Open Minds to Equality: A Sourcebook of Learning Activities to Affirm Diversity and Promote Equity
Teaching Guide. By Nancy Schniedewind and Ellen Davidson. 4th Edition. 408 pages. 2014. Rethinking Schools.
Full of activities to help students explore inequalities and cooperation.
Themes: Racism & Racial Identity
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Panama, the 1991 Gulf War, and the War at Home
Teaching Activity. By Robert Standish.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 22 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on Panama, the 1991 Gulf War, and the War on the Poor in the United States.
Time Periods: 20th Century, Post-Civil Rights Era: 1975 - 2000
Themes: US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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A People’s Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching Climate Change and the Environmental Crisis
Teaching Guide. Edited by Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart. 400 pages. 2014. Rethinking Schools.
Articles, student readings, and teaching activities to understand environmental problems and imagine solutions.
Themes: Climate Justice, Environment, Science
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A People’s History for the Classroom
Teaching Guide. By Bill Bigelow. 120 pages. 2008. Rethinking Schools.
Lessons to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of U.S. history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. Published by Rethinking Schools.
Time Periods: All US History
Themes: Education
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Planning to Change the World: A Plan Book for Social Justice Teachers
Plan book. Edited By Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Thomas Nikundiwe, Carla Shalaby. Rethinking Schools.
Plan book designed to help teachers translate their vision of a just education into concrete classroom activities.
Themes: Education
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The Power In Our Hands: A Curriculum on the History of Work and Workers in the United States
Teaching Guide. By Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond. 1988.
Role plays and writing activities project high school students into real-life situations to explore the history and contemporary reality of employment (and unemployment) in the U.S.
Time Periods: 19th Century, Industrial Revolution: 1877 - 1899, 20th Century, Prosperity, Depression, & World War II: 1920 - 1944
Themes: Economics, Labor, Organizing, Racism & Racial Identity
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The Power of the Story: The Voice of Witness Teacher’s Guide to Oral History
Teaching Guide. Edited by Cliff Mayotte. 2013 (2nd edition).
A guide to explore contemporary issues through oral history, and to develop the communication skills necessary for creating oral history projects in communities.
Themes: Language Arts, World History/Global Studies
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Preparing the Revolution
Teaching Activity. By Gayle Olson-Raymer.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 4 of Voices of a People's History of the United States on class differences and internal dissent before and during the Revolutionary War.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Social Class
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Protesting the First World War
Teaching Activity. By Colby Smart.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 14 of Voices of a People's History of the United States on anti-war efforts during the first World War, as well as the U.S. government's response.
Time Periods: 20th Century, World War I: 1910 - 1919, Prosperity, Depression, & World War II: 1920 - 1944
Themes: Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
Teaching Guide and Website. Edited by Deborah Menkart, Alana D. Murray, and Jenice L. View. 2004.
Provides lessons and articles for K-12 educators on how to go beyond a heroes approach to the Civil Rights Movement, with a focus on education, economics, labor, youth, women, and culture.
Time Periods: 20th Century, People’s Movement: 1961 - 1974
Themes: Civil Rights Movements, Organizing
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Race and Membership in American History
Teaching Guide. By Alan Stoskopf. Facing History and Ourselves. 2002.
Resources for teaching about the eugenics movement in the United States.
Time Periods: 20th Century, Turn of the Century: 1900 - 1909
Themes: Racism & Racial Identity, Science
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Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word
Teaching Guide. By Linda Christensen. 314 pages. 2017, 2nd edition. Rethinking Schools.
Lessons for teaching a range of writing genres while addressing social justice themes.
Themes: Education, Language Arts
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The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy
Teaching Guide. By Facing History and Ourselves. 2015.
A collection of lessons, videos, and primary sources to teach about Reconstruction.
Time Periods: 19th Century, Reconstruction Period: 1865 - 1876
Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity
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Resistance in Paradise: Rethinking 100 Years of U.S. Involvement in the Caribbean and the Pacific
Teaching Guide. Edited by Debbie Wei and Rachel Kamel. 1998. 199 pages.
Readings and teaching ideas for high school students on the Spanish-American War.
Time Periods: 19th Century, Industrial Revolution: 1877 - 1899
Themes: Pacific Islander, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Rethinking Bilingual Education: Welcoming home languages in our classrooms
Teaching Guide. Edited by Elizabeth Barbian, Grace Gonzales, and Pilar Mejia. 344 pages. 2017. Rethinking Schools.
This collection of articles reveals the many ways that teachers bring students’ home languages into their classroom.
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years
Teaching Guide. Edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson. 192 pages. 2003. Rethinking Schools.
Readings and lessons for grades 5 to 12 about the impact and legacy of the arrival of Columbus in the Americas.
Time Periods: Colonization: 1492 - 1764
Themes: Native American
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Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Teaching Guide. Edited by Ann Pelo. 256 pages. 2008. Rethinking Schools.
Lessons and articles about social justice early childhood education. Published by Rethinking Schools.
Rethinking Elementary Education
Teaching Guide. Edited by Linda Christensen, Mark Hansen, and Bob Peterson. 360 pages. 2012. Rethinking Schools.
The best collection of writing from Rethinking Schools magazine about how to teach for social justice at the elementary level. Published by Rethinking Schools.
Themes: Education
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Rethinking Ethnic Studies
Teaching Guide. Edited By R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, Wayne Au. 363 pages. 2019. Rethinking Schools.
Brings together many of the leading teachers, activists, and scholars to offer examples of Ethnic Studies frameworks, classroom practices, and organizing at the school, district, and statewide levels.
Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World
Teaching Guide. Edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson. 402 pages. 2002. Rethinking Schools.
An extensive collection of readings and source material on critical global issues, plus teaching ideas, lesson plans, and rich collections of resources for classroom teachers.
Time Periods: 20th Century, 2001 - Present
Themes: Labor, US Foreign Policy, World History/Global Studies
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