NIOS: No Human Being Was Born Illegal
Overview: In this lesson idea, the short video, "No Human Being Was Born Illegal” is explored through teaching strategies such as pre-viewing, think-pair-share, word walls/clouds, levels of questions...
View ArticleNIOS: Cyberbullying
Overview: In this lesson idea, the short video “Cyberbullying” is explored through teaching strategies such as pre-viewing, anticipation guides, four corners, evaluating Internet resources, fishbowl...
View Article"Use Your Freedoms": Roxana Saberi
Video detailsRoxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist who was held captive for 100 days in Iran in 2009, urges students to appreciate their freedoms by using them to help other people.Saberi,...
View Article“Even If You are Only One Voice”: Roxana Saberi
Video detailsRoxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist who was held captive for 100 days in Iran in 2009, reads a passage from her book Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran. She...
View ArticleBuilding Bridges in Changing Times
From Facing History and Ourselves: The Jews of Poland, Chapter 3Like his father and grandfather before him, Henryk Goldszmit spent much of his life trying to bring together Poles and Jews. But in the...
View ArticleLet the World Know!
From Facing History and Ourselves: The Jews of Poland, Chapter 5The Great or Grosse Aktion began on July 22, 1942 and continued with occasional pauses until September 12, 1942. In August, during one of...
View ArticleFinding Common Ground
From Facing History and Ourselves: The Jews of Poland, Chapter 6Not long after the Nazis occupied Poland, many Jews began to realize that the political, social, and religious differences that separated...
View ArticleRefusing to Be "Frozen Out"
From Facing History and Ourselves: Fundamental Freedoms: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Part 1, Document #2 Length: 6 min 20 secFormat: MP3 Stereo 44KHz 80KbpsThe...
View Article"The Basic Thing We Must Do Is to Stop Generalizing about People"
From Facing History and Ourselves: Fundamental Freedoms: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Part 1, Document #3Length: 9 min 27 secFormat: MP3 Stereo 44KHz 80KbpsThe audio...
View Article"How Much Democracy Do We Want?"
From Facing History and Ourselves: Fundamental Freedoms: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Part 2, Document #1Length: 5 min 48 secFormat: MP3 Stereo 44KHz 80KbpsThe audio...
View ArticleThe "Four Freedoms" Speech
From Facing History and Ourselves: Fundamental Freedoms: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Part 2, Document #2 Length: 3 min 56 secFormat: MP3 Stereo 44KHz 80KbpsThe...
View ArticleEleanor’s Visits to the Displaced Persons Camps
From Facing History and Ourselves: Fundamental Freedoms: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Part 2, Document #7 Length: 8 min 32 secFormat: MP3 Stereo 44KHz 80KbpsThe...
View ArticleSocial and Economic Rights: Eleanor’s Speech at the Sorbonne
From Facing History and Ourselves: Fundamental Freedoms: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Part 3, Document #5 Length: 7 min 38 secFormat: MP3 Stereo 44KHz 80KbpsThe...
View ArticleReflections on Human Rights
From Facing History and Ourselves: Fundamental Freedoms: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Part 4, Document #2 Length: 4 min 19 secFormat: MP3 Stereo 44KHz 80KbpsThe...
View ArticleOutcasts United
Book by Warren St. John(Spiegel & Grau)Outcasts United is the story of a refugee soccer team, a remarkable woman coach and a small southern town turned upside down by the process of refugee...
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