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Curated OER

Environment: Mock Trial

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students role-play a trial regarding the taking of family property for a new water purification plant. Among the roles are the judge, attorneys, witnesses, plaintiff, mayor, and jury members. Once both sides present their case, the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Activism

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students use a leading question in order to create context for the lesson. The use of media helps to engage students with the integration of technology. Students consider major problems of society.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Positive Futures Fair

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, in groups, research an issue they feel is significant in today's world. They present and justify specific actions for the audience to take that would help to better the issue of public concern.
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Website
Other

Enough Project: The Project to End Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about efforts being made to eradicate genocide and other crimes against humanity by activist group Enough.
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Website
Other

Greenpeace: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive site about the Green Peace organization.
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Website
Other

Ufw: Dolores Huerta

For Students 9th - 10th
A lengthy and detailed biography of Dolores Huerta who has spent her life championing the rights of farmworkers.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Stepping Up: What Motivates You to Make Change

For Students 9th - 10th
This learning module includes several examples of ways that students can make a difference in their communities to create positive change.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Poetry of Maya Angelou

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the poetry of Maya Angelou.
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Lesson Plan
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Introduction to Activism

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson takes a closer look at one of key activists in the women's, workers' and immigrants' rights movement in the 20th century.
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Handout
Digital History

Digital History: Feminism Reborn

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive survey of the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s documents women and politics, women's wages, legal discrimination against women, stereotypes of women, women's rights legislation, and women's rights...
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Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

For Students 9th - 10th
Two months after the Greensboro sit-ins, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed to coordinate the sit-ins and other forms of social activism against white oppression.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Martyrdom

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video from Wide Angle, 18-year-old Mohanned Abu Tayyoun discusses the reasons behind his decision to conduct a martyr operation.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams & Black Power

For Students 9th - 10th
Tells the story of civil rights activist Rob Williams and his belief that Black Americans needed to draw guns on violent racists.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The High Cost of Progress

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet an activist who works to help the struggling farmers of rural India, in this video from Wide Angle. [2:30]
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Website
Other

The Progressive Magazine

For Students 9th - 10th
Homepage of the national magazine for peace and social justice, THE PROGRESSIVE. Read recent news regarding social justice here.
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Lesson Plan
Google

Louisiana Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Grade 4: Conservation: Unit Files

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the beauty of the natural world and the responsibilities of leaving an abundance of resources to future generations. A complete unit Google Drive folder of teacher resources.
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Handout
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Women of the Century: Politics & Government

For Students 9th - 10th
Short biographical entries of women who were pioneers in politics and government with links to additional information about their lives and causes.
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Graphic
Curated OER

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Poster

For Students 9th - 10th
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Poster.