Sources and Links:
- Guatemala Genocide Conviction and a More Just Vision for American Continent
- Lerssons: Keystone Pipeline
• Do the Math video http://act.350.org/signup/math-movie/, or on YouTube
• Divestment campaign site: http://gofossilfree.org - Science / We Can Make a Difference / Solar & other projects in Haiti
Visit “If Pigs Could Fly- Haiti” For Environment, Science, Foreign Policy, Int´l Relations, Solidarity. - From Public Citizen, a United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report Use for Math, Econ. Social Studies (Trade, Foreign Policy, Government)
- Restorative Justice in Schools
LASTING PEACE By Robert C. Koehler - Free resources for National Poetry Month
- Teaching About Wars and resistance to them
- Media Literacy
- What young people have done!
5 Kids Bravely Fighting Christian Domination of Their Schools - Civll War Cartoon
• Iraq War
• Vietnam War - War Veteran Cartoons and Comics
- Thinking Out of the Box
• What is the focus of your textbooks: wars, civil resistance struggles??
• Vietnam Vets poems/cartoons - Bay Area Social Studies Professional Development Event
- Lessons/Learning from the Past to safeguard the Present
- Lessons/Environment/Fracking
Don´t Frack with Us: Our Bodies, the World´s Water - Lessons on Interdependence
The Cost of Biofuels in Guatemala
This article and slide show about bio-fuels grown in Guatemala is really disturbing. Be sure to look at the slide show to see the story. The Guatemalan farmers ordinarily raised corn for eating. Now they raise it for sale for gas for cars that they do not drive. If they have to buy corn for food, it is double what it was last year. Credit: Richard Perry/The New York Times - American Public Health Association statement against military recruitment in schools.
- Lessons: Honoring Howard Zinn's Life by Teaching People´s History
- Being An American: High School Edition with English Language Learner-Guide
- Lessons: If the world were a village of 100 people/with photos (pps)
- The Living New Deal
Congress to Postal Service: “Drop dead!” - Zinn Education Project
Stealing and Selling Nature: Why We Need to Reclaim “the Commons” in the Curriculum — Read and Share - Art Lessons: Hands
- The Napalm Ladies / local history: AKA “THE HOUSEWIFE TERRORISTS” By Jennifer Tynes
- Lessons on History and Foreign Policy:
It's Not About Religion: A Conversation With Author and Middle East Expert Gregory Harms (Truthout)
Divide class into groups of three or four.
Give each group the intro and a question and answer to flesh out with specifics, further questions. After each group has shared with the class, give them another question/response to analyze and share.Then ask them to write any new insights or information &/or opinion they's gained from this process. - Video link: corporate personhood
- Lesson - Lawrence Anthony, Elephant Whisperer
- Lesson: Reagan´s quotes on nuclear weapons
- National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing
- Social Studies Lessons: Citizenship Quiz
This test is not an easy one. The web site reports that college professors average about 55%.
The average American 49%. Take your time and see how you measure up.Click for Quiz - Ten Rules for Hard Times
- Lessons: Street children
For Cambodian Street Kids, Friends International Works to Redefine Normal - Lessons: World History, Environment, Current Events, Guatemala
- 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
- 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. - ‘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
Lessons on Immigration
- Bill of Rights Institute Immigration eLesson
This lesson will look at previous immigration laws, and highlight the constitutional issues that have arisen out of immigration policy. - Border Militarization Study Guide
- Let´s Stop Making Migration a Crime
- Video of Cornell West goes to Arizona
- Take our quiz: What century are they from?
- History is repeating itself. Can you tell the difference?
- A poem on Immigration
Science:
- Science / Climate Change
- Let´s Stop Hiding Behind Recycling By George Monbiot, Guardian UK
- Climate Change leaders and Actions
- Our Climate Is Headed Toward “Extremely Dangerous” or “Catastrophic:” Here´s Our Best Off Plan For Staving Off Total Disaster
- Science/CLimate Change - Changing the Climate in School
- Science and Poli Sci: Watch the whole world Connect the Dots
- Title: A Year with the Urban Gray Fox - Information regarding Bill Leikam´s Gray Fox presentation
- Do You Know What You´re Eating?
- New Report Proves the Endangered Species Act Works
- I Belong: culturally-responsive interventions for science instruction
- Islamic Science Rediscovered
California Premiere
Limited Engagement. Opens Saturday September 3, 2011.
Rethinking Schools
Enjoy these articles, freely available to all friends of Rethinking Schools.
