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Higher 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
Ferdinand Movie Guide Spanish Questions English & Spanish Sub Plans end of year
This Ferdinand movie guide is designed for Spanish students while watching the film Ferdinand - ¡Olé! El viaje de Ferdinand in Spanish class. This Ferdinand film guide would be perfect for a bullfighting corrida del toros or Spain unit in Spanish class.The differentiated options mean you could use variations of this one editable Google Ferdinand movie guide with all levels of Spanish you teach. Use this Ferdinand film guide in Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Spanish 3, Spanish 4, exploratory Spanish, or a
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7th - 11th, Higher Education
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Tierra Incógnita Spanish End of the Year Activities Season 1 Guide Sub Plans
This Tierra Incógnita season 1 guide is designed for Spanish students while watching the show Tierra Incógnita in Spanish class. The differentiated options mean you could use variations of this one editable Tierra Incógnita guide with all levels of Spanish you teach. Episode 1 of this authentic show in Spanish from Argentina would make a great one-day sub plan for Spanish class. Plus there are now 12 additional editable activities to use with any episode of season 1. ⭐Get the Movie Guide Bundle
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Crash Course History of Theater and Drama COMPLETE SERIES ~ Distance Learning
Distance Learning - #DistanceLearningEpisode Guides for Crash Course Theater & Drama YouTube Series!Each guide comes with two versions (with and without timestamps), and a complete answer key.This product easy to use, no-prep product is a perfect last minute lesson plan, review activity, extra "filler" to keep on hand, substitute lesson plan, or homework assignment.Plus it's only $0.75 per episode!-Answer key included for every episode guide-Questions are a variety of formats and vary within
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Intro to Sociology Lesson for Social Control and Deviance | Movie Batman Begins
UPDATED 11/7/2022TEACHING THROUGH FILM is hands down the best approach to teaching Sociology! Description: I love to teach sociology through movies. I spent weeks researching a movie that best suits the topic of socializing the individual, until one day it hit me: Batman Begins. I made these movie questions and tried it out, and it was A HIT! The kids LOVE THE MOVIE and couldn't believe how much depth was to the movie. I adapted this from a book I once saw called "Cinematic Sociology" and that
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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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
America The Story of Us : Civil War (Episode 5) - Video Guide
Video study guide for Episode 5: Civil War of America The Story of Us. Movie guide comes complete with answer key. Questions follow the film in same order.Episode 5: Civil WarThe Civil War rages. The terrible new technology of the minie ball is devastating Union and Confederate forces alike. It is 20th century technology meeting 18th century tactics and the result is a death toll never before seen on American soil. Still, strict discipline and an unshakeable belief in their cause have welded Ro
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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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
Sociology: Movie for Social Structure Pursuit of Happiness
TEACHING THROUGH FILM is hands down the best approach to teaching Sociology! Description: I love to teach sociology through movies. I spent weeks researching a movie that best suits the topic of social structure, until one day it hit me: Pursuit of Happyness by Will Smith. When I rented it and watched it again, I realized that almost every concept we teach within this topic could be found in the movie. And because I hate to just show movies without determining for students what I want them to g
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9th - 12th, Higher 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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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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Coco Movie Guide and Day of the Dead Spanish - El Dia de los Muertos
This EDITABLE Spanish & English Coco movie guide has tons of resources and worksheets for all levels of Spanish classes and all types of culture classes. You will find all the resources you need for before, during, and after showing this award-winning movie. There are so many options for lessons and assessments and enrichment activitities in this one resource! Coco is the perfect movie to teach about the Day of the Dead and Mexican culture. Students of all levels love this film because i
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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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"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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Schindler's List Movie Companion and Quiz
A 51 question Multiple Choice Movie Companion that features questions presented in the order that they are presented in the film. The Movie Companion can also be used as a quiz and I have included SIX versions of it with answers scrambled and a key and grading strip for each one. The grading strip aligns with the questions on the student's paper and makes for very quick grading.I pause the movie and discuss some of the questions as they come up but any student who is paying attention to the fi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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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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