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March 2011
Women in History & More
Welcome to the new issue of the ProQuest Teachable Moments email newsletter.
This month, you'll find 21st-century, standards-linked lesson plans focusing on
Women's History Month, President Reagan, Title IX, greek heritage, our solar system, quantum computing, trust busters,
and more.
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SIRS & eLibrary | Content and Tools
Supporting Successful Student Research
Most secondary schools conduct formal research projects each Spring or Fall. These projects are designed to teach the research process, provide in-depth knowledge of a significant curriculum topic or issue, and develop student computer and Internet literacy—21st Century skills.
ProQuest's SIRS Issues Researcher and eLibrary (get trial access) provide the perfect 21st Century research solution for both students and teachers. Each has the content and tools that help teachers, librarians, and students accomplish the educational goals for formal research projects.
Get your copy of our new Formal Research Guide (PDF) today. This in-depth guide was authored by Carl Janetka, a former educator and the author of our newsletter lesson plans and dozens of additional integration guides found at proquestk12.com.
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SIRS Discoverer
Title IX and Gender Equity
A revolution for women in sports participation began during the administration of President Johnson and the proactive work of the National Organization of Women. It culminated with the signing of Title IX by President Nixon on June 23, 1972.
Students: How can participation in sports benefit girls and women in other ways besides fitness? What are some other issues of gender equality that you feel strong about and why?
SIRS Discoverer is the perfect place to start.
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eLibrary
Discrimination in Sports
March is Women's History Month. Discrimination against women in academics and in athletics was widespread prior to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, enacted on June 23, 1972.
The law states that "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
ProQuest's eLibrary BookCart learning activities provide a one-stop source of model research activities linked to any research topic.
You may copy this month's model, "Title IX and Women's Sports," and edit it quickly to add additional resources, student research directions, print resources, an optional quiz, and essential questions for critical thinking for learners to address.
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eLibrary Science
Quantum Computers
In a step toward a generation of ultrafast computers, physicists have used bursts of radio waves to briefly create 10 billion quantum-entangled pairs of subatomic particles in silicon.
This is one of a range of competing approaches to making qubits, the quantum computing equivalent of today's transistors.
ProQuest has created a BookCart learning activity for your students to use to explore this topic: "Quantum Computing with Qubits." It includes several examples of essential questions for critical thinking, ready for student research.
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SIRS Decades
Return to Scopes "Monkey" Trial Era?
A national survey of 900 high school biology teachers published in Science magazine indicates that the teaching of evolution in our schools has many school science courses returning to the era of the famous Scopes Trial of 1925.
Assign students to address the Document Based Question (DBQ) included with this topic: "Discuss the collision between traditional American values and scientific developments in the 1920s, a period that was characterized by the Scopes Trial's debate over the teaching of evolution."
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SIRS Issues Researcher
Women in Sports
While most famous for its requirement that schools provide girls with equal athletic opportunities, the Title IX law applies to all educational programs that receive federal funding, and to all aspects of a school's educational system.
Title IX benefits both males and females, and is the lynchpin of thirty-five years of efforts to promote and establish gender equity in schools.
SIRS Issues Researcher provides a variety of Leading Issues that focus on women's rights, Title IX, college sports, and more. Click SIRS Issues Researcher, select the VISUAL BROWSE tab, click Drugs, Health, and Wellness, then Sports, and finally Title IX.
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ProQuest Research Library Prep
Women's Pursuit of Gender Equity
After winning the right to vote in 1920, women began to take on greater roles in society, such as serving in government as Senators, Congresswomen, and as members of Presidential Cabinets.
Many women took advantage of opportunities in higher education. At the beginning of the 20th Century, less than 20% of all college degrees in the United States were earned by women. By the end of the century, the figure had risen to 50%.
Students: What are at least three examples of reproductive rights that women now enjoy? How do these rights help women achieve greater equity with men? What were and are the arguments against women being able to have these rights?
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eLibrary Elementary
Uranus and the Solar System
Most of what we know about Uranus was transmitted to Earth in 1986 by Voyager II. NASA originally launched this space probe in August of 1977 with the goal of reaching and exploring Jupiter in 1979. It took pictures and measurements of our solar system for years and sent them back to Earth by radio waves.
Students can learn more about Uranus and the Solar System using our new BookCart learning activity, "Planets and the Solar System."
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Grants for Educators @ Grant Wrangler
Learn how to publish this information on your website(s)
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Top 3 Websites
Each month, our SIRS team scours the Internet for top-quality websites for classrooms and libraries. Dive into the new month's selections: Flickr Tag Galaxy Browser, Art, World Languages.
SIRS Spotlights & Challenge Quests
The list of women who have occupied significant roles in American history and culture is varied and great: Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Blackwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Sanger, Sarah Palin, and Hillary Rodham Clinton are just a few.
This month, the U.S. observes Women's History Month, a tribute to women and their rich and complex history.
In the United States, an increasing number of women hold senior nuclear positions at the White House and the Pentagon, and therefore take a principal role in international nuclear policy, relations and negotiations.
Our SIRS Challenge Quest asks:
According to a 2010 Women in International Security survey, what percentage of senior positions at U.S. national security and foreign policy agencies are female?
Explore timely, history-related themes
inside Retroview and History Happenings.
eLibrary Curriculum Edition
Ronald Reagan: Centennial & Legacy
Last month, Ronald Reagan, our 40th President, would have celebrated his 100th birthday. To celebrate his life and legacy, HBO featured a special documentary—"Reagan."
President Reagan is specially revered as the modern hero (replacing Abraham Lincoln) of conservative Republicanism and his Presidency is often referred to as "The Reagan Revolution."
Students can learn more about Ronald Reagan and his legacy through a ProQuest model BookCart learning activity—"Ronald Reagan: Centennial and Legacy."
A pair of lessons for ProQuest Learning: Literature and History Study Center, which are available as part of a CE subscription, are also available.
CultureGrams
Make a Meal
March is National Nutrition Month. But food is more than just a way to satisfy our nutritional needs.
The food we eat can say a lot about our culture—it can tell us what foods are available, what we prefer to eat, and what types of food we can afford.
Start by having all the students read the Diet section of the Venezuela CultureGrams report, and discuss the different meals Venezuelans eat.
Divide the class into six groups, one for each CultureGrams region grouping: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
Assign the students one country to research from their region grouping. Assign the students to read through the Eating and Diet sections of their country's report and discuss within their groups the food available in that country.
(Full activity.)
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers
The Trust Busters
This year is the 100th anniversary of the Standard Oil anti-trust case brought by the federal government using the power of the Sherman Anti-Trust law.
This was the biggest and most viable anti-trust case in American history. Standard Oil of New Jersey was ordered to divest itself of its 37 interlocking firms that allowed it to function as a monopoly. This gave it the power to control prices and competition to the detriment of workers and consumers. Later, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal.
Assign students to address the following essential questions for critical thinking using your historical newspaper collection as a primary source for in-depth research: How were monopolies and trusts formed? Why? What motivated the public to demand that Congress stop these practices? Why didn't Congress have the foresight to initiate these reforms without public pressure?
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