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Beginning Journalism

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This online educational resource is designed to provide students with an introduction to the field of journalism in a society that expects immediate, accurate and useful information. The goal of this resource is to prepare students to become practicing journalists and to increase media literacy even among those who do not intend to pursue journalism as a career. 

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Nathan McIntire

Artifact Analysis Worksheet - Intermediate

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The following artifact analysis worksheet was designed and developed by the Education Staff of the National Archives and Records Administration. You may find this worksheet useful as you introduce students to artifacts and primary sources of material culture, society and history.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Primary Source, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Sound Recording Analysis Worksheet - Intermediate

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The following sound recording analysis worksheet was designed and developed by the Education Staff of the National Archives and Records Administration. You may find this worksheet useful as you introduce sound recordings as primary sources of historical, social and cultural importance.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Primary Source, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Photo Analysis Worksheet - Intermediate

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The photo analysis worksheet was designed and developed by the Education Staff of the National Archives and Records Administration. You may find this worksheet useful as you introduce students to photographs as primary sources of historical, cultural and social information.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Primary Source, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Postcolonial Literature Lesson - Remix

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This lesson will introduce students to postcolonial literature--the major players, unifying themes, and major debates surrounding the classification of this genre. It also contains links to readings, discussion questions, and a collaborative project aligned to multiple Common Core standards.

Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lecture, Lesson Plan, Reading

Author: Sara Layton

Twenty First Century World: Crises and Solutions

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How do you teach world current events? From history textbooks? From the internet? From watching the news? The 21st Century World: Crises and Solutions, aims to remedy a scarcity of comprehensive analysis of world events. It recollects the recent past, analyzes the factors that destabilize and threaten human life, and examines sustainable and fair solutions. The chapters are organized in four parts: sustainability, demographics, literacy, and freedoms. Coverage includes the sustainability of land and water use, poverty-induced issues such as health, hunger, and homelessness, the global economy, population distribution and location, migrations and refugees, education and information and issues of violence that find outlets in oppression, protests, war, and terrorism.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Alice-Catherine Carls, Casey S. Ruggiero, Christina M.L Henry, Damon C. Thurman, Emmalea N. Rogers, Lilly A. Slipher, Luke M. Curtis, Madeline R. Hart, William C. Ramage, William M. Morris

Gram Crackers

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This lesson provides an interactive, fun way to learn proper grammar and punctuation. Utilizing multimedia and technology-based platform, the game will use engaging and relatable everyday scenarios to learn about proper grammar and punctuation for application in speech and writing. The DLO focuses on the target audience of female learners 15-24 years of age who will be exposed to real-world applications for the information which they are learning, explicitly tailored to increase literacy skills on multiple levels. The problems and scenarios that are given are realistic, allowing learners to refer to personal, relevant experiences to use as a reference when experiencing similar scenarios. For rationale and defense, this relevance is also reinforced in the instruction by Dr. Rodgers. This DLO is designed to take learners through a media-based “Leo City,” where they will experience different levels of grammar activities with each character they meet in the world. As the learner improves their skills, their character will also power up and gain powers to be able to gain access to new sections of the city, until they reached the end.

Material Type: Module

Authors: Tiffany Koeditz, Christy Sankey, Alicia Trevino, William Rogers, John Sapp, Stephanie Sellers, Chad Skudlarick, Claudia Ruiz

Why Vote? Voter Psychology

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Do we vote in a conscious rational way or are there other factors at play? Do we vote out of self-interest and/or for the greater good? In the run-up to an election, you read the manifestos, watch the debates, follow the political news on social media. You weigh up the pros and cons of each candidate/party, think about what matters to you and who is best placed to make that happen. You then turn up on election day and vote accordingly. You are a rational being and therefore vote rationally. Simplistic no? Reading through the academic literature on this subject is as complex as human psychology. Many other factors come into play if and how a citizen decides to vote. There can be forms of altruism at play but also forms of egocentrism (the voter's illusion); a sense of duty; the belief that my vote makes a difference and that others are more likely to turn up and vote the way I vote. Research has also shown that turnout increases in highly contested seats. Conversations, civic duty, social pressure can also have an impact as well as genetics. Some highlights from research are featured in this resource, part of the political science collection.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Jonathan Ketchell

Old Conference Presentations for ABE / HSED Teachers

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I have spent the past five or so years giving conference presentations on the topics of learning disabilities, technology, use of visuals and media. I am a seasoned teacher of Adult Basic Education within Corrections. I am hoping that someone can find a few ideas here they may want to build into their own curriculum. These are PowerPoint collections mostly. The conferences I shared them at were CEA, or Correctional Education Association and our State GED / Literacy Conference.

Material Type: Module

Author: Lori Koenig

Grand Tour of the Terrestrial Planets

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In the age of publicly funded space exploration involving several national space agencies, knowing about the highest mountain in the solar system is as basic to geospatial literacy as knowing about the highest mountain on Earth is to classical geography. This activity is a Google Earth grand tour of the terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, the Moon, and Mars) and guides students to explore atmospheres, magnetospheres, landscapes, and interiors. Each tour commences with an astronaut's overview from space, and then it zooms in on specific, media-rich placemarks, and ends with a concluding view from space. This is intended to help students develop a sense of relative position and relative size of features on other planets.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Declan De Paor

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