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Use This Summer for Social Justice
Teaching Tolerance offers five suggestions for self-guided professional development as summer break gets underway. Go to the Classroom Activity

Lesson Plans: Holocaust Remembrance Week: April 19-26, 2009
Recommended activities for early, middle and upper grades. Go to the Classroom Activity

Lesson Plans: Nature, Race and Justice
Poor and minority neighborhoods are the ones most likely to face environmental hazards. These lessons help your students grasp the impact of environmental racism. Go to the Classroom Activity

Reporting on Environmental Racism
In this upper-grades activity, students use basic news reporting skills to explore the impact of environmental racism. Go to the Classroom Activity

Progressive City Planners
In this middle school lesson, students will create their own imaginary cities, deciding where to place amenities such as parks and libraries, as well drawbacks such as environmental hazards. Then they will compare their cities to the real world – where resources and hazards often aren't distributed fairly. Go to the Classroom Activity

Fair is Fair: Introducing Kids to the Idea of Environmental Racism
In this lesson, students will participate in an activity designed to simulate the inequity of environmental racism. They will also have a chance to explore various ways children can get involved in these issues. Go to the Classroom Activity

Standards for 'Honoring Labor, Honoring Chavez'
These standards can serve as a guideline to help you decide how this mini-unit fits into your own curriculum. Go to the Classroom Activity

Lesson Plans: Honoring Labor, Honoring Chavez
In advance of Cesar Chavez Day, this mini-unit will help your students understand the labor movement, past and present. Go to the Classroom Activity

United We Stand
In this activity for early grades, students will read a short biography of Cesar Chavez, be introduced to labor unions and reflect on how powerful it can be to speak up, with others, for change. Go to the Classroom Activity

Making Sense of the Employee Free Choice Act
Help your students understand the Employee Free Choice Act, a major change in labor law that is now being considered by Congress. Go to the Classroom Activity



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