For Educators

In this lesson, history meets science as students investigate whether an event in the 1860s that limited genetic variation among Navajos may have led to both children of a modern-day Navajo couple being born with a rare genetic disease. To investigate this theory, students will use a basic simulation model to track gene frequencies across multiple generations.

In this lesson, students will watch and discuss video clips that show how two men in Chile coped with being prisoners in concentration camps during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Each student will then create a non-fiction picture book that tells the story of one of these men and provides historical context.

In this lesson, students will study the nesting process of the endangered loggerhead turtle species and watch a video clip that illustrates how artificial lighting along nesting beaches disorients turtle hatchlings and hinders their ability to reach the ocean successfully.

Students will explore the business ethics related to American companies outsourcing manufacturing to China and students will explore how China's rapid rise as a force in the global economy has affected Chinese society.

In this lesson, students will explore how China's rapid rise as a force in the global economy has affected Chinese culture, society and the individual.

In this lesson, students will explore the business ethics related to American companies outsourcing manufacturing to Chinese factories with unsafe and unfair labor practices.

In this lesson, students will study the benefits and drawbacks of plea bargains, which determine the outcome of roughly 90 percent of criminal cases in the United States.

In this lesson, students will watch and research animal husbandry practices for managing newborn lambs. The clips used in this lesson are from Sweetgrass, a film that compiles raw footage of ranchers caring for sheep and the now defunct practice of driving sheep to summer pasture in Montana's Absaroka-Beartooth mountains.

In this lesson, students will examine the role of various forms of protest in a democracy.

In this lesson, students will look at how competitions motivate participants to develop their skills and achieve excellence. Students will watch film clips and compare and contrast the French pastry chef competition with one in the United States.