The lesson and activities teach students to recognize and explore bias and media stereotyping and be able to identify and analyze propaganda techniques in magazine and//or TV advertising.
The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, a teacher in a small town in Iowa tried a daring classroom experiment. She decided to treat children with blue eyes as superior to children with brown eyes. FRONTLINE explores what those children learned about discrimination and how it still affects them today.
Students use research and observation data (field trip) to objectively rank potential career opportunities to help guide their individual career choice and pathway.
Learning goals/objectives:
After completing this unit, students should be able to utilize an objective method for evaluating potential careers. Students will determine what career types and opportunities are best suited to themselves personally and defend their choices.
A Southern publisher's sanitized edition of "Huckleberry Finn" that replaces the N-word with "slave" over 200 times is the focal point for a debate on the use of the controversial word in American society. Byron Pitts reports, including interviews with Randall Williams (co-owner of New South Books) and author David Bradley (professor at the University of Oregon).
Working collaboratively students pick a company to research to learn more about the history and success of the organization. The group needs to find the following pieces of information:
Company NameList of Products ProducedCompany HistoryCompany Future Outlook/Current Company NewsProduct AdvertisementsProfit/Loss Information (listed and compared to another company)CEO and Other Important Figures ListedCurrent Stock Price (graph)Five Other Pieces of Pertinent Information
The Secret Annex Online is the virtual version of the building where Anne Frank went into hiding during WWII. In this three-dimensional online environment visitors can explore the main part of the building and the Secret Annex as they were during the period in hiding.
Your students will apply their knowledge of letters and letter sounds as they play games and interact with letters online, using what they see and learn to create their own ABC book.