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Alexander Hamilton: Most Likely to Succeed?

Alexander Hamilton: Most Likely to Succeed?

Explore the conditions and circumstances of Alexander Hamilton’s youth and the strengths he carried with him into his adult life.

5-8

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Art in the Muslim World

Art in the Muslim World

Through the materials presented in this lesson, students will explore basic elements of Islamic art, learn about the origin and styles of the specific art of Islamic calligraphy and create their own piece of artistic calligraphy.

5-12

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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Russian/Chechen relations are the focus of this lesson on nationalism, separatism, and terrorism. (Chechnya)

9-12

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The Business of Credit

The Business of Credit

Students apply the basics of credit to managing a small business.

7-12

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The Business of Interest

The Business of Interest

In this lesson, students learn about loans, interest on and repayment of loans through a model small business interactive.

7-12

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Campaigns for Economic Freedom

Campaigns for Economic Freedom

This lesson plan explores the economic impact of racial discrimination and campaigns for jobs and justice.

9-12

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The Changing Face of War

The Changing Face of War

In this lesson students watch and discuss videos from the PBS series Women, War & Peace to explore what warfare in the “new world order” means for the millions of people—especially women—affected by today’s intense but often obscure conflicts.

9-12

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The Colonization of the United States

The Colonization of the United States

Using video segments from the PBS series Finding Your Roots, this lesson explores Spanish colonialism in the Southwest; the lesson also expands the discussion to include other countries that colonized in North America.

9-12

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Discovering Alexander Hamilton

Discovering Alexander Hamilton

In this lesson inspired by the PBS program Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton students learn about Hamilton's contributions to the United States when it was a young nation.

4-6

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Domestic Terror: Understanding Lynching During the Jim Crow Era

Domestic Terror: Understanding Lynching During the Jim Crow Era

This lesson exposes the crime of lynching and explores the many political, legal and social attempts made by individuals and organizations to seek justice.

9-12

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Dying to be a Martyr

Dying to be a Martyr

This lesson investigates conflict in the Middle East using interviews with young would-be suicide bombers. (Israel, Palestine)

9-12

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Earthquakes

Earthquakes

Students explore the causes of earthquakes, including the role of tectonic plates, and consider the efforts scientists are making to better understand and predict these sometimes deadly events.

6-12

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The Economics of Jim Crow

The Economics of Jim Crow

In this lesson, students learn how the laws and practices of Jim Crow crippled many African Americans and lead to economic destabilization.

9-12

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Extreme Global Makeover

Extreme Global Makeover

This lesson explores the pros and cons of life in a modernized and global age. (China, India)

9-12

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Faith in Change: John Lewis

Faith in Change: John Lewis

This lesson uses video segments from the PBS series Finding Your Roots to explore the American civil rights movement of the 1960s through the personal experience of one of its most prominent leaders—Congressman John Lewis.

9-12

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Fighting Jim Crow in the Schools

Fighting Jim Crow in the Schools

In this lesson students map the events in the fight for education for African Americans from the Jim Crow era to the Civil Rights movement.

9-12

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Filling Empty Pockets

Filling Empty Pockets

Students explore the basic concepts of borrowing and credit with an emphasis on credit cards.

9-12

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Finance and Responsible Lending

Finance and Responsible Lending

In this lesson students learn the role of banks and the criteria they use to determine when to lend money.

9-12

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The Five Pillars of Islam

The Five Pillars of Islam

In this lesson, students explore and understand the basic beliefs of Islam as well as the Five Pillars that guide Muslims in their daily life: belief, worship, fasting, almsgiving, and pilgrimage.

5-12

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Free, but not Free: Life of Free Blacks before the Civil War

Free, but not Free: Life of Free Blacks before the Civil War

This hands-on, media-enhanced lesson explores the life of free blacks in the United States prior to the Civil War using video segments from Finding Your Roots.

9-11

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