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Analyzing Greenwashing

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SYNOPSIS: In this lesson, students analyze the concept of greenwashing of products. SCIENTIST NOTES: This lesson introduces students to greenwashing and then presents Trader Joe’s as a case study. Students are tasked with designing their own green product and an accompanying marketing plan. The lesson informs students how companies can mislead them with products that only seem environmentally friendly and gives tips on how to spot greenwashing. This lesson is recommended for teaching. (The only small issue with this lesson is that an advertisement for a VPN is included in the Trader Joe’s case study video, but that's just part of using resources from YouTube.) POSITIVES: -Students create a product and then see what effect their product has on consumers. This will show students how greenwashing occurs within marketing campaigns. -This lesson includes media literacy components. ADDITIONAL PREREQUISITES: -Teachers should be familiar with the term greenwashing and be able to explain what is regulated by the FDA and what is not regulated by the FDA. -Teachers should understand the term green is not regulated by the FDA, but the term organic is regulated by the FDA. DIFFERENTIATION: -The term greenwashing is an abstract concept, so it may be hard for students to grasp. Showing other examples of greenwashing may help students better understand the concept. -Teachers can show students different labels or advertisements and have students analyze whether they consider each example greenwashing or not.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Christa Delaney

Chocolate Sales by K. Turner (48.WCS)

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In this interactive unit, students are introduced to the various factors and elements that contribute to a company's success by creating a product to sell. Students participate in a mock business venture from beginning to end - from making the product (a candy bar) to selling the product. Some math concepts and principles include:using proportional relationshipssolving multistep problemsdetermining percents, markup, and taxFurther, students apply English Language Arts standards to their finished product, including:designing a marketing posterwriting, recording, and presenting a sales pitch

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Cathryn Chellis, Blended Learning Teacher Practice Network

Argumentative Writing: Are Social Networking Sites Good For Our Society?

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This lesson is designed to support English language learners when argumentative writing.  It is prepared using the topic selected by my students, “Are Social Networking Sites Good For Our Society?”  This lesson could easily be adapted to meet other topics of interest.  The lesson begins by reinforcing that when one is argumentative writing, the writer must choose a side and have a reason for choosing it. Then, the lesson evaluates others’ argumentative writing to see what it might look like. Afterward, the students have an opportunity to get comfortable with the argumentative writing topic they will be writing about with support of their peers and the teacher. Ultimately, with other support in place, students will write an argumentative piece to the best of their ability with a goal in mind. 

Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan

Authors: Katie Rojas, Oregon Open Learning

Revolutionary War Timeline Checklist

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This is a checklist meant to help guide students through their own Revolutionary War research project. Utilizing this checklist, students will be able to create a meaningful teaching tool (a timeline) to help others learn about the major events leading to the Revolutionary War as well as the major battles fought in South Carolina during the war. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment

Author: Hannah Frederick

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Choosing Sides: The Road to The Revolutionary War

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In this lesson, students will be required to to complete the Patriot vs. Loyalist Choiceboard. In the Choiceboard, students have to choose 3 out 6 options to help them learn about the economic, political, and social views of the side of the Patriots and Loyalists during the American Reovlutionary War. In addition, students should view the PowerPoint and answer the questions as they come to them on notebook paper. Students will allowed to research the content; however, I have also provided them with a series of sources to use as well. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: tim Robinson

Road to Revolution: 1763-1776

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This collection uses primary sources to explore the events that led up to the American Revolutionary War. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.

Material Type: Primary Source

Author: James Walsh

African American Protest Poetry, Freedom's Story, TeacherServe®, National Humanities Center

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Given the secondary position of persons of African descent throughout their history in America, it could reasonably be argued that all efforts of creative writers from that group are forms of protest. However, for purposes of this discussion, Defining African American protest poetrysome parameters might be drawn. First—a definition. Protest, as used herein, refers to the practice within African American literature of bringing redress to the secondary status of black people, of attempting to achieve the acceptance of black people into the larger American body politic, of encouraging practitioners of democracy truly to live up to what democratic ideals on American soil mean. Protest literature consists of a variety of approaches, from the earliest literary efforts to contemporary times. These include articulating the plight of enslaved persons, challenging the larger white community to change its attitude toward those persons, and providing specific reference points for the nature of the complaints presented. In other words, the intention of protest literature was—and remains—to show inequalities among races and socio-economic groups in America and to encourage a transformation in the society that engenders such inequalities. For African Americans, Some of the questions motivating African American protest poetrythat inequality began with slavery. How, in a country that professed belief in an ideal democracy, could one group of persons enslave another? What forms of moral persuasion could be used to get them to see the error of their ways? In addition, how, in a country that professed belief in Christianity, could one group enslave persons whom Christian doctrine taught were their brothers and sisters? And the list of “hows” goes on. How could white Americans justify Jim Crow? Inequalities in education, housing, jobs, accommodation, transportation, and a host of other things? In response to these “hows,” another “how” emerged. How could writers use their imaginations and pens to bring about change in the society? Protest literature, therefore, focused on such issues and worked to rectify them. Poetry is but one of the media through which writers address such issues, as there are forms of protest fiction, drama, essays, and anything else that African Americans wrote—and write.

Material Type: Lesson, Reading

Authors: National Humanities Center, Trudier Harris

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