Sources and Links:
- Government/Civics/Propaganda
Bill Myers Campaign Ad Watch - Constitutional Rights Foundation (CRF)
An Exciting New Resource for California Teachers
CATeach is a new web page from Constitutional Rights Foundation devoted to resources for teaching social studies in California elementary, middle, and high-school classrooms! The page also includes special resources for schools with a law, policy, law-enforcement, or social-justice emphasis. - Lessons: Explore the Virtual Marsh
- US History and Math
Calculate how much you pay for these tax programs - Lessons: Learning from different perspectives
- Interruting prejudice ( institutional and personal ) (click to download)
- World History Lessons
Irena Sendler - World Peace Game and Other 4th Grade Achievements with John Hunter
- Plans for celebrating a family Fourth of July
- Founding Fathers
- Subject: I challenge you / Great Geography Lesson / Map Game
- Meet the Students of World Savvy
- The Right to a Future: Urgent Need for a New Lens and Lexicon for Conveying Climate Collapse
- End of the World The 12-yr-old who Rocked the Earth Summit
- History Lesson: Blacks in the White House
Good information and slide show for you, your children and grandchildren to view on the history of access for black people to the Whitehouse. - Celebrate Heroes and Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement
- ‘If There Is No Struggle…’ Teaching a People´s History of the Abolition Movement
- Perception - Tell Them to Come to Afghanistan and Make Friends
- Important News From KIDS
Innovative Program Engaging Young People in Addressing Hunger Issues Reaches Spanish-speaking Education Communities - The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century
- Classroom Zoom
- I Think: Thematic Units
- Exciting new civics web resource Courts in the Classroom
- Artifact Lab
- 10 terms not to use with Muslims (PDF)
- Future Stewards for the National Parks: Clean Air and Climate Change Activity Booklet
- Cuisine and Food cost differences in the world
- Migration and the Black Family: Pressures and Opportunities - 1450 to the Present ( PowerPoint Presentation )
- Video: Yes, They Can: Bronx students discuss Obama´s race speech
- Navajo Story Cord and People make a Difference
- Lesson for Poverty, game and cards (PDF)
- Lesson for Pre-Post Activity for Farming for the Future/Starvation or Survival
- Lesson for The Little Red Hen (Nicaraguan “Little Red Hen”, Mozambican “Peasant Rabbit”, and “The Tortoise and the Elephant”, and accompanying lessons)
- Lesson for African Numbers (PDF)
- Lesson On Islam
- Lesson for Landmines
Science:
- Science and Poli Sci
Climate Change/ Watch the whole world Connect the Dots - I Belong: culturally-responsive interventions for science instruction
- Islamic Science Rediscovered
California Premiere
Limited Engagement. Opens Saturday September 3, 2011.
Econ Lessons
- Economics and Human Rights
We Are Not Garbage re. Recycling plant working conditions in LA - Public-Sector Banks: From Black Sheep to Global Leaders
- History/Econ lesson through music: Woody Guthrie
- Free Trade Doesn´t Work: What Should Replace It and Why
- Video: Teach-In on US Economic Crisis - Use it to Do Your Own
The "National Teach-in to Take Back the American Dream" Special
US History
Starvation or Survival
- Impacts and choices farmers made from them in many countries
- A Simulation that can be set it in Central America, SE Asia or Africa or Women in Development in Africa. Very successful with middle, high school and adults at universities and community groups.
The question asked at the post session is : Who would these projects help?
Test Your Knowledge (FCNL)
Zinn Education Project
- Subject: First Myles Horton Education Award, New Monthly Column, The Daily Show and much more!
- Zinn Education Project
Teach outside the textbook 10 New Teaching Activities Now Available at http://zinnedproject.org
The Zinn Education Project has just posted 10 new teaching resources at our website!
These include a dramatic role play about the little-known Japanese Latin American internment during World War II; an article on working with Lewis Hine's photos of child labor; activities on the first-ever Indigenous People's Summit on Climate Change; and a role play that puts students in the position of being members of the American Anti-Slavery Society, who must choose the most effective ways to fight slavery. Visit the website to see all 10 of the new teaching tools we have available.
