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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cesar Chavez: Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will watch a short video and examine two primary sources in order to understand how Chavez was able to successfully organize a movement among some of America's poorest and most oppressed workers.
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Interactive
Other

National Museum of American History: Object of History: Short Handled Hoe

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief description and interactive picture of the short-handled hoe which is now banned as an unsafe hand tool due to the suffering laborers endured who used it in the fields.