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C Span Classroom: Teaching About Poverty Unit PlanC Span Classroom: Teaching About Poverty Unit Plan
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C-SPAN
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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1320L
Unit Plan

C Span Classroom: Teaching About Poverty

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Learning module in which students use current and relevant information to take a close look at poverty in America, past and present, and examine how the government should address it. Comprehensive multi-media learning materials include video, vocabulary preview, video, questions for discussion, deliberation activities and lesson plans.

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poverty

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domestic policy, c-span classroom: teaching about poverty, federal programs and welfare, war on poverty, poverty in the u.s., general information and definition, war on poverty, 1964

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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