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| Date Added | Title | Description | Category |
| Thursday, May 28, 2009 | |||
| You Are There | Episodes of CBS Radio's famous 1940s series, saved by the Internet Archive. | Eyewitness News | |
| Friday, April 24, 2009 | |||
| What Exactly is a Trillion? | NPR's Planet Money Team puts this number into perspective. | How Big is a Billion? | |
| Thursday, April 2, 2009 | |||
| 24 Myths and Misconceptions About Evolution | from New Scientist, April 18, 2008 | Evolution is Both a Theory and a Fact | |
| Saturday, March 7, 2009 | |||
| How much did they make in 2008? | Page showing 2008 income data added to the activity How Much Do They Make? | How Much Do They Make? | |
| Jury Duty - a Teen on Trial for Murder | Read the Tough Choices instructions for presenting these situations to your students, then use this particular situation to let your students explore the case at the center of the film 12 Angry Men. | Tough Choices | |
| Friday, February 27, 2009 | |||
| Tax Returns Made EZ | updates to ready the lesson for tax year 2008 | Main Events | |
| Monday, February 2, 2009 | |||
| How Effective is Advertising? (answers) | statistics update | Propaganda in the Classroom | |
| Tuesday, November 11, 2008 | |||
| My Boy Jack and The Great War | Additional resources for teaching about World War I | Vinyl Records | |
| Wednesday, October 1, 2008 | |||
| How Much Do You Owe? | statistics update - the Federal Debt surpasses $10 trillion for the first time. | Interesting Numbers | |
| The State of the Nation's Finances | A guide from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation | How Much Do You Owe? | |
| The Top 100 American Speeches | American Rhetoric's list from its online speech bank. | Propaganda Resources on the Web | |
| Friday, June 27, 2008 | |||
| When one dies at the hand of a gunman, who most often pulls the trigger? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
| The Right to Bear Arms | In a hotly contested 5-4 decision (District of Columbia v. Heller), the United States Supreme Court found yesterday that the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives individuals the right to keep firearms. | Is that a Fact? | |
| Wednesday, May 28, 2008 | |||
| Buying the War | Bill Moyers' documentary explores how and why the major U.S. news media organizations proved so susceptible to government propaganda in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath. | At War with Iraq: the Propaganda Battles | |
| Sunday, May 25, 2008 | |||
| Unspun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation |
This slender book (by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Brooks Jackson) is an absolutely superb overview of the techniques used by political and commercial propagandists; as well as a guide to how one may deal with them so as to avoid manipulation. FactCheckEd.org (the authors' web site for teachers and students) is also worth the time you'll spend examining it. |
A Propaganda Bibliography | |
| Friday, March 28, 2008 | |||
| Tax Returns Made EZ | updates to ready the lesson for tax year 2007 | Main Events | |
| Thursday, March 20, 2008 | |||
| War Made Easy | Norman Solomon's documentary film and book examine the propaganda used by U.S. politicians and news media to create popular support for the initiation and continuance of wars from Vietnam to those in Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 21st century. You may also be interested in What is Propaganda?, a PDF slide show I created to use as an introduction to War Made Easy. | A Propaganda Bibliography | |
| Saturday, February 16, 2008 | |||
| Symbols and the Subconscious | This Adobe Acrobat PDF file contains a slide show designed to introduce students to the idea that advertisers use symbols to manipulate our wants. | Why People Smoke | |
| Hidden in Plain Sight | Part 2 of the slide show begun in the file above. | Why People Smoke | |
| Sunday, February 10, 2008 | |||
| Hugh Rank's Persuasion Analysis site | Hugh Rank was the first chair of the National Council Teachers of English's Committee on Public Doublespeak. His is a very rich site, chock full of information and teaching suggestions. | Propaganda Resources on the Web | |
| NCTE Doublespeak Award | Given annually as "an ironic tribute to public speakers who have perpetuated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered." | Propaganda Resources on the Web | |
| NCTE Orwell Award | Given annually to recognize "writers who have made outstanding contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse." | Propaganda Resources on the Web | |
