Help students identify and analyze the key characteristics of the three most common types of news articles.
Help students identify and analyze the key characteristics of the three most common types of news articles.
This Teaching Idea provides students with an opportunity to deepen their understanding of democracy and a framework for making meaning of news stories about the tensions and conflicts in democracies today.
As students take action after Florida's school shooting, introduce a framework for civic participation in your classroom. Facing History has also created suggested discussion questions to help you have the difficult conversations that follow traumatic violent events. Use these questions as a starting point to spark a dialogue around the ways youth can get involved, be Upstanders, and make their voices heard in their own communities.
In this Teaching Idea, students learn about the power of art as a tool for social change and explore how Black Lives Matter activists are using art in the fight for racial justice.
Use this Teaching Idea to review the events of the summer with your students, learn about how they're processing the news, and discuss what issues resonate most with them.
Use this teaching idea to help your students draw connections between the long history of black women’s activism against sexual violence and gender discrimination with the #MeToo movement today. The questions and activities focus on the experiences of Recy Taylor, Rosa Parks, and Essie Favrot.
This Teaching Idea features Google Slides with activities that prompt students to reflect on the difficult ethical questions we’re all facing during the coronavirus crisis.
Explore how dress codes can unfairly target the appearance of certain groups of people and help students consider what fair school dress codes look like.
Help students to examine recent events and statistics about the rise of antisemitism in Europe and to consider how we can respond to hate.
This Teaching Idea invites students to think about the “tools” they have access to during the coronavirus pandemic that can help them take care of themselves, others, and their wider community.
Use this Teaching Idea to introduce the 2020 presidential debates and reflect on factors that shape our political judgments.
Inform students about the Trump administration’s family separation policy and help them emotionally process the human side of this news story.