For Educators

Students will have the opportunity to consider important issues such as the role of polling in elections and of media reporting in the outcome of elections.

Students will have the opportunity to consider important issues such as how police brutality, illustrates systemic problems related to policing and what some are doing to bring about reforms.

Students will have the opportunity to consider important issues such as ideas of "cultural pluralism" and the "melting pot" while discussing to what extent immigrants today should integrate themselves into American society.

This lesson will help students reflect on why people become parents, understand the kind of commitment required to be a parent, consider notions of childhood and how media contributes to those notions and practice media analysis skills.

Students will have the opportunity to consider important issues such as the distinction between indigenous Hawaiian people who are descendants of Hawai'i's aboriginal settlers, and other residents of Hawai'i who are not Native Hawaiian and understand issues of cultural identity at stake for Native Hawaiians.

The aim of this lesson plan, based on the POV film Thirst, is to look at water privatization as both a local and global issue affecting all of us and to explore the impacts of water privatization on our local communities.

This study guide on genocide and the children of war is divided into four lessons.

Students will have the opportunity to consider important issues such as how zoning policies affect neighborhoods, examine the tensions between private property rights and public interests and learn about the role of housing policy in municipal politics.

This study guide on genocide and the children of war is divided into four lessons. The first uses a poem to introduce the main ideas developed in Discovering Dominga. Each of the remaining lessons highlights one of the three 2003 POV films that deal with genocide - Discovering Dominga, The Flute Player and Lost Boys of Sudan.

Students will have the opportunity to consider important issues such as how zoning policies affect neighborhoods, examine the tensions between private property rights and public interests and learn about the role of housing policy in municipal politics.