For Educators

In this lesson, students will analyze a current issue that Native Americans face (college completion) and will consider factors that might contribute to their own decisions either to enter or to complete college.

Lección: Recoger historias orales sobre el genocidio en Guatemala.

In this lesson, students will explore and analyze how United States immigration policy affects families with mixed citizenship status.

In this lesson, students will conduct nonfiction character analyses of a New Orleans resident named Carolyn Parker, who was filmed for a documentary following the Hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005. Students will collect details from these clips about Parker's background and personal characteristics and then organize this information into character analysis essays.

In this lesson, students will identify and research participants in social justice movements or other types of movements or communities.

In this lesson, students will collect and analyze data in an effort to improve their performance in an interactive simulation featuring competitive kart racing.

In this lesson, students will watch documentary video clips that provide a case study of a woman who reads modern-day romance novels and tries to recreate a fantasy from a novel in her real life. Students will break down and analyze her behavior, and then use a psychological theory of motivation to explain it.

In this lesson, students will research and discuss what Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Hinduism teach in terms of what happens when people die. This lesson will also provide an opportunity for students to think critically about the differences and similarities between religions and belief systems.

In this lesson, students will watch a video clip about a young woman whose father disappeared during the Guatemalan dictatorship in 1984 as part of a systematic genocide. They will then discuss the strengths and limitations of oral histories in telling the story of such a complicated tragedy.

In this lesson, students will investigate how press coverage of criminal trials has the potential to influence public opinion and the rights of the accused. Using a video case study of a trial in the Philippines, the class will first discuss how a man was characterized in the media following his arrest, and then analyze the coverage of the trial and verdict.