Education
A Lesson on the Japanese American Internment
Teaching Activity PDF. By Mark Sweeting. 4 pages.
Asian American, Democracy & Citizenship, Education, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
The Politics of Children’s Literature: What’s Wrong with the Rosa Parks Myth
Background Reading for Teachers and High School Students - PDF. By Herbert Kohl. 6 pages.
A critical analysis of children’s books about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
African American, Civil Rights Movements, Education, Individuals in US History
Warriors Don’t Cry: Connecting History, Literature, and Our Lives
Teaching Activity PDF. By Linda Christensen. 21 pages.
Role play and writing activities for language arts and social studies on the Little Rock Nine, Brown v. Board, and schooling in general. Designed for use with the memoir, Warriors Don’t Cry.
African American, Civil Rights Movements, Education, Individuals in US History, Racism & Racial Identity
“A School Year Like No Other”: Eyes on the Prize: “Fighting Back: 1957-1962″
Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 7 pages.
A companion lesson to the Eyes on the Prize segment on school integration.
African American, Civil Rights Movements, Education, Individuals in US History, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity
Pump Up the Blowouts
Teaching Activity PDF. By Gilda L. Ochoa. 5 pages.
Reflections on teaching students about the 1968 walkouts by Chicano students in California.
Civil Rights Movements, Education, Latino, Racism & Racial Identity
Lessons from Freedom Summer
Book - Teaching Guide. Edited by Kathy Emery, Linda Reid Gold and Sylvia Braselmann. 2008. 456 pages.
The Promise: Brown v. Board of Education, The Civil Rights Movement, and Our Schools
Teaching Guide. Edited by Rethinking Schools. 2004.
Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word
Teaching Guide. By Linda Christensen. 196 pages.
Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice (Volume 2)
Teaching Guide. Edited by Rethinking Schools. 248 pages.
Explore by Theme
- African American
- Art & Music
- Asian American
- Civil Rights Movements
- Criminal Justice
- Democracy & Citizenship
- Economics
- Education
- Environment & Food
- Immigration
- Imperialism
- Individuals in US History
- Labor
- Latino
- Laws & Citizen Rights
- LGBT
- Media
- Native American
- Pacific Islander
- Racism & Racial Identity
- Science
- Slavery
- Social Class
- Sports
- US Foreign Policy
- Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
- Women's History









