Podcasts Offering Insight into Global Cultures and Events

Primary Source has created What Teachers Need to Know, a podcast series for educators who teach global cultures or world events in their classroom. In every compact episode, the podcast offers vital insight for understanding world cultures and current events so that teachers can facilitate deeper learning about the world with their students. Teachers will meet subject-matter experts and explore online resources that can help make a complex and dynamic world accessible for K–12 classrooms. The first podcast in the series, What Teachers Need to Know: The Middle East, offers insight for understanding the modern Middle East and North Africa. Episodes such as “Underneath the Veil” and “Syria, Explained” explore a range of cultural and political issues. “Media Literacy & the Middle East” discusses the importance of thinking critically about news, information, and stories related to the Middle East and highlights five activities teachers can do to promote media literacy in their classrooms.

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Multimedia Resources About the US Supreme Court

PBS LearningMedia’s resources from the award-winning PBS series The Supreme Court chart the Court’s unique evolution through archival footage, graphic techniques, and interviews with legal historians and experts.

Program Supporting Social Entrepreneurship in the Classroom

Cisco has introduced Global Problem Solvers: The Series (GPS: The Series), a new animated program with supporting activities that engages students with a team of teens from around the globe who use technology to solve real-world social, economic, and environmental problems.

Virtual Tour of the World-Famous Secret Annex

The Anne Frank House museum has partnered with Force Field VR to recreate the Secret Annex where Anne Frank and her family lived in hiding from July 6, 1942, until their arrest on the morning of August 4, 1944.

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