Resources for Educators
Local Election Toolkit
presented by: KQED
Letters to the Next President 2.0 asked students to share their views on an issue that mattered to them during the 2016 election. But students don’t need a presidential election to make their voices...
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- Tools/Toolkit
PBS Election Central: After the Election
presented by: PBS Education: Election Central
After a winner is announced in a Presidential election, the U.S. begins a peaceful transition of power from the President to the President-elect in order to sustain our democracy. How can being a good...
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- Activity
Resources to Gear Up for the Inauguration and First 100 Days
presented by: KQED
January 20 will mark the 58th inauguration in our nation’s history. President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign and subsequent election was inspired in part by widespread frustration with business as ...
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- Activity, Informational
Media Make #3: Argue with Images! Infographics (How-to Hangout)
presented by: KQED
As part of a special series designed for Letters to the Next President 2.0, this Media Make how-to hangout focused on the power of data visualizatio...
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- Professional Learning
Letters to the Next President at Youth Voices
presented by: Youth Voices
Find 10 steps students can follow to prepare for writing a letter to the next President. These classroom and out of school activities from Youth Voice...
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- Curriculum
Opinion Writing in Primary Grades: What qualities Do We Want in Our New President?
presented by: National Writing Project
Jean Wolph, the director of the Louisville Writing Project, offers an opinion writing mini-unit on qualities of the next president. It culminates in s...
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- Curriculum
Mini-Unit: Making the Case in an Op-Ed
presented by: National Writing Project
This mini-unit created by Linda Denstaedt of the Oakland Writing Project supports students as they plan and organize a purposeful argument.
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- Curriculum
Letters to the President: Students’ Voices
presented by: National Writing Project
If you’d like to read some of the student letters from the first iteration of Letters to the Next President in 2008, this document is the place ...
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- Informational
Literacy in the Digital Age: 5 Effective Writing Tools
presented by: Teaching Channel
Teaching Channel recently partnered with Student Achievement Partners on a blog series about digital literacy tools and their effective use by educat...
- Resource Type:
- Informational
Evidence & Arguments: Lesson Planning
presented by: Teaching Channel
This video from Teaching Channel contains an in-depth conversation on lesson planning for a High School English Language Arts class. Using a popular t...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Scientists Build a Hype Detector for Online Climate News and Commentary
Learn how climate scientists are engaging with climate journalism across the web by using the online annotation tool from Letters to the Next Presiden...
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- Informational
Should the Voting Age Be Lowered to 16?
presented by: KQED
They pay taxes. They have to abide by the same laws as everyone else. And many are old enough to work and get behind the wheel. But for teens under 1...
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- Informational
MAPP: Participatory Politics Workshops
These workshops for in and out of classroom contexts were authored by organizations and individuals in the Media, Activism and Participatory Politics ...
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- Curriculum