- Community Through Photography [1]
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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 ... - Civil Rights and Americans with Disabilities [2]
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Classroom activities examining the Civil Rights Act and ADA. Despite its frequent omission from textbooks, the struggle for equity and inclusion for people with disabilities ... - Before Rosa Parks: Susie King Taylor [3]
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Georgia native Susie King Taylor was a teacher who traveled with the Union troops during the Civil War. The story of this unsung hero and her accomplishments as a young teenager gives new meaning to the term ... - Before Rosa Parks: Ida B. Wells [4]
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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. ... - Before Rosa Parks: Frances Watkins Harper [5]
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Frances Watkins Harper challenged power structures in the South, talking to free former slaves about voting, land ownership and education. Objectives Students will ... - Emmett Till: A Classroom Sonnet [6]
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A poetry lesson weaves together the past, present and future of Emmett Till's tragic story. Students will empathize with the ... - Developing a Media Portfolio [7]
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Lesson helps students understand how media influence their decisions. Popular media influence the development of self in young people. Teenagers view commercials and popular shows as ... - Holocaust Art Education Project [8]
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Holocaust study encourages discussion about what it means to be a responsible citizen. The Respect ... - The Literature of Bullying [9]
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Lesson includes resources for tackling the bully problem. Nearly one out of every three students between the ages of 11 and 18 has experienced some form of bullying. Our school chose ... - Collective Poetry [10]
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Collective poetry is an exercise designed to encourage students to work from a shared pattern in order to join their voices in a collective rhythm. We all have stories. In telling ... - Pre-WWII European Jewish Life Photo Project [11]
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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 ... - One Survivor Remembers: Twenty Pounds [12]
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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. ... - One Survivor Remembers: Antisemitism [13]
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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. ... - Clothing-Based Bias [14]
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In this lesson, students will explore the way clothing can influence our perceptions of one another. "Who you are is more important than what you wear." — Kenneth Cole, ... - 'Mathematics for Our Past' [15]
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Our students come from upper-middle-class homes and live in a sheltered suburban community with little exposure to anyone significantly different than themselves. Teaching tolerance is difficult when they have ... - Strong Women and Gentle Men [16]
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This activity is designed for use with our free curriculum kit, Mighty Times: The Children's March , designed for the middle and upper grades. This activity is based on ... - The Children's March: Viewing the Film [17]
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This activity is designed for use with our free curriculum kit, Mighty Times: The Children's March , designed for the middle and upper grades. Question and answer activity ... - New Kids on the Block [18]
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Activity brings home the difficulties teen immigrants have fitting into a new culture. My 7th-grade students were studying teen immigrants and the difficulties they sometimes have ... - From Chaos to Community [19]
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Teacher uses student suggestions to create ideal classroom environment. I was hired to teach 6th grade three days before school started at such a large school that they had formed it ... - Holocaust Education: Pink Triangles [20]
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Speaker shows significance of symbol while giving a face to gay "category." The guest speaker came to teach a lesson on World War II not found in our text. After ... - Traveling Trunk: The History of Hate [21]
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Artifacts of hate help middle school students see result of bullying, racist behavior. Slave shackles, a mangled piece of the World Trade Center's south tower, video of a ... - Bus Boycott: Historical Documents Highlight Integration Milestone [22]
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This collection of primary resources and corresponding activities sheds light on the endurance of peaceful protesters in Montgomery, Ala., who overturned an unjust law. On December ... - My Rights: Their Rights [23]
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Teach students about the right to safety with a project based on the 1989 Charter of Children's Rights. It isn't very hard to get middle school students thinking about ... - The Poverty Project [24]
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Help students remove prejudices they might have and dispel public myths regarding the "poor" through this five-month project. "Mom, I get into the dance for $4 tonight ... - Brown v. Board: A New Milestone Decade [25]
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Three ways to encourage students to continue the struggle for equality and justice in the U.S. In A New Milestone Decade advocate Michael R. Wenger asks students to continue the ... - What Responsibilities Accompany Our Rights? [26]
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This lesson looks at an important question students will face as citizens: What responsibilities accompany our basic rights? Overview The lesson begins with a class discussion ... - Brown v. Board: An American Legacy [27]
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Explore the history of school segregation, the Brown case and its relevance in the ongoing struggle for school equity. The Teaching Tolerance magazine article An American ... - Brown v. Board: General Discussion Questions [28]
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Discuss the impact of Brown v. Board and the current state of segregation using articles from Teaching Tolerance magazine's special anniversary section. Explore ... - Brown v. Board: What It Means Today [29]
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Examine the impact of Brown v. Board and the state of school segregation today using interviews with 14 Americans from Teaching Tolerance magazine. Delve more deeply into the ... - Brown v. Board: Where are We Now? [30]
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American schools are resegregating. What's happening in your community? "Where Are We Now?" is an essay from Harvard's Civil Rights Project that reminds us ...