Lesson for Bullying And Anti-Bullying
- Visit facinghistory.org/safeschools and download "A Guide to the Film BULLY: Fostering Empathy and Action in Schools" and learn more about our efforts to promote safe school culture.
- One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom
- Bullying: A Case Study in Ostracism
- Bullying and Anti-Bullying in Personal Life & History
- “Stop the Bullying!” Table of Contents along with a sample lesson
Latin American Lessons
- Latin America-US Policy (click to download)
- US intervention in Latin America
- Timeline of US-Latin American Relations since 1823
- U.S. Intervention in Latin America ( end of Spanish American war to Great Depression )
- Aristide, coups against him
- Election in El Salvador
- Latin Amerin Us Foreign policy Chronic kidney disease
- Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee (click to download)
- From Zenaida (click to download)
- Honduras A Journalists No Man's Land (click to download)
- Interventions in Latin America (click to download)
- Independent Latin America Forms Its Own Organization
Lessons on Immigration
Constitution Lessons
Lessons on Bin Laden and Terrorism
Lessons: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lessons: Auschwitz
Lessons on Labor
- Lesson: Labor and Women's History
- How America's Unions Helped to Build A Middle Class for Workers in the U.S.
- About the Labor Educator
- THE WORLD OF LABOR — May 1, 2011 By Harry Kelber
- Remembering the Triangle Fire
- The Triangle Fire: Still Burning Before Our Nation
- The Triangle Fire: 100 Years Later
- Triangle Returns: explosive new video and report released
- Rethinking Schools: For this “teachable moment.”
- Labor Lesson: Did They Die in Vain?
Bill of Rights Institute ( BRI )
Subscribe to Bill of Rights eLesson/Email Newsletter
- Civics Trayvon Martin Shooting and Stand Your Ground Laws eLesson
- Supreme Court Issues Decision on Jailhouse Strip Searches eLesson
- Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act Goes to the Supreme Court eLesson
- eLesson on Understanding Presidential Nominations
- Twitter and Student Free Speech
- Hurricane Irene and the Constitution
- Constitution Day is coming - Are you ready?
- Constitutional Principles and the Death of Osama bin Laden
- The Founding Documents: A Three-Act Drama
- Are actions part of free speech?
Texas v. Johnson - Does the First Amendment give you the right to lie?
The Stolen Valor Act and False Speech - March 2011: Women´s History Month: Anne Hutchinson and Colonial Religious Liberty
- George Washington´s words on Religious Liberty | Constitution Courier eLesson
- The Healthcare Act, Federalism, and the Commerce Clause | Bill of Rights in the News Constitution Courier
- Check Out these Great Constitution Day Resources
Propaganda Techniques
Published on Truthout
Women's History
- International Women's Day/Fairness
- Subject: Women in Peace-Building: Peace Amidst War for Resource Control (Truthout)
- On International Women's Day, Celebrate Feminist Victories of 2011
- The War on Women in the Courts
- International Women's Day in Pictures: Protests, Celebrations
- In March Celebrate: Women's History Month
- Women Defenders
- History Review Lesson - Why women should vote
- Secretary Clinton's Remarks on Women, Peace, and Security
- When Women Make Peace (PBS video)
- Women and right to water (click here to download)
- Five more Women's History Lessons Grade 3-12 (www.loc.gov)
- Out of the Dust: Visions of Dust Bowl History
- Lessons for Women's Month/Day
The election year is a great time to celebrate Women's History Month (March) by teaching about women's voting rights. The Library of Congress lesson guide uses a rich array of primary sources--from lyrics to 19th-century songs for "young ladies" to a photo of picketing suffragettes.
For grades 6-12 - Women heroes
- For more women's history
The Choices Program: Teaching with the news
- The United States and the Iranian Nuclear Program
- The Costs of War
- New Afghanistan Videos for Your Classroom
- The United States in Afghanistan
- Resources to Teach about 9.11
- The U.S. Invasion of Iraq
- Russia's Transformation: Challenges for U.S. Policy
- Protests, Revolutions, and Democratic Change
- After Mubarak
- Egypt´s Uprising
- The Gulf Oil
- The Lessons of Iraq