Social Studies
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Project
Women on the Move
Out of fear, hope, or desperation, millions of women around the world migrate each year in search of...
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Students reflect on stories they have seen about migration, and then analyze text and photography from eight short articles about women from different parts of the world who were forced to migrate.
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Students will engage with infographics to analyze and communicate global migration trends, and specifically visualize the experience of women who are migrating.
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Lesson Plans
Food Justice: Planting the Seeds of Change
Students use varied art and media forms to learn about and raise awareness of food (in)security issues around the world and in their own communities.
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Lesson Plans
Investigating Police Budgets
Students investigate how governments fund policing and how police use their budgets, and communicate facts and personal perspectives on police funding through digital zines.
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Education Resource
Behind the Story: A New Kind of National Park
In 2004, an ex-Silicon Valley entrepreneur and his nonprofit, American Prairie Reserve, set out on a...
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Lesson Plans
Evaluating 'America's Medical Supply Crisis'
This viewing guide for the documentary "America’s Medical Supply Crisis” leads students in discussion, reflection, and projects that increase public awareness about the PPE shortage in the U.S.
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This resource includes quotes, key terms/names/historical events, and guiding questions for many of the 30+ essays and creative works that compose "The 1857 Project."
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Lesson Plans
Exploring 'The 1857 Project: Extracting the Poison of Racism from America’s Soul' by William H. Freivogel
This lesson plan is designed to introduce William Freivogel’s essay, and The 1857 Project as a whole, through discussion questions and guided reading.
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These activities model ways that students can apply writing, research, discussion, and visual arts skills to explorations of essays written by students for The 1857 Project.
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Lesson Plans
A Global Pandemic: Comparing, Contrasting, and Connecting to International Responses to COVID-19
In this lesson, students will analyze the challenges facing communities in Kenya and Hong Kong in stopping COVID-19 and compare their responses to other places' around the world.
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In this lesson, students will hear from a journalist who uses writing skills to describe underreported places, and practice the same skills in original writing.