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World101. Birth of the Cool. NDLA. How to Broaden Middle and High School Students’ Sense of History. They say that history is written by the victors.

How to Broaden Middle and High School Students’ Sense of History

Unfortunately, history as told by the victors is not a complete story. For far too long, people have accepted the standard narrative as the whole story. Five Principles for Thinking Like a Futurist. Thinking about the future allows us to imagine what kind of future we want to live in and how we can get there.

Five Principles for Thinking Like a Futurist

Educators - Circular Classroom. Cool Not Cool. Echoes & Reflections. GBD Compare. The Lily - girlhood-around-the-world. The Pudding. Pedagogiskt-material-engelska. Hidden America: Children of the Plains. How can you shop for fashion sustainably? How to approach teaching gender equality to boys and girls. Fatma Özdemir Uluç, who led a British Council-supported study into gender equality in Turkish schools, tells us how teachers can show children that boys and girls are equal.

How to approach teaching gender equality to boys and girls

Native American Cultures - Facts, Regions & Tribes - HISTORY. Many thousands of years before Christopher Columbus’ ships landed in the Bahamas, a different group of people discovered America: the nomadic ancestors of modern Native Americans who hiked over a “land bridge” from Asia to what is now Alaska more than 12,000 years ago.

Native American Cultures - Facts, Regions & Tribes - HISTORY

In fact, by the time European adventurers arrived in the 15th century A.D., scholars estimate that more than 50 million people were already living in the Americas. Of these, some 10 million lived in the area that would become the United States. Increasingly, Americans Prefer Going to the Movies at Home. The start of the summer blockbuster movie season has Hollywood hoping for the usual stampede to the theaters, but now more than ever, the place that most Americans would rather watch movies is under their own roof.

Increasingly, Americans Prefer Going to the Movies at Home

Three-quarters of all adults say they would prefer watching movies at home rather than in a theater, according to a Pew Research Center survey, up from 67% in 1994. The survey finds that more than seven-in-ten adults (71%) watch at least one movie a week, but the great bulk of this viewing occurs at home rather than in a theater. While the most popular way to watch movies at home is on broadcast, cable or satellite television programming, fully half of the public says that at least once a week they a watch a movie on a DVD or by pay-per-view.

OneWorld - Empathy in Action. The dark history of Native Americans. READY LESSONS FOR ADVANCED LEARNERS - CLICK HERE: - New Internationalist Easier English Wiki. Advanced learners can, of course, access any of these Easier English articles, and the originals, by themselves, but these Ready Lessons might encourage them to get interested in topics of global justice, or simply provide a structure for a lesson.

READY LESSONS FOR ADVANCED LEARNERS - CLICK HERE: - New Internationalist Easier English Wiki

Activities and Games. QUIZZES - New Internationalist Easier English Wiki. Try these quizzes - then look at the links to articles or infographics to check your answers: 1) How much do you know about homelessness?

QUIZZES - New Internationalist Easier English Wiki

- try this quick quiz with infographic to check the answers: 2) The Internet giants: Facebook, Google and Amazon - how much do you know about them, and how much we use the internet? Try this quick quiz, then check the answers on the infographic: QUIZ: Internet giants. Economics A-Z terms beginning with B. Student handout 5.3: Cases of human rights violations - Living Democracy. Oxfam Education. Activity 13: Literature and Human Rights. The following questions help to put written material in a human rights perspective.

Activity 13: Literature and Human Rights

Included are formal literature (e.g., poetry, fiction, non-fiction); educational texts (e.g., textbooks, manuals); media (e.g., print, electronic images, magazines, films, television); advertising (e.g., jingles, slogans), and commercial publications (e.g., promotional literature, pamphlets, logos, slogans). Dollar Street. World Happiness. Context.

World Happiness

Organização Youth For Human Rights: Vídeo Documentário A História dos Direitos Humanos, Informação, Notícias, Kit do Professor e Livros. English Articles for Upper-Intermediate and Advanced reading practice - interesting reading material. This is a collection of articles written by Fullspate and intended to be interesting to read and equally interesting to discuss.

English Articles for Upper-Intermediate and Advanced reading practice - interesting reading material

Newer articles or revised articles are listed in the first section below. Older articles (presented with the older website styling) are listed in the archive section further down this page. Use your browser's back button to navigate back to this page. Newer English articles worth reading. Fists of Freedom: An Olympic Story Not Taught in Schools. Stereotypes Exercise. Purpose. Mr. Breitsprecher's Career Activities. Career Activities Thinking about careers is fun - its also important. Here are some downloadable, printable "worksheets" that help organize ideas and apply different ways to think about careers.

These are .pdf files - you will need Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view and print. Lesson videos. Search. World Wise Schools fosters an understanding of other cultures and global issues by providing online educational resources based on the Peace Corps experience and facilitating communication between US classrooms and Peace Corps Volunteers. Lesson Plans Search Search by region, country, subject, or grade level. You’ll find ready-made lessons ranging from understanding the norms of other peoples to practical challenges of obtaining water. Stories Search. Linguistics and English Language Masters thesis collection. Global Words. You Are Not The Majority. What Do I Say to Students About Immigration Orders? @Tolerance_org The [M]uslim students seem scared and quiet.

One says family may flee country. These are six year olds. —A first-grade teacher’s tweet to Teaching Tolerance, January 30, 2017. Videos Of Allegory of the Cave. Tell a different story about Santa this holiday season. The Interconnected World: An Advanced ESL Class on Globalization. : Online Hate and Free Speech. Hate in a Free Speech Environment.

Lesson Privacy Dilemma. Find Lessons & Resources. Ch 11 Computer security and safetyethics and privacy. Stacie Gomm / Netiquette, Ethics, and Privacy. We are going to discuss three areas. You will create a new word document and copy and paste the questions in the word document. As you discover the answers to the questions through exploring the web pages, you will enter your answers in the word document. (The questions are found below the explanation part of this page.) Dollar Street. Watch Full Episodes Online of Time For School on PBS. Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice. eLesson Inspirations. Acervo do Conhecimento Histórico: Biblioteca feminista - 501 livros, Artigos e teses sobre o feminismo e a situação da mulher no mundo.

World Library of Science. How to prepare for your UN phone interview – Human Rights Careers. Children of Holocaust. Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff. Refinery29 presents Shatterbox Anthology. How We Share the World. This interactive graphic shows how the world is divided according to six different socioeconomic variables.

The land area of each country represents its share of the worldwide total. 26 Questions Every Student Should Be Able To Answer. What History Teaches Us About Walls. Building peace in the minds of men and women. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International (Doctors Without Borders) Amnesty International. Orientations politiques de la presse étrangère et française. ProCon.org - Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues.