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Adult education social studies movie guides
Hidden Figures Movie Guide Questions (Multiple Choice Worksheet)
35 multiple choice questions to accompany the 2016 movie, Hidden Figures, directed by Theodore Melfi. Great to use with any science, math or history class. Teacher info included.
Questions are in order as they occur in the movie. Can be used with clickers or CPS systems.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Social Dilemma Netflix Documentary: 30 Question Worksheet + Answer Key!
The Social Dilemma- This is a video guide + answer key! (Hard copy and digital versions.)Technology, cell phones and social media leave us with a social dilemma for sure! Whether it be Facebook, Snap Chat, Instagram, Tik Tok or Twitter, all social media gives us reason to stop, pause and reflect!-----------------------------------------------------Here you will find:* 30 questions that follow along with the documentary* Answer key to make grading a breeze* An optional "less paper" version* Link
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Also included in: High School Health Curriculum: Full Year, Skills Based Health Education
13th Movie by Ava DuVernay Guided Documentary Questions: Profit Donated
This 13th documentary movie guide will help students understand Ava DuVernay's Netflix documentary. It contains 54 fill-in-the-blank questions that go along with the film, an answer key, and a writing prompt. Great for Black History Month and teaching about Black Lives Matter. A portion of the profit coming from the sale of this resource will be donated to Equal Justice Initiative: a group that works to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality.Click on the preview to l
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Harriet Movie Guide Questions in ENGLISH | Harriet Tubman 2019
Best movie guide out there! 27 Movie Guide Questions for the 2019 movie Harriet written in ENGLISH that include pre-listening questions, questions to answer during the movie, and reflection/analysis questions that can also serve as discussion questions after the movie. Includes movie images to help scaffold for diverse learners. Questions are spaced out to give students enough time to write answers down.Rated PG-13 and perfect for any classroom! Includes Answer Key.Synopsis:Based on the thrillin
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Modern Marvels: Panama Canal Video Questions
These movie questions are designed to help students grasped the important information from the History Channel video titled "Modern Marvels: Panama Canal." An incredible tale of drama, history, and action. See engineers tackle the most daunting project ever attempted. The video will serve as a great supplement to any history lesson about the Panama Canal and American Imperialism. Here is the link to the video:Modern Marvels: Panama Canal (episode 2)Topics explored in this movie: Theodore Rooseve
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Panama Canal: Graphic Organizer and Video Guide
Chernobyl Miniseries Episodes 1 through 5
Based upon the critically-acclaimed Chernobyl miniseries from HBO, this video guide accompanies all 5 episodes of the 5 part drama. The film is a painstakingly accurate account of the worst nuclear accident in human history. This can be used in a physics class for topics of nuclear chemistry, world history class for historical discussions of the accident and the Soviet Union during the cold war, environmental science class for the effects of the accident on the environment, or a biology class
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Jesse Owens - Race movie questions
Race is a 2016 biographical sports drama film about African American athlete Jesse Owens, who won a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.Directed by Stephen Hopkins and written by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, the film stars Stephan James as Owens, and co-stars Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons, William Hurt and Carice van Houten.
This worksheet contains 35 questions and additional information about the potential U.S. boycott of the 1936 Summer Olympics. A free Powe
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Apollo 13 Movie worksheet
This assignment includes 40 questions to be answered by students while enjoying the movie. This assignment helps keep students engaged and paying attention. Key included.
Apollo 13 is a 1995 American historical docudrama film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris. The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr., and Al Reinert, that dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, is an adaptation of the book Lost Moon: The Perilous
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
America The Story of Us: Division (Episode 4) Video Guide
Video study guide for Episode 4: Division of America The Story of Us. Movie guide comes complete with answer key. Questions follow the film in same order.Episode 4: DivisionAmerica becomes a nation at the moment a revolution in commerce and industry sweeps across the western world. The construction of the Erie Canal--an audacious feat of engineering achieved against the odds with black-powder and hard work-- results in hundreds of workmen being killed, but the pay-off is immense. This vast new
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Twelve Angry Men / 12 Angry Men Video Guide Original Questions
This video guide helps to capture the important vocabulary and central ideas that make this video such a valuable tool for use in any government course. I firmly believe this is a video that every high school student should see and this video guide will help ensure they are productive, engaged and gain valuable knowledge from one of history's greatest films!This product is also sold as part of the Judicial Branch Unit Bundle and the Individual Rights, Law and the Internet Unit Bundle! Each bun
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Three Branches Government Bundle
1917 Movie Questions with Answers - 1917 Movie Guide - 1917 Worksheet (2019)
1917 movie questions (released in 2019) helps keep students engaged throughout the film by providing 29 questions (plus 4 critical thinking questions after viewing) for them to answer to keep them on track. The 1917 movie guide comes with a key that has suggested answers provided at the end. The 1917 movie worksheet follows along during World War I as two British soldiers -- Lance Cpl. Schofield and Lance Cpl. Blake -- receive seemingly impossible orders. In a race against time, they must cros
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: History of Warfare Movie Guide Bundle | 1917 | Midway | Greyhound
Animal Farm (1999) - Russian Revolution Study: Complete Movie Guide
Animal Farm is an allegorical novel by George Orwell published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917, and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. This movie guide helps the students stay focused on the main ideas of the movie. It also helps students understand the characters in the animal farm and their allegorical equivalents (Old Major = Karl Marx, etc.). This movie guide comes with an answer key. Ready
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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America: The Story of Us (Episode 6: Heartland) - Video Guide
Episode 6: HeartlandThis movie study guide comes complete with answer key. Questions go in order along with the video. Summary of Video: In 1869, the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of America, more than 2,000 miles apart, are linked by continuous metal rails. The Transcontinental Railroad--the world's first--is the most ambitious human enterprise since the Great Wall of China, and much of it is built by Chinese laborers. The railroad doesn't just change the lives of Americans, it alters the entir
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Space Race Video Guide with Video Link (Cold War) + Google Apps Version
The Space Race Video Guide for National Geographic’s American Genius: The Cold War documentary is a fast paced cold war video that covers the struggle between the the U.S. and the Soviet Union’s race to the moon during the Cold War. The video begins with the Americans discovering plans to the German V-2 Rocket and the acceleration of the Soviet Space program over the U.S. Finally it ends with Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. This is a perfect addition to your Cold War Unit. Also included is a
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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"The Case Against Adnan Syed" MOVIE GUIDE BUNDLE
This movie guide bundle goes along with all episodes of the HBO docu-series "The Case Against Adnan Syed." Find out what happens after the Serial Podcast brought the potential injustice of the conviction of Adnan Syed for murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. This is a great follow-up activity after listening to the Serial Podcast in class!The docu-series is rated TV-14. View all episodes before buying to see if it is appropriate for your students.You must have an HBO subscription (or a ca
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
America: The Story of Us: Episode 9 (Bust) - Great Depression Video Guide
Video study guide for Episode 9: Bust of America The Story of Us. Movie guide comes complete with answer key. Questions follow the film in same order.Episode 9: BustIn October 1929, the economic boom of the 1920s ends with a crash on Wall Street. Between 1929 and 1932, $2 billion in deposits evaporate. The American Dream has become a nightmare. The stock market crash coincides with the start of the Great Depression. Unemployment rises to more than one-fourth of the workforce and as confidence in
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Amend Six Episode Super-Bundle (Netflix): Movies Guides for All Episodes
Amend: The Fight for America is a groundbreaking 6-part series hosted by Will Smith that explores the evolving, often violent, fight for equal rights through the lens of the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment. This SUPER-BUNDLE includes engaging movie guides for ALL 6 episodes. Each Guide is designed to highlight the episode’s big ideas, prompt rich classroom discussion, and cement student learning. These guides usually sell for $2.49 - by buying them in this bundle you save 50%! Each guide inc
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Planet Earth - All 11 Episodes Bundle - Worksheets & Keys - PDF & Digital
These Video Response Worksheets and Keys are based on the BBC documentary series "Planet Earth (Season 1)."(NOTE: These worksheets are based on the British version of Planet Earth [Season 1], narrated by David Attenborough. It uses the metric system and is, at the time of this posting, the version currently showing on Netflix and Amazon.)You will receive a zip file which contains a multi-episode bundle of all 11 Video Response Worksheets and Keys in PDF format and access to all 11 TpT Digital Ac
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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WIZARD OF OZ Populism Allegory - Film Guide - Presentation - Print & Digital
This film guide and editable Presentation explains the Populism Allegory and symbolism of the Wizard of Oz. Includes both print and digital versions. Includes both printable and digital versions. Look what buyers have said:this is an awesome resource that was easy to use, and worked very well for my class!Great resource! Most of my students hadn't seen the movie since they were a lot younger and they were able to really gain some new insight into it! Great analysis and discussions came about fro
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Vietnam War from CNN’s The Sixties Video Guide/Link PDF + Google Apps Version
The Vietnam War: from CNN’s The Sixties, Video Guide & Video Link covers the birth of the Vietnam conflict up to the resignation of Lyndon B. Johnson. Worksheet has 18 questions covering the 42 minute video. It includes a second copy that contains two video links for distance learning and absent students. An answer key is provided.* The second half of this documentary on Vietnam can be found here: Peace with Honor - Vietnam: from CNN’s The SeventiesSave Money! For this product, primary sour
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Economics and Business: Teach Entrepreneurship with the Pursuit of Happyness
The preview includes only 2 of the 8 questions that the students are to fill out while watching the movie. Before watching the movie, students complete the handout titled "Entrepreneurs," which explains a one-page quick write that students are to write regarding their chosen entrepreneur. Students then watch the hit movie "Pursuit of Happyness" in class. This movie is connected to capitalist entrepreneurs because Chris Gardner, after being hired by a brokerage firm, started his own brokerage
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Hamilton the Musical Guide + Answers | Hamilton Movie Worksheet (2020) Disney
Hamilton movie questions (released 2020) help keep students engaged throughout the film by providing 29 questions (plus 4 critical thinking questions after viewing) for them to answer to keep them on track. Hamilton worksheet comes with a key that has suggested answers provided at the end.Hamilton Movie Guide follows the original Broadway production of the award-winning musical that tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, first secretary of the treasury, blending hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadw
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Hidden Figures Movie Guide/Worksheet | NASAMathmetician African American Women
I used this worksheet to accompany viewing the movie Hidden Figures with my middle schoolers. Questions follow along with the story, hitting major plot points and raises issues of the Civil Rights Movement around the 1960's. Perfect to culminate a unit on space science, and the space race. Cross curricular topics including a historical look at women in the workplace, and struggles of people of color in the south mid-century. This is a perfect fit for showing during Black History Month/African-Am
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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This is America Video Analysis Activities Distance Learning
This is America by Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover) Common Core-Aligned Video Symbolism and Analysis Activities for Grades 10-12 - perfect for distance learning!This zipped file includes materials to help you use Childish Gambino's viral video to inspire important discussions in your classroom. The contents include:1. Brief history lesson presentation (editable Powerpoint and PDF files) - this 62-slide presentation covers the following topics: Black Codes and Jim Crow laws, Jim Crow minstrel
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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