Classroom Resources

This activity asks students to read and compare the language of selected Civil Rights legislation.

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 continued to grow over the months.

It is a challenge to help students to learn not only about history but also from it.

I teach writing and drama for seventh- through 12th-grade students who are home-schooled, financially secure and white.

For this lesson, students will use maps and graphs to explore some instances of environmental injustice. 

Each year in my elementary art classroom, students learn about a diverse group of black men and women in honor of Black History Month (this activity, though, is relevant throughout the year).

The purpose of this activity is to discuss the bullying of LGBT students. It uses the Mexican tradition of El Paseo to begin that discussion.

Through songs, stories and paintings, students explore how and why communities tell stories about heroes and heroines.

As part of a yearlong anti-bullying program, “Be a Buddy, Not a Bully,” I presented this lesson to the pre–K class midway through the year.

At the beginning of each school year I extend an invitation through a letter to all my students’ families. I ask them to sign up for a 15- to 30-minute class visit to share a talent, hobby or anything else interesting about someone in their family. I call each of these a “Family Spotlight.”

Cyberbullying is a serious concern in today’s schools. Since it can happen to a student at home as well as in school, it can be more pervasive and traumatic for victims than traditional bullying. An anti-cyberbullying sign campaign is an effective way to fight cyberbullying through positive peer pressure.

This is the thirteenth lesson in the Reading Ads with a Social Justice Lens series.

This final lesson gives students a chance to reflect on what they have learned. Drama offers a wonderful way for students to make themselves heard. It also helps them synthesize their understandings of a topic. By working collaboratively to create their own advertisements, children will show that they are thinkers as well as activists.

This is the third lesson of the series, I See You, You See Me: Body Image and Social Justice, designed to help students think about their bodies and body image as related to broader issues of social justice and to explore the harm created from stereotypes.

Many math educators believe that learning about the multicultural history of mathematics can help a more diverse range of students achieve math success. Knowledge of their ancestors' contributions, proponents say, could enhance students' interest in algebra, for example, which was brought to Europe in books written by Islamic scholars from Central Asia, Arabia, Turkey, and North Africa. The following excerpt and activity, examines the origins of early North African number systems.

Exploring family roots and immigration.

Help your students take a critical view of advertising.

This lesson looks at an important question students will face as citizens: What responsibilities accompany our basic rights?

This activity is designed for use with our free curriculum kit, Mighty Times: The Children's March, designed for the middle and upper grades.

Examine the individuality of Jewish lives affected by or lost in the Holocaust, as well as how their communities were affected, through the finding and analysis of family photographs before and after the Nazi occupation.

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.

Ida B. Wells is best known for her activism in the anti-lynching campaign. She moved to Chicago in her 20s and was a major figure in suffrage and women's club movements.