For Educators

In this lesson, students will participate in a role-playing activity that presents a hypothetical scenario in which the U.S. government seeks to restore Native Americans to their historic homelands by asking current landowners to sell their land and move. The class will then explore how a similar situation is playing out in modern-day South Africa.

In this lesson, students will watch video clips about the journey of a young Chinese girl after a family in New York adopts her, then discuss how the terms "assimilation" and "acculturation" and then consider more broadly how much they think immigrants should maintain or let go of their cultures when they move to the United States.

This lesson plan utilizes the film and POV's website resources for Food, Inc., a documentary that examines food in the United States and the industry that produces it. Classrooms can use these materials to explore the benefits and controversies of using genetically modified seeds.

This lesson plan utilizes the film and POV's website resources for Food, Inc., a documentary that examines food in the United States and the industry that produces it. Students can use these materials to explore what consumers should be able to learn about food from Nutrition Facts panels.

This lesson plan utilizes the film and POV's website resources for Food, Inc., a documentary that examines food in the United States and the industry that produces it. Classrooms can use these materials to investigate how agricultural subsidies influence food choices, health and the economy.

This mini-curriculum is designed to help professors incorporate the basics of social-issue documentary production into their larger teaching objectives. It uses the resources of the POV website.

Use this lesson plan to prepare your students to watch documentaries, highlighting the difference between fact, fiction and opinion.

In this lesson, students will study the cases of two whistleblowers and judge whether the actions of whistleblowers help or hurt society. Students will then explain how they would have acted if they had been in the whistleblowers' situations.

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times about the history of the Vietnam War. This lesson plan is designed to familiarize students with the release of the Pentagon Papers and some of the broader issues, questions and considerations it raised about journalism and transparency.

This educational unit utilizes interviews with the filmmakers of four films that are set in various places around the globe - Cambodia, Guatemala, Mexico and the Philippines. Each tells a powerful story that spotlights injustice, either on a massive societal scale, as with the genocides in Cambodia and Guatemala, or at the individual level, as with injustices in Mexico and the Philippines.