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Social Studies Kids - Social Justice
Learn all about social justice. What is the history and significance of the Black Lives Matter movement? What is systemic racism and how has it affected the lives of Black people past and present? What is racial inequality? What is the history of the LGBTQ+ community's fight for equality? Th...
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Social Studies Kids - Voting
Learn all about the history of voting in the United States of America. Understand the tremendous obstacles and enormous sacrifices made by key people and groups throughout our country's history to secure the right to vote for women, people of color and indigenous people. What was the Women's Suf...
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Social Studies Kids - Communities and Geography - Grades 1 - 3
In this program, explore various communities and geography. What is a community? What are the different types of communities? What is geography? What are the different types of bodies of water and landforms on Earth? How does geography affect communities? The answers to all of this are cove...
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Social Studies Kids - Exploring Your Community and its Workers - Grades 1 - 3
In this program, explore your community and its workers . What is a community? Who sets the rules, keeps people and animals safe and healthy, maintains infrastructure and keeps everything running in a community? The answers to all of this are covered in depth with detailed graphics, diagrams an...
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Social Studies Kids - All About The United Nations - Grades 5 - 9
Learn all about the United Nations. How did the United Nations get started? How does the United Nations work and operate in the world today? What is the Model United Nations? The answers to all of these questions are covered with detailed graphics, diagrams, and exciting video, as well as on...
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Social Studies Kids - Student Activism
Learn all about student activism and how young people can make a difference in society and the world. From environmentalism to social justice initiatives, see how students are having a big impact on the world around them. Who is Greta Thunberg? Who is Amanda Gorman? What types of activists ar...
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Social Studies Kids - The Global Supply Chain
Learn all about the global supply chain and why it has been so heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. What is a supply chain and how has it changed throughout history? Why does it take so long to receive items I need? Can our current global supply chain be fixed? The answers to all of the...
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Social Studies Kids: Environmental Justice
Learn all about environmental justice. What does the term "environmental justice" mean? Why are Black Americans seventy-five percent more likely to live near hazardous waste locations? How has the Dakota Access Pipeline challenged Native Americans' pursuit of environmental justice? How does g...
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Social Studies Kids: Homelessness in America
Learn all about the seemingly-unsolvable problem of homelessness in America. How and why do people find themselves homeless? What factors lead to this? Is there help for people living on the streets? What is the answer to ending homelessness in America? The answers to all of these questions ...
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Social Studies Kids: Gerrymandering
Learn all about gerrymandering. What are the different types of gerrymandering? What is the history of gerrymandering? How does it affect elections? What is redistricting? What is the Wasted Vote Effect? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with detailed grap...
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Social Studies Kids: Black Land Reparations
Learn all about Black land reparations. What are reparations? What is Eminent Domain? Why were Black land owners stripped of their land? What is the significance of the recent return of the Manhattan Beach property once known as "Bruce's Beach" to the descendents of the land's original Black ...
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Social Studies Kids: Climate Crisis Global Heatwaves
Learn all about the recent changes to our climate in the form of global heatwaves. What is climate change? What is meant by the term "climate crisis"? What are the consequences of global heatwaves on the planet's ecosystem? What are oceanographers seeing with the rising ocean temperatures? ...
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Social Studies Kids - Mining Cobalt and Lithium for Rechargeable Batteries
Learn all about the unspoken human cost for mining cobalt and lithium for the rechargeable batteries we use in our cell phones and electric vehicles. What are artisanal miners? What health risks are they exposed to while mining? What does the term "blood cobalt" mean? What are solutions that ...