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Discover the Stories of New Americans The New Americans Web site offers an educational adventure for students in grades 7-12. The site supplements the PBS documentary series, which explores the immigrant experience through personal stories. Interactive sections of the site allow students to explore the immigration experience through a timeline, maps and activities in tracking family history and examining the effect of immigration on the nation. Eleven lesson plans involve students in activities such as analyzing factual data or conducting oral histories of first- or second-generation immigrants. For workplaces, schools and community organizations that would like to use shorter stories from The New Americans to increase understanding of recent immigrants, Active Voice and Kartemquin Films offer three brief, themed Video/DVD Modules and Discussion Guides for a nominal fee.

Incorporating Web sites and other online resources into the classroom allows teachers to provide students with up-to-the-minute data and resources, as many geography educators have discovered. C-SPAN's Classroom Web site attempts to fill that void for government and civics classes by giving users access to searchable video clips, some of which are available for download. The site from the cable-TV industry's nonprofit public-affairs service also provides standards-based resources-such as discussion questions, activities, and quizzes-for educators to use alongside the Web materials. Videos are grouped into six categories: principles of government, the U.S. Constitution, the legislative branch, the executive branch, the judicial branch, and political participation. Each category includes a featured video clip of a current event, along with a backlog of previous video clips from that category. Watching and downloading all videos requires registration, which is free for educators.

Get Students Involved in the Election Process The producers of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer are preparing the.Vote and the.Gov-a series of eleven 4- to 5-minute reports on the 2008 campaign leading to the inauguration of the next president. After Election Day, the series will evolve from the.Vote to the.Gov and look at the process of forming a new government, identifying key issues for the new administration and new Congress. The video segments, hosted by the.News journalists, will be provided free to middle school and high school teachers and their students throughout the fall campaign. Each segment of the.Vote and the.Gov is accompanied by online, standards-based activities that will give students the opportunity to create multimedia works: you.Edit allows students to rework and re-edit video material provided by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, and you.Report serves as a home for student-generated content (students' perspectives on policy issues and the election process). All segments will be closed captioned. An initial the.Vote report has been posted online, allowing educators to become familiar with the.Vote and the educational opportunities it provides. Regular production will begin in September and run up to the inauguration in January 2009.

Journey back in time and around the globe! This expanding collection of video segments, activities and lesson plans from public television and its partners brings alive selected topics in U.S. and world history

T he modules cover more than twenty topics that correspond to the major periods in American history and take into consideration the history standards, both required and advanced, to which high school students are held. Each module includes: a succinct historical overview learning tools including lesson plans, quizzes, and activities recommended documents, films, and historic images

The History Lab™ is an online template where teachers can build primary-sourse based lessons and activities for use by their students. Teachers can store their lessons in the History Lab database and retrieve or modify them at any time. The History Lab™ is free for use by all K-12 teachers and university professors who believe in the educational power of primary sources -- the raw materials of history -- and are seeking an effective, pedagogically sound way to incorporate them into their classes.

The Go For Broke National Education Center collection contains well-designed, engaging, standards-aligned, creative lessons that teach students about the experiences of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Beyond the historical content that is covered through research, videos, and readings, students have the opportunity to discuss key values such as self-reliance, teamwork, and loyalty. Highlights include a role-playing activity about volunteering for the military, an experiential exercise on teamwork, and an animated movie with documentary footage of the rescue of the lost battalion.

For teachers: explorations, classroom handouts, learning modules, lesson plans, resource guides
Multimedia:  E-lectures, Film trailers, Flash movies, games database, historical music.
Active Learning:  Conduct inquires, create exhibits, Do History through...
Interactive timeline
Visual History
Reference Room: Biographies, Book Talks, Chonologies, Maps, Museums, Speeches,  & more.

Find out what it means to come to the United States as an immigrant from the early 20th century through the early 21st century.

Lesson plans and teaching activities
How to teach with documents
How to collaborate with the National Archives

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