For Educators

Students will conduct a debate on a related topic raised in the POV documentary "Escuela."

This lesson plan associated with Escuela helps train teachers to be sensitive to the needs and concerns of students who migrate with their families.

Students will conduct a debate on a related topic raised in the documentary Escuela. Extension activities include research projects or a letter-writing campaign. There is also a film guide for teachers who want to facilitate discussion after watching Escuela with their students.

In this lesson plan, students will use a POV documentary to follow an investigative pattern similar to the popular television show "CSI."

In this lesson plan, students closely examine the struggles of the Lakota Sioux to maintain their sacred site at Mato Tipila (Lakota for Bear's Lodge) at Devils Rock in Wyoming.

What are the clauses protecting religious practice in the First Amendment? What do they mean and how do they apply to land held sacred by several American Indian nations? Students will search to discover the answers to these questions.

In this lesson, students will be able to learn how the Israel/Palestine controversy came about. They will be able to identify with the children in the POV documentary Promises on a personal level, and to speculate on current conditions and resolutions that might affect peace.

What are the clauses protecting religious practice in the First Amendment? What do they mean and how do they apply to land held sacred by several American Indian nations? How does the Supreme Court function to resolve conflicts arising under the First Amendment? Students will engage in research and interactive exercises to discover the answers to these questions.

Students will examine Americans' changing attitudes about Native Americans, the aged, and, the rights of African-Americans and homosexuals as they study the evolving concepts of civil rights.