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How Did I Become the Person I Am?
This multi-week unit for grades 6-8 on the Out of Eden project can be divided for individual lesson plans. Students explore human migration and its impact by generating digital media.
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Who Am I?
This multi-week unit for grades 3-5 on the Out of Eden project can be divided for individual lesson plans. Students explore human migration and its impact by generating digital media.
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BAM Test
A test of using this resource in NYC.
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In the following lesson plan for English teachers, history teachers, humanities teachers and science teachers, students analyze the impacts of Cholera outbreaks in Manhattan and Haiti by exploring...
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Lesson Plan: Understanding the Zika Virus
This Zika Virus-focused lesson plan for English teachers, history teachers, humanities teachers and science teachers, uses journalist-grantee Laura Bassett's article "The Zika Virus Could Force Women...
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The following global health lesson plan for English teachers, history teachers, humanities teachers and science teachers introduces students to journalist Rob Tinworth's The Life Equation project. It...
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Students will illustrate their critical reading of "Fractured Lands" and their assessment of the causes and effects of the crisis in the Arab World by creating a 30-foot timeline.
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The Arab Spring Monologues
This lesson provides guidelines for students to create their own play based on "Fractured Lands," a story published by The New York Times Magazine in the print edition on August 14, 2016.
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Working with Fractured Lands in Middle East History
After discussing “Fractured Lands,” groups of students will present on a particular character’s story, contextualizing it in terms of contemporary history, geopolitics, and conflict.