Students will analyze the significance of the break-in at the Media, Pennsylvania FBI office and the subsequent exposure of the COINTELPRO program.
Andrew McGill
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Lesson Plan: A Bridge Collapse and the Politics of Public Infrastructure
Students will learn about the 2007 collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota and examine political decision-making as it relates to public works projects.
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Lesson Plan: The Fruit Fly That Quarantined California
Students will learn about the 1981 Mediterranean fruit fly infestation that spread through California’s Santa Clara Valley and explore the benefits and drawbacks of different methods of pest control.
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Lesson Plan: Earthquake Readiness: How the San Francisco 1989 Quake Shook Awareness
Students will learn about the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake and discuss the scientific, technological, economic, and social challenges that humans face in mitigating the risk of earthquakes.
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Lesson Plan: Wolves in Yellowstone
Students will learn about the reintroduction of the gray wolf to Yellowstone National Park and explore whether humans have a role to play in ensuring that animals do not become endangered.
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Lesson Plan: A Search for Justice
Students will learn how President Reagan’s administration, trying to stop Soviet communist influence around the world, supported authoritarian regimes, and the impact that had in El Salvador and in the U.S. then and now.
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Lesson Plan: Psychology – Dissociative Disorder
Students will learn how a best-selling book and a popular movie about multiple personality disorder gave rise to a crisis of misdiagnosis and maltreatment, and how that now-debunked diagnosis has been replaced by a new one: dissociative identity disorder.
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Lesson Plan: The War on Terror and the Debate Over Torture
Students will learn about the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, focusing on the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” and the ensuing calls for accountability.
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Lesson Plan: Lessons from the 2004 Democratic Convention: Obama’s Speech
Students will learn about the most memorable moment from the 2004 Democratic Convention: the keynote speech delivered by a little known U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois named Barack Obama. The keynote speech of a political convention draws millions of viewers and has the ability to launch or sink political careers. Barack Obama wrote and delivered a speech that many political analysts believe propelled him to the Presidency four years later. This lesson examines not only Obama’s speech, but other examples of American oratory to demonstrate the importance of the spoken word in setting the direction of the country.
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Lesson Plan: Fire Safety and Chemicals in Our Clothing
Students will analyze how the chemical and physical properties of a substance affect its potential applications in our industrialized society.
