This unit uses the 10 Questions Framework to explore two examples of youth activism: the 1963 Chicago schools boycott and the present-day movement against gun violence launched by Parkland students.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Identity & Community: An Introduction to 6th Grade Social Studies
Intentionally designed for middle school classrooms, this unit explores themes of identity and community by using students' knowledge of the Memphis, Tennessee, community.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Global Immigration
My Part of the Story: Exploring Identity in the United States
Help students understand that their voices are integral to the story of the United States with six lesson plans that investigate individual and national identity.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Standing Up for Democracy
Designed for students in the United Kingdom, these lessons foster the critical thinking, mutual respect, and toleration necessary to bring about a more humane society.
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Holocaust
Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior
Use our online unit to lead students through a study of the Holocaust that asks what this history can teach us about the power and impact of choices.
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Holocaust
Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour (UK)
Lead your students through a detailed and challenging study of the Holocaust that asks what this history can teach us about the power and impact of choices.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Media Literacy
Race in US History
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown
Journalists explore social media activism by discussing #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, a Twitter hashtag response to what was seen as racism and stereotypes in the images featured in the media.
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Holocaust
World Responses
Expanding the Third Reich
A Sinister Alliance: Soviet-German Relations 1939–1941
Joshua Rubenstein, author and associate at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies, details the relationship between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the decade before World War II.
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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
Absil Walter - Blood Libel
Holocaust survivor Absil Walter recalls the blood libel myth’s impact on his community.
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Bullying & Ostracism
Adult Intervention
This clip from the film Bully shows an administrator addressing a bullying incident.
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Bullying & Ostracism
Alex from the film BULLY
In this clip from the film BULLY, Alex describes what it was like for him to be bullied.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Aliza Luft, Scholar: Understanding Evil
Aliza Luft, Ph.D. Candidate helps us understand how the categories used to classify people who experience genocide are extremely limiting and erase many complexities.
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