Social Studies

'Si Se Puede!': Activity

In response to legislation that would have criminalized immigrants, thousands of high school students from across the country walked out of their classrooms and into history. The ...
Mexican American Labor in the U.S.: Lesson

Christine Sleeter and Carl Grant wrote this lesson to encourage students to explore policies and attitudes about Mexican and Mexican American laborers in the U.S. and develop informed personal perspectives of ...
Writing Persuasive Letters About Immigration Reform: Lesson

Latino workers from Central and South America, as well as Mexico, have long been part of the workforce in the United States. In response to calls for immigration reform, President G. W. Bush proposed a new ...
Why Frogs and Snakes Never Play Together: Lesson

This Pourquoi of Prejudice is used to promote tolerance in the classroom. The Plot A chance meeting of a family of frogs and a family of snakes in the woods one day ...
Classroom Community Building: Activity

Activities for all grades to build community in your class this year. Early Grades • At Kensington Avenue School in Springfield, Mass., teachers build community every day ...
Getting To Know Each Other (Lunch Day Mixer): Activity

The game centers on a question: "Could you be friends with someone who. . . ?" The book Getting to Know Ruben Plotnick (Flashlight Press, ISBN# 0972922555, $15.95), by ...
Playing the Bully Card: Activity Exchange

Teaching students how to stand up to bullying behavior, particularly when that means asking the teacher or another adult to intervene, can be a challenge. Sometimes, students lack ...
The Philosopher's Stone: Activity Exchange

In my classroom, we engage in an activity that allows students to voice their ever-growing opinions about fairness and justice in a manner that not only promotes writing and oral skills but also fosters the ...
What Can We Learn from a Box of Crayons?: Activity Exchange

Central elementary, a school in transition with an increasingly diverse student body, decided to focus this school year on diversity. I wanted to help the 2nd- and 3rd-graders ...
Confronting the -isms: Activity Exchange

Social justice lesson Teaching social justice requires helping students confront their personal biases because studies show that tolerance training can backfire if not accompanied ...
Friendship Without Barriers: Lesson

Friendship Without Barriers is excerpted from the teaching kit "Rhinos and Raspberries: Tolerance Tales for the Early Grades," a literature-based teaching kit. Objectives ...
Juliette Hampton Morgan: Being a Cultural Anthropologist: Lesson

Students learn the importance of being an ally through the story of Juliette Hampton Morgan, a white woman who lived in Montgomery, Alabama, during segregation. "Always remember ...
Juliette Hampton Morgan: Becoming an Ally: Lesson

Students learn the importance of being an ally through the story of Juliette Hampton Morgan, a white woman who lived in Montgomery, Alabama, during segregation. "Neutrality ...
Compassionate Communities: Lesson

Compassion lesson Thomas Aquinas is credited with saying, "I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it." As an English teacher, it is my ...
Journaling History: Sacagawea and York: Activity

As you read about Sacagawea and York, write a journal entry that imagines Sacagawea or York's first-person account. Objectives Students will understand first-person ...
The Numbers Behind Poverty: Activity

This activity, developed from materials found on Poverty USA , will help students gain added perspective on poverty when considering the mathematical realities of what it means to live in poverty. ...
The Business of Controversial Topics: Activity Exchange

Activity exchange for grades 9-12 to explore ways of discussing controversial topics. During my rookie year of teaching, several of my high school students secretly tacked up a small ...
Gender Stereotyping: Activity Exchange

As a school counselor on a K-8 campus, I prepare classroom guidance lessons for all students on topics of tolerance. At the beginning of a new school year, I like to introduce students to the adults on campus. ...
Making Cents of Privilege: Activity Exchange

I work with upper-middle-class students, and it is sometimes difficult for them to understand that not all children have access to the same opportunities they have regarding dining out, participating in ...
Coalescing Across the Globe: Activity Exchange

Activity exchange to explore global differences through pen pals. One of park day school's central values places knowledge -- people's ideas, histories, religions and ...
One Survivor Remembers: A Call to Action: Lesson

This lesson is an excerpt from the teacher’s guide of One Survivor Remembers , a teaching kit built around the incredible life story of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein. ...
Juliette Hampton Morgan: Discussing the Story: Lesson

Students learn the importance of being an ally through the story of Juliette Hampton Morgan, a white woman who lived in Montgomery, Alabama, during segregation. Objectives ...
Juliette Hampton Morgan: A White Woman Who Understood: Lesson

Students learn the importance of being an ally through the story of Juliette Hampton Morgan, a white woman who lived in Montgomery, Alabama, during segregation. Healthy racial ...
Violence Prevention: Lesson

Teaching Tolerance offers an extended classroom discussion with Internet resources. As a follow-up to National Youth Violence Prevention Week or an activity for Malcolm X's birthday (May 19), the activity ...
Activism and Legislation: Activity

This activity asks students to read and compare the language of two oral histories, asking them to think about prejudice, stigma and fundamental rights and freedoms. Objectives ...
Totally Us: Activity

Totally Us is a classroom activity developed from Totally Joe . Objectives Students will develop name biographies together in groups of four Students will see that ...
Cooperative Comics: Activity

Comic books are visual literature. This simple cooperative group activity allows students to identify confrontational issues within their own school and then imagine solutions. ...
Borders and Boundaries: Activity

Photocopy or create a large map of the school, including the school grounds and the cafeteria. Then have students identify places that cliques or self-segregating groups gather. ...
Community Through Photography: Activity Exchange

Reporting on their communities helps students recognize problems and find strategies for change. The communities we live in determine a good part of our lives. This is especially ...
Assessing Access: Lesson

Children often lack knowledge and skills necessary to interact with each other, especially when confronted with differences in mobility, hearing, sight, developmental skills or verbal skills. ...

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