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
PBS Reporting Labs Video Letters
presented by: PBS NewsHour Extra
Encourage youth to talk about election issues that matter to them by producing a video letter to our next president. PBS NewsHour Student Reporting La...
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- Activity
PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs at the National Conventions
presented by: PBS NewsHour Extra
Three journalists from the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs will be providing on-the-ground coverage at the Republican National Convention in Cleve...
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- Informational
Looking Back, Learning Forward: Supporting Project- and Problem-Based Learning with Historical Primary Sources
presented by: Educator Innovator
Historical primary sources can support learning that is grounded in authentic, open-ended problems of today. Join educators for a discussion about tea...
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- Professional Learning
Make a Video Letter with Your Phone
presented by: Educator Innovator
View this conversation about how to use your mobile phone to tell stories and write a video “letter” to the next President. Learn storytelling, p...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Letters To The Next President: Gearing Up To Teach About The Election
presented by: Teaching Channel
In this blog post for Tchers’ Voice, Christina Cantrill of the National Writing Project discusses how Letters to the Next President 2.0 can hel...
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- Informational
Make Cycle #4 Archive: Make a Spoken Word Letter
presented by: Educator Innovator
The fourth summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to channel our inner poet/inner performer to play with spoken word po...
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- Make Cycles
Make Cycle #3 Archive: Build an Argument
presented by: Educator Innovator
The third summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to embrace the power of argument as a means of supporting civic discou...
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- Make Cycles
Make Cycle #2 Archive: Make a Visual Impact
presented by: Educator Innovator
The second summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to take a moment and reflect where you are in the midst of all the p...
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- Make Cycles
Make Cycle #1 Archive: Remix to Speak Back to Media
presented by: Educator Innovator
We kicked off the first summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 by encouraging us all to remix to speak back to media. Here is archi...
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- Make Cycles
Public Forum Debate Lesson Plans
presented by: National Speech & Debate Association
This is a set of lesson plans for introducing students to Public Forum (PF) Debate, created by the National Speech and Debate Association. The 10 less...
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- Curriculum