For Educators

This lesson plan is designed to be used with the film Up the Yangtze, which shows how China's Three Gorges Dam project is changing the Yangtze River and the lives of those who live along its path. Classrooms can use this lesson to explore the social, economic and political changes caused by technological advances. Also, students will increase their skills for analyzing visual imagery. (Note: Many sections of this film have English subtitles.)

Soldiers of Conscience explores the morality of killing in wartime. Classrooms can use this lesson to help students consider opposing arguments on this issue and then develop and defend their own positions.

Classrooms can use this lesson, based on the POV documentary Inheritance, to explore the responsibility of standing up to injustice and cruelty.

This lesson plan is designed to be used with the film, City of Cranes. Students will explore the role that "perspective" plays in disciplines such as literature, art and politics.

Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars relates the story of a band born in a West African refugee camp that chooses to fight back against their suffering and circumstances with music.

Students will use viewing skills, note-taking strategies and class discussion to determine the causes of Newark's 1967 urban rebellion and then to identify lessons learned and write about how those lessons could be applied toward positive changes in your community or state.

This lesson plan is designed to be used in conjunction with the film Rain in a Dry Land, which follows the stories of two modern-day Somali Bantu families who resettle in the United States. Students will identify the challenges faced by various organizations that assist refugee and develop strategies to help them in their work.

This lesson asks students to consider whether acts of civil disobedience, such as those committed by the Camden 28, are appropriate means of bringing about positive change.

This lesson will explore U.S. policies related to hemp, as well as the relationship of the U.S. government to indigenous nations.

This lesson based on the POV film Made in L.A. compares current conditions in the garment industry with those at the turn of the 20th century.