Coastal Clash: Analyzing Political Cartoons
"Coastal Clash" is a one-hour documentary focusing on the urbanization of California's coastline. The activities and lesson plans for the film "Coastal Clash" target students at the high school level and align with the California State Standards for Government. In this lesson plan students will evaluate the different elements of a media platform and how these elements affect the media message and will also create their own media productions.
Media as Platform and Tool?, Part I - Paula Goldman, Berkeley Political Science
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Back to school classroom decorating ideas for teachers 10 Articles
Articles with useful ideas to decorate your classroom.
Media as Platform and Tool?, Part III - Paula Goldman, Berkeley Political Science
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ICT / Computer Lesson ideas for every year level
These are a great collection of complete computer lesssons for every year level covering a masss of ICT activities. Really Great s
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I probably don't get as artistic as I should with my kids from time to time but the fact is tha
This 1:24 video is about Vesuvius burying the city Pompeii five feet under ash. The ash had impacted the people and still keep their form until this day.
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In this lesson, students will explore the importance of religion in community building in frontier America. They will also analyze the importance of religion in political life in the 19th century.
TED: Ideas worth spreading is a collection of dynamic speakers and short videos that can be used for a variety of educational purposes. While they are topical they are also so good that they could be integrated in many disciplines. These are, as TED says, "Riveting talks that are free to the world." Organized by newest, most watched, most emailed, most translated, these are too good to have listed in MERLOT as single entries. TED Conferences are too expensive for many of us to attend and by inv
This is an interesting learning activity from the Library of Congress on the subject of political cartoons. This would be appropriate for Social Studies, Humanities, Government , Journalism or History classes. Student are taught how to analyze and decode cartoons and about persuasive techniques often employed by political cartoonists to promote their individual message such as symbolism, exxageration and analogy. Students view exampl
This video shows some of the Roman's favorite weapons, including the gladius and the pila. The video provides insights into how the weapons were used and what the Romans wore. May be too violent for some students.
Can public speaking make or break a political candidate? Former presidential speechwriter, Curt Smith, explains the connection between politics, rhetoric, popular culture, and public speaking. Smith is a senior lecturer in the Department of English, and an acclaimed author, radio/TV host and columnist.
In this activity, students will research a political issue that is highlighted and discussed on the TakingITGlobal website. Students will pick one issue and write a one page satire on the event/issue. Part 2 of the assignment is for the students to create their own political cartoon using Photoshop or similar software.
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This teacher made video gives teachers and parents ideas about how to teach kids basic shapes like the square, circle and rectangle and basic colors, like red, orange, yellow and blue. (1:18)













