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Month: April 2026

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Lesson plan; Lesson Plan: The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What if They Could?

April 27, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

Perhaps you saw this video last September, when it went viral: The two most powerful autocrats in the world —

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A Spring Challenge to Get Your Students Ready for Our Summer Reading Contest

April 22, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

Teens, choose a free article, photo, video or podcast from three different sections of The New York Times, then tell

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Teacher v chatbot: a journey into the classroom in the age of AI

April 20, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

Teachers struggling with AI in the classroom. AI is no longer a future issue in education. It is already sitting

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Lesson Plan: Guess the 10 Most Dangerous Animals in the World

April 17, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

Top 10 most dangerous animals in the world Which animal kills the most humans per year? If you guessed sharks,

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Former CIA director John Brennan in Washington DC on 23 May 2017. Photograph: Kevin

Lesson Plan: Impeachment, the 25th Amendment, and Presidential Accountability

April 16, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

How does the U.S. Constitution provide for the removal or restraint of a president, and how have those mechanisms been

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Are We Speaking Less? Language, Technology, and Human Connection

April 14, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

We’re losing 338 spoken words every day The spoken word is in decline, according to new research from the universities of Missouri-Kansas

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