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Resource of (mostly not-free) educational videos representing many different academic areas. -
1voteTwo different, paid, Constitution and American Government-related summer programs for teachers. A great opportunity to gain some teaching skills in knowledge in a great city while also receiving money for your effort!
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1voteThis interactive site presents diverse scholarship regarding race and pedagogy. The site is an academic resource intended to provide teachers, students, researchers and the interested public with on-site research summaries and citations as well as bibliographies of research and teaching materials.
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1voteA small Amish boy witnesses a murder in Philadelphia's 30th Street Station. The ensuing events lead to a great deal of cultural exchange between the Amish community in Lancaster County, PA, and the police detective assigned to investigate the murder. This film provides a great exploration of cultural differences, especially considering recent events in the Pennsylvania Amish community.
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1voteFrancie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive.
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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) web site for educators is an amazing resource for teacher and students of American history and civics. The site features everything from primary documents (original Brown v. Board of Ed. decision, Washington’s Farewell Address…all the good ones) to lesson plans for different era to interactive online activities. -
1voteDiscovering Justice is a project, housed at the courthouse in Boston, focused on teaching students about justice and the American justice system. The project offers programs for all age groups, of particular importance are their courthouse tours (and observing court sessions) for all ages and their mock trials and “Arts in the Law”, which teaches legal history through drama, for secondary student
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1voteA great source of information directly from the mouths and minds of Black women in the nineteenth century. It includes diaries and journals, letters, and testimonials of former slaves that were collected in the 1920s and 1930s.
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1voteA labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company. A great movie that can be used in lessons about unions and labor history - specifically challenges people have faced when trying to unionize workplaces. Also could be used for West Viriginia history and coal mining history.
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