Popular Bookmarks
Your Bookmarks

Food Waste/Biodiversity/Diversity in Appearance

By Working Class Teacher
Grade Level
3-5
private
LEARNING PLAN
Essential Question
  • What does it mean to waste food? Why is it a bad thing to waste food?
  • What happens to the food that we waste? How can we reduce food waste? Why does some produce make it to market and some doesn’t?
  • Why is it wrong to judge a “book by the cover”? How does judging based on cosmetic differences negatively impact both the judge and the judged?
  • What can we do to prevent this type of judging and celebrate the diversity and uniqueness of life? “We are all the same; we are all different.”
Texts
Literature

Eat, My Fine Coat!

Which are you more likely to notice: a person’s character or his or her clothing? Hoca has a witty response when the latter is true at a dinner he attends after a day of hard work.
by
Barbara Walker
Grade Level
K-2 3-5
Topic
Class
Social Justice Domain
Justice Action
July 3, 2014
Literature

The Fiery Tail: A Chinese Tale of True Beauty

The Peacock Fairy needs to choose an apprentice, but all of the peacocks look alike. To stand out, most of them decide to add things to their feathers, but the Little Peacock doesn't follow suit, and his actions succeed in catching the Peacock Fairy's attention.
by
Hua Long
Grade Level
K-2 3-5
Subject
Civics
Topic
Class
Social Justice Domain
Action
July 3, 2014
Teaching Strategies
Close and Critical Reading

Question-Answer Relationships (QAR)

QAR gives students practice questioning the text and identifying literal and inferential questions. Students learn to find different types of evidence and to rely on their own interpretation when doing close reading.
Grade Level
3-5
CCSS
RL.3-5.1, RI.3-5.1, RF.3-5.4
July 19, 2014
Student Tasks
Do Something

Community Mural / Poster Campaign

Students create a large-scale artistic depiction in a community space. As an alternative to the community mural, students can create a set of informational posters that reflect a diversity topic or social justice theme.
Grade Level
3-5
July 13, 2014
Plan Built By
Working Class Teacher

Sign in to save these resources.

Login or create an account to save resources to your bookmark collection.

LOGIN CREATE ACCOUNT
x
A map of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi with overlaid images of key state symbols and of people in community

Learning for Justice in the South

When it comes to investing in racial justice in education, we believe that the South is the best place to start. If you’re an educator, parent or caregiver, or community member living and working in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana or Mississippi, we’ll mail you a free introductory package of our resources when you join our community and subscribe to our magazine.

Learn More