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PBS

Pbs Teachers: The Storm

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the impact of failures of communications systems on victims in the Hurricane Katrina disaster on the gulf coast in 2005. Evaluate how U.S. governments help citizens in times of crisis and how this storm impacted their procedures.
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Alcohol: Problems and Solutions: Prohibition: The Noble Experiment

For Students 9th - 10th
Prohibition ultimately was a failure, but this fact sheet gives you some interesting perspective into the temperance movement. Discover some of the outlandish punishments advocated for those who drank.
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Us Internet: Mischecanocquah/meshekinoquah (Little Turtle)

For Students 9th - 10th
This article begins with brief biographical data, but most of it is an address Little Turtle made to President Thomas Jefferson and Henry Dearborn regarding the American government's failure to live up to the conditions of the Treaty of...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Testing Fundamental Loads

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will conduct several simple lab activities to learn about the five fundamental load types that can act on structures: tension, compression, shear, bending, and torsion. In this activity, students break foam insulation blocks by...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: John F. Kennedy as President

For Students 9th - 10th
The Kennedy administration faced triumphs and failures only to end in a horrific manner. Read about the election, presidency, and assassination of Kennedy in this summary. Also included are references for further reading, questions for...
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American Battlefield Trust

American Battlefield Trust: Civil War Biography: Ambrose E. Burnside

For Students 9th - 10th
A biographical profile of Ambrose Burnside, a career officer who commanded Union troops in a number of Civil War battles with a mixture of successes and failures.
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Teaching Social Responsibility: Teachable Moment: The Spread of Nuclear Weapons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource includes three student readings that provide information about U.S. policy on nuclear weapons, the successes and failures of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the motivations that lead nations to seek nuclear bombs....
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Other

Workforce Education: Understanding Language Registers: Effective Communication

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The use of the appropriate language register or level of formality in a given situation can make the difference between a speaker's success or failure. This lesson teaches young scholars to recognize a range of language registers and the...
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Other

Nea Fine Arts Grant Program Guidelines

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site focuses on the Fine Arts. "The National Education Association (NEA) Fine Arts grants are awarded to fine arts teachers, through local NEA affiliates, to enable them to create and implement fine arts programs that promote...
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Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma Historical Society: Chickasaw

For Students 9th - 10th
The history of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma began in 1818 when tribal leaders signed the Treaty of Old Town, ceding their lands in western Kentucky and Tennessee. Years of negotiations with the U.S. government led to failure to...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Presidency of Andrew Jackson

For Students 9th - 10th
This Khan Academy resource provides information surrounding the Presidency of Andrew Jackson, including his successes and failures.
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The History Cat

The History Cat: The New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses Franklin D. Roosevelt's First and Second New Deals and the different programs that got people back to work and put food on their tables. Looks at the successes and failures of these programs and the criticisms leveled at...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Deregulation and the California Utilities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"The verdict is in: California's experiment with energy deregulation is not just a mess; it's a certifiable failure, according to everyone from the state governor to the very utilities that initially backed the scheme." This is how...
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Irac: Resistance Definition

For Students 9th - 10th
Resistance may be defined as 'a heritable change in the sensitivity of a pest population that is reflected in the repeated failure of a product to achieve the expected level of control when used according to the label recommendation for...
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History Link

History Link: Seattle General Strike, 1919

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the history of the Seattle General Strike in 1919. Find out what its objectives were and why it ended up as a failure.
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Code.org

Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: Persistence & Frustration: Stevie and the Big Project

For Teachers K - 1st
Help young scholars realize that failure and frustration are common when working on projects, but that doesn't mean that they should give up.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: This Is How We Roll!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students take on the role of engineers who need to design a roller coaster. They will explore the history of roller coasters, the different types, and the many things that can affect the success or failure of a roller coaster. Finally,...
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A&E Television

History.com: What Happened to Twa Flight 800?

For Students 9th - 10th
Minutes after its take off from New York's Kennedy International Airport, a Boeing 747 headed for Paris exploded midair over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island on July 17, 1996, leaving all 230 people aboard dead. The...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 9: The Odyssey

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This unit builds on student knowledge of the quest. Young scholars come to understand how great literature reflects life, and how in any journey (be it physical or metaphysical) patience is important for gaining wisdom and experience...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: Out of the Dust

For Teachers 6th Standards
Focused on the Dust Bowl and how families fought for a meaningful existence and survival, this unit will offer students different perspectives on how people respond to adversity, the lessons that can be learned from hardship and failure,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Donkey Hodie: Collection

For Students Pre-K - K
Donkey Hodie online resources provide many opportunities for educators to introduce or reinforce social emotional curriculum. In every episode of this puppet series for 3-5-year-olds, Donkey Hodie and her pals, Purple Panda, Duck Duck...
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A&E Television

History.com: How Many Times Has the u.s. Landed on the Moon?

For Students 9th - 10th
Among seven Apollo moon landing missions, only one did not land men on the moon. Apollo 11 lunar module on July 20, 1969 to become the first human being to step foot on the moon. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Test Prep: Mcat: Genes, Environment, and Behavior

For Students 9th - 10th
The way that you carry a conversation, respond to failure, form relationships with others, and generally behave is in part related to your genetics - but your world and life experiences also shape your attitudes and behaviors. This...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Frontline: Sick Around the World Teacher's Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about health care in other countries with this Teacher's Guide to "Sick Around the World." The FRONTLINE video explores how ?ve other capitalist democracies - the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland -...

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