| Saturday, January 5, 2008 | |||
| No Smoking | An hour from the Public Radio program To the Best of Our Knowledge on the role cigarettes play in our lives. | Why People Smoke | |
| Wednesday, January 2, 2008 | |||
| How Much Do You Owe? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
| Monday, December 24, 2007 | |||
| World Statistics Clock | Poodwaddle.com has created an absolutely fascinating page. There you can watch key measures of environmental and personal health spin before your eyes. | The World in a Room | |
| Wednesday, December 12, 2007 | |||
| Arithmetic, Population and Energy | Albert Bartlett, a retired professor of Physics from CU Boulder, has presented the talk captured in this video more than 1,600 times since 1969. His message is compelling. | Double, Double Toil and Trouble: Real World J Curves | |
| Friday, August 31, 2007 | |||
| MeasuringWorth.com | "Measuring worth is a complicated question." Find out how one goes about doing it. | Your Inflationary $, How Much Is It Worth Today? | |
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 | |||
| Hans Rosling's Gapminder | Watch the statistical, social and economic history of the world over the past 30 years or so come alive. For an overview that shows how to use the Gapminder materials, watch Rosling's 2006 TED conference presentation at YouTube. | The World in a Room | |
| Tuesday, May 15, 2007 | |||
| The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial | WGBH presents the L.A. Theatre Works play based on transcripts from the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial". | Evolution is both a theory and a fact | |
| Friday, April 20, 2007 | |||
| There Is Climate Change Censorship - And It’s The Deniers Who Dish It Out | George Monbiot's critical look at a key charge often leveled by Global Warming Skeptics. | Glaciers have been growing, not shrinking | |
| World Population Balance | Look at the effects of world population growth, and why we need to slow it. | Double, Double Toil and Trouble | |
| The University Exchange Focus on Global Intelligence | View a world population clock and much more. | Double, Double Toil and Trouble | |
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 | |||
| Tax Returns Made EZ | various updates to bring the lesson from 1999 to 2007 | Main Events | |
| Thursday, April 5, 2007 | |||
| How Much Do You Owe? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
| Sunday, February 4, 2007 | |||
| Alternative Uses for Iraq's Trillion | John Allan Paulos looks at spending in Iraq | At War with Iraq: the Propaganda Battles | |
| Sunday, October 15, 2006 | |||
| The Best War Ever | Lies, Damn Lies and the Mess in Iraq. Watch the YouTube video. | At War with Iraq: the Propaganda Battles | |
| Tuesday, October 10, 2006 | |||
| Dictionary Day Activities | October 16, Noah Webster's birthday, is celebrated each year by teachers with dictionaries. | Is that a word? | |
| Thursday, September 21, 2006 | |||
| When one dies at the hand of a gunman, who most often pulls the trigger? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
| Tuesday, September 5, 2006 | |||
| Food for Thought | Help your students picture world food and energy distribution. | The World in a Room | |
| Saturday, September 2, 2006 | |||
| How Much Do You Owe? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
| Wednesday, July 12, 2006 | |||
| Pour Better or Pour Worse: How Beverages Stack Up | What beverages do we in the U.S. consume, and what do they do to our health and weight? | How Effective is Advertising? | |
| Tuesday, May 9, 2006 | |||
| How Many Words in English? | Is the English language about to record its one millionth word? | Is that a word? | |
| Friday, March 24, 2006 | |||
| Eyewitness News | Turn your history students into TV news teams. | Creative Uses for Texts | |
| Tuesday, March 21, 2006 | |||
| Time Too Good to Be True | Physicist Daniel Kleppner's Physics Today column explores the future of the leap second and the physics of future advances in timekeeping technology. | How Long is a Second? | |
| The Bath, Michigan School Disaster | Despite what you may believe, the deadliest attack to take place at a school in the U.S. was not Columbine. | How Safe are Schools? | |
| Tuesday, January 31, 2006 | |||
| How Much Do You Owe? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
| Tuesday, December 6, 2005 | |||
| The History News Network |
Its mission, "To expose politicians who
misrepresent history. To point out bogus analogies. To deflate
beguiling myths. To remind Americans of the irony of history. To
put events in context. To remind us all of the complexity of
history."
