Social Studies

Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice: Lesson

Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice is a series of 12 lessons. Each lesson focuses on a contemporary social justice issue. These lessons are multidisciplinary and geared toward middle- and ...
Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice: Exploring Identity: Lesson

In this lesson, you will analyze two photographs, each dealing with a different element of identity. This is part of the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice series. ...
Gender Doesn't Limit You: Publication

Six lessons that address a particular form of gender bullying that help students to take a stand against gender bullying. ...
Injustice on Our Plates: Publication

In 2010, the Southern Poverty Law Center interviewed 150 immigrant women who left Latin American nations in search of a better life ...
Health Disparities: Lesson

This lesson explores the concept of health disparities for socially disadvantaged groups (e.g., youth of color and LGBT youth). Students are encouraged to examine the causes and impact of these disparities and ...
The Freedom Riders: Lesson

In this lesson, students will use a primary source—an NBC news report from 1961—to investigate the Freedom Rides. The lesson will also explore segregation in the South and the tenets of nonviolent protest. ...
Standing Up Against Discrimination: Lesson

In this lesson, students will learn what constitutes as discrimination, how real-life teens have taken a stand against such acts and ways they can do the same. Framework People ...
What is Ageism?: Lesson

In this lesson, students will analyze their thoughts and feelings to see if they currently hold any biases toward people of different ages. They will then explore the experiences of people who have faced ...
Family Ties: Lesson

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 ...
Paying With Their Health: Lesson

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, ...
Vital Work: Lesson

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. ...
Acting Locally: Lesson

In these activities, students will review some of the problems faced by women who enter the United States without legal documentation, research programs in their state that address these problems and identify ...
The Economics of Risk: Lesson

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 ...
The Motivation for Movement: Lesson

In this lesson, students apply a geographer’s framework to the migration of women who leave Latin America and enter the United States without legal documentation. Students explore the motivation for movement ...
One Survivor Remembers: Intolerance Today: Lesson

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. ...
Environmental Justice: Activity

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 ...
One Survivor Remembers: Bullies & Bystanders: Lesson

This lesson reminds students that they, too, make choices about whether to stand aside—or stand up—when someone else is being maligned, bullied or harassed. In standing up, we honor not only the other person’s ...
Recognizing the Undocumented: Activity

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 ...
Act it Out: Activity Exchange

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 ...
Taking Action on the R-Word: Activity Exchange

Derogatory language is common at the high school where I teach. I call students out whenever I hear them calling names or using profanity, and I often get into deep discussions about ...
Treasure Chest for Change: Activity Exchange

It is a challenge to help students to learn not only about history but also from it. I use Treasure Chest for Change as the culminating activity of an ...
How Do We All Live Under the Same Sky?: Activity Exchange

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 ...
Quilting Our Diverse Classroom: Activity Exchange

Students create quilt pieces that tell the world something important about themselves in order to build an environment conducive to learning. Students developed a new camaraderie among each other that ...
The Only Boy in the Ballet Class: Activity Exchange

To teach about the importance of kindness, I first choose a story in which children are putting down others— for example, The Only Boy in the Ballet Class , by Denise Gruska, or Oliver Button is a Sissy ...
What’s Fair?: Lesson

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 ...
Immigration Myths: Lesson

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 ...
Debunking Stereotypes About Muslims and Islam: Lesson

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. ...
Wants Versus Needs: Lesson

The lessons that follow will start a conversation about material consumption. Framework It happens in almost every classroom community: Someone has something someone else ...
Who's Voting Now?: Activity

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

In this lesson, students will first learn about disabilities. Then they will learn tips for communicating respectfully with people with disabilities. Framework People ...

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