JS Useful URLs
May 9, 2011:
Web links for the current issue!
(Click here for web links for articles in previous issues.)
NOTE TO TEACHERS: The following Web links relate to the main features in the May 9, 2011, issue of Junior Scholastic. Please prescreen sites before sharing any URLs with your students. Although all may serve as background information for teaching, some will be too complex or otherwise unsuitable for your students.
FOR "IS IT A SHOW OR AN AD?" PP. 6-8
- Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood fact sheets:
commercialexploitation.org/factsheets/facts.htm - Common Sense Media:
commonsensemedia.org/advice-for-parents - How Product Placement Works:
money.howstuffworks.com/product-placement.htm - Placing More Products:
broadcastingcable.com/article/458878-Twentieth_Placing_More_Products.php
- Food in Every Country:
foodbycountry.com - Hungry Planet: What the World Eats:
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952 - The Right to Food:
www.srfood.org/index.php/en/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1174-report-agroecology-and-the-right-to-food
- American Experience: Freedom Riders:
pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders - Civil Rights Teaching:
civilrightsteaching.org - Freedom Rides:
history.com/topics/freedom-rides
- Alexander the Great Biography:
notablebiographies.com/A-An/Alexander-the-Great.html - In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (BBC video excerpt):
youtube.com/watch?v=E9o07JqxM6M - In the Footsteps of Alexander (DVD):
amazon.com/Footsteps-Alexander-Great-Michael-Wood/dp/B0039208QW - 13 Facts About Alexander the Great:
ancienthistory.about.com/od/alexander/a/Alexander_2.htm
