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Lesson Plans
‘I am Omar’: Exploring Identity and Representation
In this lesson, students consider questions surrounding identity and representation by analyzing a story about a Muslim scholar from Senegal, who wrote the only surviving autobiography in Arabic by an...
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Lesson Plans
The Middle Passage
A lesson from the Office of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Initiatives of Buffalo Public Schools in which students learn about the experience and journey of enslaved Africans along the...
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Lesson Plans
Displacement in the Face of Climate Change
Students analyze how climate change affects migration around the world, make local connections to global climate migration stories, and summarize learning through one-pagers and persuasive letters.
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Students learn to distinguish between breaking news and underreported stories about migration, and consider how perspectives and authorship shape the stories of migration we encounter.
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Lesson Plans
Comparing and Contrasting Global Migration Policies
Students use news resources to learn about and evaluate migration policies around the world, and to understand how policies affect migrants’ lives.
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Fighting Mortality
Students analyze global trends in mortality, investigate health disparities in Chicago, and leverage international initiatives to promote well-being in their own communities through civic action.
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Students explore cross-cultural solidarity in the context of social justice movements in America by examining a diverse range of historical and contemporary texts and craft reflections through daily...
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Students investigate global and local environmental issues and explore stories that celebrate activists. Then students create posters that highlight environmental issues in Chicago.
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Students will analyze underreported news stories about family migration. After learning the elements of a feature story, they will research and write articles about their own migration histories.
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Students examine historic national inequities in education, racial justice, and climate change and then highlight examples of organizations leveraging the challenge of COVID-19 to solve these...
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In this lesson, students will analyze a short film and consider how its subject uses art to challenge gender norms, then reflect on how they can challenge harmful norms in their own communities.
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Lesson Plans
'Race for the Vaccine' Curricular Resource
Students analyze a documentary film that depicts the vaccine development process, and captures how five teams of scientists raced against time to produce the COVID-19 vaccine.
