Fracking: In the End, We're All Downstream, by Julie Treick O'Neill 

A 9th-grade social studies teacher uses the Academy Award-nominated Gasland to help her students explore the environmental and social impact of fracking natural gas.

Classroom DVDs on coal and mountaintop removal mining, reviewed by Bill Bigelow.

Resources to help teachers and students delve into the economics and politics of food.

A film tackles the U.S. occupation of Japan. Teaching activities included.

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King Corn follows an acre of corn to market and a future as ethanol, food sweeteners, and animal feed. The journey anchors a curriculum on the international food crisis and how much choice we have over what we eat.

A review of the film American Pastime describes baseball under mass incarceration.

Remember that cult classic The Gods Must Be Crazy? Posing as multicultural, the film supports the very biases that it claims to critique.

A film about work and workers in Mexico, Maquilapolis inspires high school students. Finally, a film about sweatshops that views workers as more than victims.

We haven't written an article about it yet, but another film idea is to check out the widely acclaimed and award-winning Dirty Wars, by Jeremy Scahill, and use the teaching activities from our new book Teaching About the Wars (available as a PDF for only $7.99) to bring home the lessons from the film.

Enjoy the rest of your summer!