Iowa Public Television
Social Studies
OCTOBER 30 - NOVEMBER 6, 2012
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Sometimes the hardest part of teaching a new lesson or concept is showing how the idea translates to the real world. This week, Iowa Public Television highlights resources that help show the main concept or idea, allowing your students to move ahead in their learning. 
Teacher's Guide
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Hoover Dam
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12

Rising more than 700 feet above the raging waters of the Colorado River, it was called one of the greatest engineering works in history. Hoover Dam, built during the Great Depression, drew men desperate for work to a remote and rugged canyon near Las Vegas. Find videos and lesson activities through the American Experience website.    

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Video/Web Resource
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Epic of Gilgamesh
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12

Using Invitation to World Literature, students can find modern interpretations, analyses, and performances of the Gilgamesh story.

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Video 
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Aborigines 
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5 

Watch this video to learn all about the Australian Aborigines and the history of their connections to the animal world. The video also highlights their unique way of leaving their mark through stencils of their handprints on the walls of caves.  


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Interactive Video
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Frontline: The Warning
Grade Range: 9-12

With this video timeline from FRONTLINE's The Warning, students can learn about bank regulation and the 1990s bull market that led to some of the financial collapse of 2008. 

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Iowa Outdoors: Asian Carp
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12

Learn how one invasive species of fish could wreak havoc on Iowa's lakes. 

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Bio Cube 
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 

All writing assignments require the writer to make decisions about what to include and what to leave out. The task seems especially daunting with biographies and autobiographies, when the author is trying to summarize an entire life.The Bio Cube activity asks students to take on that challenge and limits their information to what will fit on six sides of a small cube.

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