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Toolkit

This toolkit provides lessons and strategies for helping your students make sense of issues in the news related to democracy.

Unit

Teach students about media literacy, helping them develop as critical consumers and creators of information, in order to support their well-being, their relationships and our democracy.

Inquiry

This 7–9 day C3-aligned inquiry explores the compelling question, “What can we learn from Boston’s past about what it takes to make progress toward educational justice today?”

Motorcycle police escort school buses as they leave South Boston High School

Unit

This unit examines attempts to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957. It explores the impact of the choices of the Little Rock Nine as well as those of leaders, the media, and community members.

The "Little Rock Nine" form a study group after being prevented from entering Little Rock's racially segregated Central High School, 13th September 1957.

Unit

This unit is designed to help students in the UK reflect on how Islamophobia manifests in contemporary society and what needs to be done to challenge it.

Mini-Unit

This capstone project invites students to reflect on their own role in a democracy in light of what they’ve learned about freedom and democracy in US history.

Two colorful hands reaching towards one another

Inquiry

This C3-aligned inquiry explores the compelling question "What can we learn from the stories of Japanese Americans who stood up for their democratic rights and freedoms?"

Manzanar, California. Dust storm at this War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry are spending the duration.

Inquiry

This C3-aligned inquiry explores the compelling question: "What can the history of the Delano grape strike and boycott teach us about what it takes to build solidarity in a movement for change?"

National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) march from Delano to Sacramento.

Unit

This unit introduces students to fundamental concepts and skills related to media literacy.

Two teenage boys sit at a desk in a classroom, working together on a laptop, with other students and a teacher visible in the background.

Insight

by Kaitlin Smith

Mar 21, 2022

Facing History summarizes three new books that have been released in the last year that address the ongoing struggle of women against gender violence.