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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pen Pals: Wide Angle: Time for School

For Students 9th - 10th
Pen pals from Long Island, NY and Nairobi, Kenya exchange video messages about school, family and their hopes for the future.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Problems Facing Internally Displaced Persons Worldwide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars use video segments from the PBS series Women, War & Peace, as well as information from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the United Nations to learn more about internally displaced populations.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Making a Difference in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using segments from the PBS program: Wide Angle, this high school lesson explores the history and complexity of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and examines the roles individuals and organizations can play in promoting understanding and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Innovative Approaches to Healthcare in Mozambique and Beyond

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about limited health resources in Mozambique and innovative approaches taken there and in other countries to combat public health problems. They will learn about the importance of healthcare for women and children. The...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Extreme Global Makeover: Wide Angle: Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Modernization is an important issue in many places, including China and India. Students explore how it may impact such areas as society, politics, the economy, and the environment.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nanavi, a Girl From Benin, West Africa

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students use a chart to track character development and write a statement to express the ways in which a particular young girl from West Africa has changed over a three year time span.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Youth and Education in Afghanistan: Pulitzer Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the daily struggle faced by many Afghan students seeking an education, and the danger faced by teachers and schools working to provide these children with an experience many Americans take for granted.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Companion Curriculum: Girl Rising

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Girl Rising tells the stories of nine girls from nine different countries and the power education has to change their lives. The accompanying curriculum provides teachers with a unique opportunity to educate learners about the issues...
Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Malala Devotes Second Life to Girls' Rights: Pbs News Hour

For Students 9th - 10th
"Today you can see that I'm alive," said Malala Yousafzai in her first interview since surviving a Taliban attack that left her with a bullet lodged in her skull last October. "This is a second life," she continued, "And I want to serve....
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Malala Yousafzai Champions Education: Pbs News Hour

For Students 9th - 10th
This Daily News Story from PBS NewsHour Extra was created on October 14th, 2013 After surviving an attack on her life, Malala has recovered and has dedicated herself to the goal that every child everywhere will receive an education.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Girls Speak Out: Wide Angle: Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson follows girls in India and Benin to evaluate their access to education, a basic human right.
Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The First Lady's Blog

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow First Lady Michelle Obama as she travels to Jordan as part of the international initiative, Let Girls Learn.
Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Let Girls Learn: The White House

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about Michelle Obama's global initiative Let Girls Learn, a government-wide effort helping to educate girls everywhere.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Why Is It Important to Educate Girls?: Pbs News Hour

For Teachers 9th - 10th
When girls are allowed to go to school, they have a significant impact on their family and community. Students learn and think critically about the variety of reasons why it is in everyone's best interest to ensure that all girls, across...
Online Course
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: World History: Unit: Beginnings 600 Bce

For Students 9th - 10th
This virtual course from Khan Academy is a series of video tutorials and practice links that follow the world's prehistory through 600 BCE.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Focus on Baghdad: The Golden Age of Islam

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of Baghdad during the Golden Age of Islam.
Website
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: World History: 1750 1900 Enlightenment and Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
We have none from this URL but there are some among embedded videos, although not all. For example, we have the two on Haitian Revolution and some on Napoleon. But I couldn't find those on imperialism.
Website
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: World History: 1450 1750 Renaissance and Reformation

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to embedded videos and other information about World History: 1450 - 1750 Renaissance and Reformation including the The Protestant Reformation, Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment, Spanish and Portuguese Empires, Mughal rule in...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Key Concepts: Song China

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school or college level world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of the prosperity that occurred during the Song Dynasty.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: State Building: Technology and Cultural Transfers During the Crusades

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of the influence of Islam on technology and cultural transfers that occurred during the Crusades...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Key Concepts: The Spread of Islam

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school or college level world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge about the spread of Islam.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Focus on Rebellion: Peasant Revolts

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of the European Middle Ages' peasant revolts.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Focus on Cultural Interactions: Srivijaya Empire

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for world history, 600-1450 C.E. Students will learn about the cultural interactions that occurred in the Srivijaya Empire.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Key Concepts: Environment and Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of the environment and its influence on trade.