Abraham Lincoln: A Good Man? or A Good Man!

In this lesson, students use video from American Masters: Bill T. Jones: A Good Man as well as consult primary sources to investigate the life of Lincoln and to write a one page argument essay on whether Lincoln was "a good man."

Bamboo Mountain

In this video segment from Nature, researchers study pandas in an effort to halt their decline in population.

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Comparing and Contrasting Information and Forming an Opinion - Santiago and Morris

Students use a T-Chart to take notes and then write a compare/contrast paragraph about a therapy dog.

Identifying Information - The Dogon of Africa

Students complete a chart to categorize information and identify missing, conflicting, unclear, and irrelevant information in a video.

Introduction to the Smoking Section

In this video segment from New York Voices, two people talk about their addiction to smoking.

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Miss Navajo

To win the competition, Miss Navajo Nation must know and speak the Navajo language in this segment from Independent Lens.

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