditions in Beijing.
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Students will identify the discriminatory nature of Russia’s Anti-Propaganda Law, analyze ways it violates Russian citizens’ constitutional rights, and propose solutions.
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Lesson Plans
A Free Meal: India's School Lunch Program
India's midday meal program is the largest free lunch school program in the world. Through animation, radio reports and articles, students discover the successes and failures of the program.
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Lesson Plans
Families of Domestic Workers from the Philippines
In this lesson, students evaluate the impact of how an author orders information by analyzing two articles about Filipino women leaving their countries to work as domestic workers in the Middle East.
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Students will develop a foreign policy proposal regarding fragile states, which they will plan to submit to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.