- Dirty Oil and Shovel-Ready Jobs: A Role Play on Tar Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline, by Abby Mac Phail
- Got Coal? Teaching About the Most Dangerous Rock in America, by Bill Bigelow
- ‘Don´t Take Our Voices Away’—A Role Play on the Indigenous People´s Global Summit on Climate Change, by Julie Treick O´Neill and Tim Swinehart
- A Message from a Black Mom to Her Son, by Dyan Watson
- The Big One: Teaching About Climate Change, by Bill Bigelow
- A Pedagogy for Ecology, by Ann Pelo
- “My Family´s Not from Africa—We Come from North Carolina!” Teaching Slavery in Context, by Waahida Mbatha
- Five Years After the Levees Broke: Bearing Witness Through Poetry, by Renée Watson
Constitution Lessons
Econ Lessons
- Economics/Math:
The U.S. spends 57% of its discretionary budget on the military - spending only:
6% on Education
6% on Government
5% on Veterans Benefits
5% on Health
3% on Energy & Environment
Source 1 Source 2 Source 3 - Ecuador´s New Deal: Nothing Succeeds Like Success
- The Great Tax-Cut Experiment
- Some Politicians Were Not Paying Attention in Class
- 9 Greedy CEOs Trying to Shred the Safety Net While Pigging Out on Corporate Welfare
- Campaigns/ Who is the Middle Class according to Politicians?
- The Myth That Japan Is Broke: The World´s Largest “Debtor” Is Now the World´s Largest Creditor
- Video: Real stories of poverty
- Final study questions for SACRED ECONOMICS and a list of the proposals in of WEB OF DEBT.
- 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
Civil Rights
- Civil RIghts Then and Now
Detroit MLK Day for Justice: Of Dreams and Nightmares - Civil Rights iTextbook now available in iTunes - Teaching Critical Reading & Persuasive Writing Skills
- Angela Davis: Dismissal of Palestinians is reminiscent of Jim Crow days
- Celebrate Heroes and Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement
Lesson: Thanksgiving
Landmines
Published on Truthout
Latin American Lessons
- Latin America and Human Rights, Globalization
The Peoples´ International Health Tribunal: San Miguel Ixtahuacán 2012 - 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
Hunger Games
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
Lessons on Bin Laden and Terrorism
Lessons: Auschwitz
Lessons: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Women´s History
- International Women´s Day (IWD)
- http://www.internationalwomensday.com
- 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
US History
- Robert Parry | What Has US Militarism Wrought?
- Military Decides to Withhold Key Data on Afghanistan War
- A Time for ‘Sublime Madness’
How art, music, etc helped overcome slavery and make possible the civil rights movement. - US History and Math
- US History and Civics
The Second Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery - Rethinkin´ Lincoln on the 150th Birthday of the Emancipation Proclamation By Bill Bigelow
- US History and Gov
• This is My Vote quiz - Right-Wingers Would Be Shocked to Learn That Islam Has Been Part of American History Since Its Founding
- It´s an American Classic - Our Social Security System
- 9 Great Freethinkers and Religious Dissenters in History
- Labor Movement Songs
- Pardon Me, Mr. President By Alan Grayson
- A 75th Anniversary for the American Dream, a 25-Year Anniversary for Me By Michael Moore
- America …during the years of 1935 – 1939
History/Vietnam War
Bill of Rights Institute ( BRI )
Subscribe to Bill of Rights eLesson/Email Newsletter
- Searching for the Fourth Amendment
- Civics/Testing the Limits of Free Speech eLesson
- 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
Lessons on Labor
- Brand Names and Mass Graves
- 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?
Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Gazette
Education Outreach e-Newsletter
- Voting in Early America (October 2012)
- Finding Slaves in Unexpected Places (November 2011)
- The Monstrous Absurdity (May 2011)
- What Can Clothing Tell Us about the Enslaved? (April 2011)
- The Revolution on the Home Front (March 2011)
- The History of Chocolate: Chocolate in the American Colonies (January 2011)
- George Mason's Objections to the Constitution (November 2010)
- Juvenile Justice: A Century of Change (March 2010)
- Pirates and Piracy (June 2009)
Starvation or Survival
- Groups of 4 or 5 simulate farmers in subsistence farming villages. Impacts and choices farmers made from them in many countries drives this simulation of 50% of the world's population
- 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.
- After the first round that usually leaves all villages malnourished so susceptible to disease, we ask for feelings if this were their lives year in and year out. If they felt that way how would they act? Throughout we ask if what's happening is actually happening in the world and where. This brings out prior knowledge.
- The question asked at the post session is : Who would these projects help? They know from being subsistence farmers what wouldn't help them.
Returning several years later we find students remember us because of the reality of the simulation!
Propaganda Techniques
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