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History | |
| Wikipedia | a controversial, user-written Internet encyclopedia | Reference Works | |
| the Free Dictionary | Reference Works | ||
| Sunday, October 16, 2005 | |||
| Measuring the World: From Material to Ethereal | a New York Times article on why we need updated standards of measurement | How Long is a Second? | |
| Monday, October 10, 2005 | |||
| What is the most common crime committed in the U.S.? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
| Thursday, September 15, 2005 | |||
| the Century of the Self | This 2002 BBC documentary is a video history of the use of psychological insights in the development of 20th century propaganda. | Propaganda Resources on the Web | |
| Monday, September 12, 2005 | |||
| Undoing Darwin | Find out why Americans are so uninformed about evolution science. | Evolution is both a theory and a fact | |
| Explore Climate Change Science | Glaciers have been growing, not shrinking | ||
| Friday, September 2, 2005 | |||
| Constitution Day Lessons | Prepare for September 17. | Government | |
| Thursday, August 18, 2005 | |||
| James Randi's Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural | Mark Twain is often credited with saying, "A lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on." In our mass-mediated age, that would have to become around the world several times. Given our oft-demonstrated inability to identify such lies, works such as Randi's Encyclopedia are must reads for those of us hoping to stay grounded in reality. | Links to Reference works | |
| Sunday, July 31, 2005 | |||
| Average Age Excel workbook | update | Averaging Ages | |
| Sunday, July 24, 2005 | |||
| Invention Timelines | The Change Game | ||
| Tuesday, July 12, 2005 | |||
| Ease History | Video Clips and Still Images from Twentieth and Early Twenty First Century U.S. History are here ready for use by students seeking to explore Presidential campaigns, major historical events, and core values. | History | |
| Friday, July 1, 2005 | |||
| How Much Do You Owe? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
| Thursday, May 12, 2005 | |||
| Glaciers have been growing, not shrinking. | Are global warming proponents wrong? | Is that a Fact? | |
| Wednesday, April 27, 2005 | |||
| Working-Well.org | If you, or someone you know, suffers from or is trying to avoid chronic pain from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or some other Repetitive Strain Injury, take time to visit this site. | Resources | |
| Saturday, April 23, 2005 | |||
| First Amendment Schools | This site, a project of the First Amendment Center, provides resources for students and teachers wishing to understand, "teach and practice the civic principles and virtues vital to democracy, freedom and the common good." | Government | |
| Sunday, March 20, 2005 | |||
| When a person dies at the hands of a gunman, who most often pulls the trigger? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
| Saturday, March 12, 2005 | |||
| School Safety Facts | How safe are students at school? A statistics update. | How Safe Are Schools? | |
| Sunday, February 20, 2005 | |||
| How Much Do You Owe? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
| Friday, January 14, 2005 | |||
| Oh, What A Lovely War | At long last, a cast recording of the 1963 musical play is available on CD. | Vinyl Records | |
| Saturday, December 25, 2004 | |||
| Words at War | Howard Blue's tale of U.S. radio propaganda in the 1940s. | A Propaganda Bibliography | |
| Thursday, December 9, 2004 | |||
| The Secret Sales Pitch | Do advertisers use subliminal techniques? If so, why? Read what attorney August Bullock has to say. I don't think you'll be disappointed. | Sex and Death Among the Ice Cubes: Subliminal Messages in Ads | |
| Saturday, November 20, 2004 | |||
| Evolution is both a theory and a fact | Why is it that only one third of Americans know that this statement is true? | Is That A Fact? | |
| Friday, October 15, 2004 | |||
| How Much Do You Owe? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
| Thursday, August 19, 2004 | |||
| Follow the race for November's magic 270 Electoral votes | The votes that count in the US Presidential election are those in the Electoral College. You and your students can now easily follow the race for that magic 270. | Election resources | |
| Wednesday, July 21, 2004 | |||
| Math in the Media |
"This site is designed to be used by middle school math teachers. The goal is to get students interested in math using 'real world examples;' things they can relate to easily." |
Interesting Numbers on the Web | |
| Sunday, July 18, 2004 | |||
| Cartoons for the Classroom | This web site is presented by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists as a repository of ideas for classroom use. Check it out! | Cartoonist for a Day | |
| Thursday, July 1, 2004 | |||
| How Much Do You Owe? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
| Friday, May 14, 2004 | |||
| The World in a Room calculator | Use this Microsoft Excel workbook to help you illustrate statistics on world population distribution, language speakers, religious affiliation, and income and age distributions. Instructions for using its calculations are at The World in a Room page. | The World in a Room | |
| Thursday, April 22, 2004 | |||
| Poll shows Americans still hold misperceptions on Iraq and WMD | Propaganda Works! | ||
| Understanding Evolution | a UC Berkeley web site for teachers | Scientific Illiteracy | |
| CAMY's Alcohol Ad Gallery | CAMY (the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth) is also a good source of research to share with your students. | Propaganda Resources on the Web | |
| Thursday, April 1, 2004 | |||
| First Choice 2004 | Excellent materials designed to help you and your students explore the issues facing the country in this year's presidential election. | Government | |
| The New York Times Learning Network - Election 2004 | Lessons plans and resources from the New York Times. | Government | |
| Friday, March 12, 2004 | |||
| Science News for Kids | This site is designed as a resource for kids aged 9 to 14 – and their teachers and parents. | Science News Sites | |
| Thursday, January 8, 2004 | |||
| FactCheck.org | This site advertises itself as, 'a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.' As we begin a presidential election year, it may prove invaluable to thoughtful citizens. | Propaganda Resources on the Web | |
| Friday, January 2, 2004 | |||
| How Much Do You Owe? | statistics update - the US Federal debt rises above $7 trillion | Interesting Numbers | |
| Thursday, January 1, 2004 | |||
| Scientific Ignorance Dooms Democracy | George Dvorsky identifies some of the social and political consequences of scientific illiteracy in this engaging essay. | Scientific Illiteracy | |
| Words of the Year, 2003 | An annual list compiled by the editors of YourDictionary.com. | If You Like Lists | |
| 2004 Banished Word list | The annual compendium of "Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness" compiled by the kind folks at Lake Superior State University. | If You Like Lists |
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