POV offers free resources for educators, including 200+ online film clips connected to 100+ standards-aligned lesson plans, discussion guides and reading lists. Registered educators can use any of 80+ full-length films in the classroom for free through our documentary lending library.
The Fire Next Time (About the Film)
The Fire Next Time explores what happens when free speech dissolves into hate speech. The hour-long documentary looks at a two-year period in the life of a dangerously divided town and shows how heated rhetoric can devolve into hate, intimidation, and violence.
Grade Levels: 11-12th Grade, 9-10th Grade
Subjects: Civics, Current Events, Law, Life Skills, Media Literacy, Multiculturalism, Social Studies, Sociology
Big Enough (About the Film)
This lesson provides students with an opportunity to explore and discuss issues of identity, stereotypes and diversity in our society/culture. Students will examine the impact intolerance has on groups in our society by hearing from people of small stature in the film and by examining their own self-identities and how they may have been influenced by society and external definitions.
Grade Levels: 6-8th Grade
Subjects: Language Arts, Multiculturalism, Sociology
Chisholm '72 (About the Film)
This lesson plan is meant to be used in conjunction with screening Chisholm '72 and is designed to help students to research the process of presidential elections as detailed in the U.S. Constitution; evaluate the meaning of citizenship, representation and the importance of voting; learn more about the history of political representation of minorities in the United States; and gain skills they can use to analyze and evaluate media information.
Grade Levels: 11-12th Grade, 6-8th Grade, 9-10th Grade
Subjects: Civics, Government, History, Social Studies
Hardwood (About the Film)
This lesson plan is designed to be used in conjunction with the 30-minute POV documentary Hardwood.
Grade Levels: 11-12th Grade, 9-10th Grade
Subjects: Language Arts
In The Realms of the Unreal (About the Film)
POV is thrilled to offer high school teachers the following lesson plans prepared by the Education Department of the American Folk Art Museum and NYC High School Teachers, as part of their In the Realms of Henry Darger High School Curriculum.
Grade Levels: 11-12th Grade, 9-10th Grade
Subjects: Arts, History, Language Arts, Social Studies, U.S. History
In The Realms of the Unreal (About the Film)
POV is thrilled to offer high school teachers the following lesson plans prepared by the Education Department of the American Folk Art Museum and NYC High School Teachers, as part of their In the Realms of Henry Darger High School Curriculum.
Grade Levels: 11-12th Grade, 6-8th Grade, 9-10th Grade
Subjects: Arts
The Hobart Shakespeareans (About the Film)
Rafe Esquith shares some of his classroom secrets with fellow teachers.
Grade Levels: 6-8th Grade
Subjects: Education, Language Arts, Life Skills
The Education of Shelby Knox (About the Film)
Students will have the opportunity to consider important issues such as the current debate over sex education and difference in approach between abstinence only and comprehensive sex education.
Grade Levels: 11-12th Grade, 9-10th Grade
Subjects: Civics, Current Events, Education, Health, Life Skills, Social Studies
No Bigger Than a Minute (About the Film)
This lesson plan incorporates the film and POV website resources of No Bigger Than a Minute, an eclectic documentary about filmmaker Delano's experience as a dwarf. Students will have the opportunity to learn more about how to analyzing messages conveyed in visual images, through studying Velázquez's beautiful paintings.
Grade Levels: 11-12th Grade, 9-10th Grade
Subjects: Arts, Language Arts, Social Studies, Sociology
Hiding And Seeking (About the Film)
A lesson plan for the POV documentary Hiding and Seeking.
Grade Levels: 11-12th Grade, 9-10th Grade
Subjects: European History, History, International, Social Studies, World History