Black History Month Lessons & Resources (collected by the NEA) Learning For Justice’s Do’s and Don’ts of Teaching Black History The Poet’s Voice: Langston Hughes and You Students in grades 6-8 investigate “voice” in Hughes’s poetry, develop their own distinctive voices in journal entries, and write an original poem or critical essay on an aspect of Hughes’s Read More…
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Black History Month 2023
The Black History Month 2023 theme, “Black Resistance,” explores how “African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms and police killings,” since the nation’s earliest days. The first national Negro History Week was organized by Carter G. Woodson in February 1926 to coincide Read More…
Women’s History Month Resources
@LVMS Womens History Month Book List-2021 ONLINE Newsela: Famous Speeches: Zitkala-Ša speaks to Indigenous activists Things you didn’t know (or maybe forgot) about how women got the vote Dream Jobs: Rocket designer Women’s History Month: Leaders (Featured Text Set) Junior Scholastic: How women won the vote A century ago this summer, American women gained the Read More…
When Bad Things Happen
From Teaching Tolerance: When bad things happen : help kids navigate our sometimes violent world. From Kylene Beers: Tomorrow is not simply another day at school From Junior Scholastic and Upfront: Chaos at the Capital and A Failed Attack On Democracy From Common Sense Media: Talking to kids about the violence at the U.S. Capitol From Facing History Read More…
Let’s Talk! Navigating a Polarized Classroom
From Teaching Tolerance: Let’s Talk! Navigating a Polarized Classroom Leading students in conversation about topics like racism, ableism, homophobia or Islamophobia isn’t easy. In recent weeks, increased polarization and political intimidation have made educators understandably wary. But now more than ever, anti-racist, social justice educators must commit to helping students better understand one another and Read More…
RIP RBG
“No one can feel free from danger and destruction until the many torn threads of civilization are bound together again… There can be a happy world… when men create a strong bond towards one another, a bond unbreakable by a studied prejudice or a passing circumstance.” 13-Year-Old Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Prejudice, Its Antidote, and Read More…
Teaching Resources for the 2020 Election-1
Listenwise: Podcast lessons The Listenwise library contains many relevant audio stories, including recent current events, as well as historical perspectives on the electoral process in the United States.Explore the lesson themes below, as well as our earlier blog post on promoting civic engagement with your students and additional resources from other educational organizations. Many of Read More…
Hexagonal Thinking: A Colorful Tool for Discussion
From the Cult of Pedagogy Blog — Betsy Potash — 9/11/20 How it Works When you place an idea on a hexagon, it has six sides where connections could be made to other ideas. When you place many ideas on many hexagons, the discussion about where to connect what will be different every time. Nope. Read More…
ActivelyLearn
ActivelyLearn While the premium version is no longer free–the Free Version offers access to a plethora of awesome articles to be used for critical reading, current events, discussion starters, supplemental material, or sub plans. The News and Articles section gathers current events, timely topics arranged by genre, high interest, popular assignments, Politics and Government, Technology, Read More…
Listening Comprehension & Listenwise
https://listenwise.com/ Premium version is free for 30 days The Free Version offers current events podcasts and the ability to share those podcasts to Google Classroom Listenwise is a website filled with public radio stories covering current and historical events. If you’re looking for ways to bring history to students, these stories provide interesting narrative and great music Read More…