This Disabilities Awareness Toolkit (PDF 637 KB) provides links to videos, teacher guides, and articles to be used in programming to create a greater awareness of issues that persons with disabilities face and how the United States works to ensure they have equal rights.
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Each February, the United States celebrates African-American History Month, also known as Black History Month. This annual celebration recognizes the achievements by African Americans and their central role in U.S. history. This Resource Toolkit (PDF 774 KB) contains lesson plans, videos, photos, exhibits, articles, and PowerPoint slides to be used at American Spaces to recognize the achievements by African Americans and …
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The Air Quality Awareness Resource Toolkit (716 KB) provides links to lesson plans, posters, articles, and videos to promote greater awareness around the importance of air quality. It also includes information and links on how to check local air quality conditions.
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Human trafficking, also known as trafficking in persons or modern slavery, is a crime in which force, fraud, or coercion is used to compel a person to perform labor, services, or commercial sex. There are nearly 25 million people currently victims of trafficking. The United States is committed to fighting it because trafficking destabilizes societies, …
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On Thursday, December 1st at 12:00 p.m. EST (Washington, DC time), take part in a U.S. Speaker Program Native American Heritage Month discussion to hear indigenous experts address key issues such as access to education, environmental stewardship, economic opportunity, and mentoring the next generation of indigenous leaders. Tune in to submit your questions and participate …
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This toolkit (758KB PDF) provides resources for you to create programs on issues related to climate change. The toolkit includes online courses, teacher resources, lesson plans, articles, videos, and English language learning content. You’ll also find educational films in our Kanopy video library related to this profound challenge.
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This Resource Toolkit (PDF 781 KB) is designed for programming at American Spaces to increase participants’ awareness of disinformation and their media literacy skills. The toolkit contains best practices, as well as links to lesson plans, videos, games, fact checking and news sites, and online courses.
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The “Beyond the Moon” photo exhibition may be used as part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Program that landed a dozen Americans on the moon between July 1969 and December 1972. Many thanks to the Public Affairs Section in Kuala Lumpur and their partner EngageMedia for sharing this fantastic photo …
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With the goal of assisting young readers in becoming savvy consumers and disseminators of fact-based news, the office of the Regional Public Engagement Specialist in the American Center in New Delhi developed Digital Citizenship 101 (DC101) (PDF 910 kb) , a series of media literacy workshops. Based on educational content available through the highly acclaimed Newseum in Washington, DC., the workshop series opens with …
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