Students will learn how the United States space program was fueled by Cold War rivalry, and how the U.S. government leveraged the program’s success in its public relations battle with the Soviet Union.
Economics
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Lesson Plan: Facing Eviction
Students will learn about housing insecurity during the Covid-19 pandemic and how eviction outcomes often came down to what county, or even city, a tenant lived in.
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Lesson Plan: Examining Housing Policy
Students will examine the concept of federalism and evaluate current models to address housing instability by considering social, economic and political implications.
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Lesson Plan: Amazon Rainforest Defenders Confront Violence, Encroachment and Politics (Econ.)
Students will learn about the history of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and explore the conflict between environmental interests and economic interests.
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Lesson Plan: Costs and Benefits of Decisions
In this lesson, students will examine the influence of positive and negative incentives (benefits and costs) on decision making and learn the ways people benefit and are challenged by working together. Students will first identify positive and negative incentives (benefits and costs) that influence the decisions of the characters in the story “Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type.” Then they will watch a video about workers’ efforts to organize a union at a Starbucks store to examine the influence of costs and benefits of the workers’ decision to unionize.
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Lesson Plan: Advocating for Worker Rights
Students compare and contrast the rise of union membership in the 1930s with the union movement of the early 2020s
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Photo Essay: Life After Welfare
Tianna Gaines-Turner, a former welfare recipient, still struggles to make ends meet with her family in Philadelphia.
