Let's Talk Trash!
This lesson is designed to instigate curiosity in the field of solid waste science and to incite a response to improve the environment.

Waste Disposal
This integrated unit on solid waste disposal uses data gathering, collection, and evaluation as a discovery learning method to expose students to environmental problems such as solid waste disposal.

Defining Issues
In this lesson, students work on a 'campaign committee' to define civic issues that are important to them and their community.

The Writing's on the Wall: Exploring Notions of Civic Responsibility
In this lesson, students examine a job-training/violence reduction program that removes gang graffiti in East Los Angeles. They then discuss issues confronting their own communities and propose community service programs to address these issues.

Give and Take
After reading about a problem, students identify alternative solutions, trade-offs made in choosing each alternative, and the opportunity cost of selecting each option. Students describe trade-offs and create a graphic to rep-resent alternatives and trade-offs.

Give Peace a Chance: Exploring Non-Violent Alternatives to Terrorism
In this lesson, students reflect on the 1979 occupation of the American Embassy in Iran. They then research the nations that are believed to currently pose a threat of terrorism toward the United States and speculate on ways in which these nations' conflicts with the United States could be solved through non-violent means.

In Memory: Exploring Issues in Designing Memorials
In this lesson, students examine the issues that designers and civic planners face in designing memorials to historic tragedies, wars and other events. They then design memorials dedicated to the events of September 11, 2001.

The Great Depression and the 1990's
By using the American Memory's American Life Histories, 1936-1940 documents, personal interviews, and the Library of Congress's on-line legislative information, students will be able to gain a better understanding of why the government takes care of its people and how this type of welfare state started. Armed with this knowledge, they can then evaluate the current need of government programs, such as welfare, Medicare and Social Security, on the federal and state level.

Changing of the Guard: Examining the Role of the United States in Democratic Transitions Around the World
In this lesson, students research case studies of U.S.-led regime changes around the world. They then examine the possible future democratization of Iraq through the historical lens of past experience.

 

World's Population
Want to see the world's population in "real time?" This site also allows users to do a "then and now" interactive population comparison!
 

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