Cross-CurricularEase yourself or your class back into the learning mode with this as background music. Social StudiesIt took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies on average. When will our global population peak? And how can we minimize our impact on Earth’s resources, even as we approach 11 billion? A team of historians have been trying to solve some historical "cold cases" -- old crimes in which the guilty ones walked, and even more insidious crimes where a whole village may have been complicit. There are other mysteries too, about unusual cases from the Viking age to the Klondike Gold Rush. | Teaching with googleStudents can create their own book trailers on Chrome Books. Reading & WritingThey may be old be these grammar memes are still funny... So, sit back and enjoy fifteen of them in 60 seconds... Digital LiteracyStopping the proliferation of fake news isn't just the responsibility of the platforms used to spread it. Those who consume news also need to find ways of determining if what they're reading is true. |
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