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Fao: International Year of Natural Fibres 2009
An organization aiming to raise awareness of the importance of natural fibers. Plants and animals play an important role in contributing to food security and poverty alleviation worldwide. Find out about how natural fibers provide...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Independent Lens: The Calling: Film Discussion Guide
This discussion guide is designed as a tool to facilitate dialogue, and deepen understanding of the complex issues in The Calling, a film that follows seven young Muslims, Catholics, Evangelical Christians, and Jews on a dramatic...
Free Reading
Free Reading: The Ship Is Loaded With: A Game Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A fun classroom game that helps students come up with words that rhyme with a word given to them by the teacher. Students sit in a circle, the instructor gives them a sentence and asks what word rhymes with the last word. Students raise...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Put Some Blue in Your Green School
This learning project is designed to help schools become efficient water users and to raise awareness about the need to conserve water. Students will analyze the water use (indoor/outdoor) at their school and work with community partners...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Healthier Men, One Moustache at a Time
Adam Garone has an impressive moustache, and it's for a good cause. A co-founder of Movember, Garone's initiative to raise awareness for men's health- by having men grow out their moustaches every November- began as a dare in a bar in...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How I Responded to Sexism in Gaming With Empathy
Lilian Chen details her experiences with sexism in the gamer community and how she is now aiming to raise awareness for this topic in a way that doesn't shame male gamers. [7:00]
Other
Marsh Mission Coastal Correspondent
Follow CC and Rhea as they take their houseboat on a 1,000 mile journey through the wetlands of South Louisiana. Their mission is to document the beauty of the marsh and raise awareness of the problems that are destroying the beautiful...
Other
Biodiversity Project
Formed in 1995, the "Biodiversity Project," was created to raise awareness and educate the public on the connection between biodiversity and everyday life. General biodiversity questions are answered in the "What is biodiversity?,"...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Lowdown: Brief History of the First Earth Day and What We Can Learn From Its Success Lesson Plan
Earth Day grew out of the environmental movement in the late 1960s in response to a series of environmental disasters that took lives, marred natural beauty and threatened animal species. An estimated 20 million Americans participated in...
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Process of Socialization: Socialization
Explains what socialization is and its importance in personality formation, and how this process varies between cultures, resulting in the prevalence of different personality types. The socialization of children in different cultures is...
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Ohio Historical Society: Late Woodland Period
The Hopewell culture seems to have changed and morphed into a new society, a society that lived in villages and were supported by raising plant crops. Thumbnail images provide more information on the life of these Late Woodland cultures...
Purdue University
Clc Web: Exploring Transnational Identities in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost
A scholarly essay that discusses issues of identity raised in Canadian author Michael Ondaatje's novel "Anil's Ghost."
Other
Monterey Bay Aquarium: Seafood Watch Program
This resource is devoted to determining the types of seafood that you should and should not purchase, how fish are farmed and caught and what you can do to improve the awareness of sustainable methods of fish farming. Be sure to click on...
EL Education
El Education: Malaria
Students research world health and global diseases and create a comic and activity book to raise awareness of global health issues, malaria in particular. In addition, students started a fund raising campaign to raise money for mosquito...
McREL International
Mc Rel: What in the World Are You Doing?
For this activity, students decide on environmental concerns they have about their school environment, and work in groups to investigate an issue then report back to the class. The purpose is to raise awareness about how their school...
Other
Cyber Y Technology Center: Life on the Streets
A site researched and created by a group of youth in San Diego to raise awareness of the area's homeless issue.
CNN
Cnn en Espanol: Week of 10 28 13: La Casa Blanca Se Convierte en La Casa Rosa
In Spanish. Brief article notes that the White House was changed to the "Pink House" for one night to raise breast cancer awareness.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Rachel Carson and the Awakening of Environmental Consciousness
Resource for teachers and students on Rachel Carson and environmental consciousness in which author Linda Lear discusses Carson's work, Silent Spring, and how it changed public perception and raised evironmental awareness. Lots of...
Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy: The Value of Ecotourism
For this lesson, students role-play as cattle ranchers. They explore traditional culture and predicted economic outcomes to determine if they will sell or keep their land. They learn how raising cattle, combined with ecotourism, can be...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Marines Confirm Mistaken Identity in Iwo Jima Photo
The photograph has been ingrained in American culture since almost the moment it was taken - a steadfast presence in high school textbooks and an enduring symbol of U.S. perseverance. But it appears we've been wrong about Joe Rosenthal's...
Other
Amnesty International Usa
Amnesty International USA is a consciousness-raising organization for human rights. Its goals are lofty and may make many people uncomfortable as they read stories of grotesque crimes against human kind. This is an excellent site to...
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Rancho Camulos
The home of Ygnacio del Valle, an alcalde of Los Angeles and member of the California State Assembly. The ranch was known as the Home of Ramona because it is likely that the popular 1884 novel Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson was set there....
Curated OER
What Is Homeless?
A site researched and created by a group of youth in San Diego to raise awareness of the area's homeless issue.
Curated OER
Homeless Person Sleeping
A site researched and created by a group of youth in San Diego to raise awareness of the area's homeless issue.