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Under the Gun Culture

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students examine the rise in gun violence in Britain. In this current events lesson, students research selected websites to discover details about the increasing gun culture growing among Britain's youth.
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Keep It Academic

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students study various methods to learn about religion in the classroom. In this religion study lesson plan, students read and visit links to learn about various ways of teaching religion in schools. Students learn the model world...
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What Effect Does A Communities Attitudes/Values/And Beliefs Effect Student Behavior And Influence Curriculum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine how race relations effect the kinds and amount of educational resources individual schools receive within a school district.
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Building Communities

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine the ADL's Pyramid of Hate and use it to identify bullying instances they are aware of. In this character education lesson plan, students discuss their findings and design activities or programs to combat bullying...
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Who Invented Religion?

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore religious controversies with the release of the film "The Passion of the Christ." In this current events lesson, students discuss religious beliefs and the place for violence in religious and historical films. 
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Playing Dirty

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners consider the effects of video games on students. In this current events lesson plan, learners visit selected websites to study video game ratings, their effects on children, and the violence in the games.
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Dorothy Day and Mohandas K. Gandhi: Catalysts of Social Change

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how Dorothy Day and Mohandas Gandhi were leaders for social change.  In this history lesson plan, students analyze the impact of these two leaders through several activities and group assignments.
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Individual Empowerment in the Face of Oppression

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate non-violent ways of dealing with conflicts by performing short plays.  In this philosophy instructional activity, 6th graders discuss how men can gain power in a non-violent manner similar to Gandhi's actions....
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Ahimsa as a Moral Force

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of Ahimsa. In this peace and tolerance instructional activity, students discuss Gandhi's application of Ahimsa and Satyagrah as they view the motion picture titled, "Gandhi." Students also discuss how...
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Satyagraha, Its Origins and Applications

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders study the steps and methods taken by Gandhi.  For this World History lesson, 10th graders create illustrations to represent these steps.  Students write a persuasive essay on these measures taken by Gandhi. 
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Gandhi's Non-violent Revolutions: Examining Tools to Make Non-violent

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners analyze Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent social change. In this nonviolence and social change lesson, students research a leader from the attached list who practiced nonviolent social change. Learners write their own poem...
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Abolitionists in U.S. History

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners read and discuss excerpts from the writings of Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass and Sarah Parker Redmond. They compare and contrast the views of the three abolitionists concentrating on the experiences and reasons for...
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The Power of Nonviolent Struggle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils identify how Mohandas Gandhi developed a nonviolent crusade for justice. In this nonviolent protest lesson, students watch segments of a documentary about Gandhi's reaction to imperialism in India. Pupils write essays that require...
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Dr. King and His Advice for Dreams Deferred

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars analyze Dr. King's public addresses and Langston Hughes' poetry as a study of the Civil Rights' nonviolent approach to making an impact. In this protesting lesson, students read poetry of Hughes and speeches by Dr. King as...
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Implementing a Civic Action Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars are provided with a six-step process for empowering students to plan and implement civic participation projects in the community. They look into solutions to community problems and seek ideas for actions project in...
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Center for Civic Education

Women's History Wax Museum

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Bring influential historical figures to life with a highly interactive and informative activity. Your class members will research important activists during the women's suffrage movement and then share what they have learned by role...
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Living Through Fire

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate the poverty found in Haiti. For this current events lesson, students research the noted Web sites to study Haiti's geography, history, and civil war. 
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Great Books: Kafka's Metamorphosis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the central image of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and use a strong symbol in a piece of writing. For this Metamorphosis lesson, students focus on the central image of the novel in a class discussion. Students create a...
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Conflicting Voices of the Mexican War

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Americans wanted to fulfill Manifest Destiny, and this pattern continued with the Mexican War. The resource specifically teaches about the Mexican War through a variety of exercises including a research project, group work, brainstorming...
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Talk Shows

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders are exposed to different types of media in order to investigate the tendency of being exposed to a set of values that run contrary to conservative values. They role play a television program in order to communicate the...
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What Are Bullying And Harassment?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders define the four types of bullying and define harassment. They complete a True/False survey, student notes, and question and answer.
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Analyzing Regional Conflicts Involving Terrorism

For Teachers 9th - 11th
This is a week-long lesson on analyzing the similarities and differences between sources of tension and terrorism in eight locations around the world. The class is divided into eight groups and assigned one of the locations to research....
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The Chocolate War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students scrutinize the story, "The chocolate War" by Robert Cormier for examples of nonconformity in the face of power. The nature of the relationship between students in the story is compared to the associations of the reader.
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Dealing With Death

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students watch and analyze a video dealing with the topic of death. They answer discussion questions, identify examples of how death is represented in popular media, write a poem, create a memory book, and write a letter to someone who...

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