A Revolution of Values
Teaching Activity. By Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 3 pages.
Text of speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the Vietnam War, followed by three teaching ideas.
Salt of the Earth: Grounds Students in Hope
Teaching Activity. By S.J. Childs.
The author describes how she introduces students to the classic 1953 film, Salt of the Earth, about a miners’ strike in New Mexico.
School Days: Hail, Hail, Rock ‘n’ Roll!
Teaching Activity. By Rick Mitchell.
Description of a course on the history of music in the United States.
“A School Year Like No Other”: Eyes on the Prize: “Fighting Back: 1957-1962”
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow.
A companion lesson to the Eyes on the Prize segment on school integration.
Seneca Falls, 1848: Women Organize for Equality
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow.
A role play allows students to examine issues of race and class when exploring both the accomplishments and limitations of the Seneca Falls Convention.
Shutdown!—Confronting Plant Closures
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond.
In this role play activity, students assume the roles of union members and attempt to figure out how to respond to a threatened plant closure.
The Singing Strike and the Rebel Students: Learning from the Industrial Workers of the World
Reading for Teachers. By Bill Bigelow.
Author describes how students applied strategies from the Lawrence strike to their own present day activism.
Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union: Black and White Unite?
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond.
Role play on farm labor organizing in the 1930s shows how racism had to be challenged to create effective worker alliances.
Standing with Standing Rock: A Role Play on the Dakota Access Pipeline
Teaching activity by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, Bill Bigelow, and Andrew Duden. Article by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. 15 pages.
A role play that helps students recognize the issues at stake in the historic struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
Stealing Home: Eminent Domain, Urban Renewal, and the Loss of Community
Teaching Activity. By Linda Christensen.
Teaching about patterns of displacement and wealth inequality through the history of Chávez Ravine and the building of Dodger Stadium.
Stenciling Dissent: A Student Project Draws on the Language of the Streets
Teaching Activity. By Andrew Reed.
Teaching activity connects students to history of art as a means of protest and gives them opportunity and skills to create their own stencil with a powerful message.
Stepping into Selma: Voting Rights History and Legacy Today
Teaching Activity. Teaching for Change. 2015.
Introductory lesson on key people and events in the long history of the Selma freedom movement.
Sun City – A Teaching Guide
Teaching Guide. By Bill Bigelow.
Lessons to accompany the 1985 video “Sun City” that promoted the cultural boycott of South Africa initiated by Little Steven van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen’s E St. Band.
“Taylorizing” Burgers: A Fantasy
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond. 8 pages.
In this playful activity, students utilize the principles of “scientific management” to restructure a burger joint—one that has been run a good deal more democratically and imaginatively.
Teaching Blockadia: How the Movement Against Fossil Fuels Is Changing the World
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow, Adam Sanchez, and Tim Swinehart.
A role-play activity engages students in building solidarity among different groups and organizations fighting fossil fuels and searching for alternatives.
Teaching SNCC: The Organization at the Heart of the Civil Rights Revolution
Teaching Activity. By Adam Sanchez. 24 pages.
A series of role plays that explore the history and evolution of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Teaching Sacrifice Zones
Teaching Activity. By Rosemarie Frascella.
Our extractive fossil fuel-based economy has always demanded that some people’s homes and health be sacrificed for the benefit of more privileged and powerful others. This article explores how one teacher engages her students in thinking about how “sacrifice zones” play out in their lives.
Teaching the Vietnam War: Beyond the Headlines
Teaching Activity. By the Zinn Education Project. 100 pages.
Eight lessons about the Vietnam War, Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers, and whistleblowing.
Testing, Tracking, and Toeing the Line: A Role Play on the Origins of the Modern High School
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow.
A role play on the origins of the modern high school.
Tè Tremblé: An Unnatural Disaster: A Trial Role Play Probes the Roots of Devastation in Haiti
Teaching Activity. By Adam Sanchez.
A trial role play asks students to question the role played by the U.S. government and other international actors in the 2010 earthquake.