Justice

About 4 million undocumented immigrant women live and work in the United States. They live in fear of job-site immigration raids and deportations, which result in personal and economic costs both here and back ...

Unwilling or unable to complain about working conditions, immigrants routinely suffer chronic problems brought about by pesticide use, harsh weather and the lack of proper equipment. Using primary sources, ...

These activities will help students make connections between the foods they eat every day and the harsh experiences of the undocumented female workers who play an essential role in bringing that food to them. ...

In these activities, students will imagine themselves in the role of these women and weigh the risks and potential benefits of their actions. In the process, they will develop an understanding of undocumented ...

This lesson is an excerpt from the accompanying teacher's guide to One Survivor Remembers , a teaching kit built around the incredible life story of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein. ...

For this lesson, students will use maps and graphs to explore some instances of environmental injustice.  Framework The Gulf oil spill disaster raised awareness of the ...

This lesson features activities that will make students aware of the roles that undocumented immigrants play in the harvest and processing of food and other necessary products, help them understand the status ...

I teach writing and drama for seventh- through 12th-grade students who are home-schooled, financially secure and white. Racial and religious stereotyping issues frequently come up in ...

Cynthia Delilice’s Under The Same Sky focuses on issues of immigration and migrant workers. The story is told through the eyes of a teenager who struggles to make sense of ...

This lesson explores the concept of fairness through questions such as: What is fair? Should all people be treated the same? What would you do if you saw someone treated unfairly? Students are encouraged to ...

In this lesson, students will deconstruct common myths about immigrants and the process of immigration in 21st century America. They will also have an opportunity to share their knowledge with the greater ...

This activity will help students identify similarities and differences between the U.S. Muslim population and the entire U.S. population. It will also help dispel common stereotypes about Islam. ...

The lessons that follow will start a conversation about material consumption.  Framework It happens in almost every classroom community: Someone has something someone else ...

This activity asks students to read and compare the language of selected Civil Rights legislation. Objectives Understand how a democratic society debates issues and ...

In this lesson, students will use the case of Park51’s Islamic Cultural Center as a starting point for a discussion about whether religious freedom is absolute and if religious freedom requires respect for ...

In this lesson students will explore the language of the immigration debate. First, students will learn the definitions of some of the commonly used terms. Next, they will learn the difference between a word’s ...

In this lesson, students will explore what teen rights actually are. They will also read about some recent cases where teens felt their rights were violated. Students will debate the nature of rights ...

In April 2010, an environmental catastrophe occurred in the Gulf of Mexico. A deep-sea oil-drilling rig exploded, and millions of gallons of oil continued to gush into the Gulf for several months. The disaster ...

I am an eighth-grade language arts teacher in Durham, New Hampshire. My students have grown up in an environment where there is very little exposure to ethnic, racial or LGBT communities. They are ripe ...

Sometimes students get stuck on superficial notions of identity, both in understanding themselves and in looking at their classmates. This activity uses literature to challenge stereotypes and help children ...

Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice is a series of 14 lessons. Each lesson focuses on a contemporary social justice issue. These lessons are multidisciplinary and geared toward middle and high ...

Objective Activities will help students understand how artists use titles to bring context to editorial cartoons  This is the twelfth lesson in the series " Using ...

Activities meet the following objectives: understand how a cartoon uses words and images to make a political statement learn about gender discrimination and Title IX ...

Activities will help students: understand the use of dialogue in editorial cartoons question why one group might blindly hate another group This is the thirteenth lesson ...

Activities will help students understand how artists use images to represent an idea. This is the tenth lesson in the series " Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice ...

Activities will help students: understand how a cartoon uses irony and caricature to make a political statement understand a cartoon in its historical context connect past and present debates about ...

Activities meet the following objectives: understand the importance of context in decoding an editorial cartoon understand how a cartoon uses satire to make a political statement ...

Activities will help students: understand how a cartoon uses idioms and puns (plays on words) to make a political statement interpret visual and written material in an editorial cartoon ...

Activities will help students see how artists can use cartoons to express their opinions about society and culture. This is the fifth lesson in the series " Using Editorial ...

People who are poor don’t have access to the kinds of resources—good jobs, high-quality education and health care, for example—that people with more money have. One thing they do have access to, unfortunately, ...