Students create classroom rules through a group activity, and learn the relationship between customs and laws as it relates to a safe learning environment.
Students create classroom rules through a group activity, and learn the relationship between customs and laws as it relates to a safe learning environment.
Students experience the challenges to reporting objectively by writing a news piece and watching a video about how journalists counteract bias in the newsroom.
Students consider how South Africa's particular history and culture influence the ways its citizens understand and practice democracy.
Students examine sources that shed light on the underlying causes of the outbreak of World War II in Asia.
Students grapple with the meaning of justice and the purpose of trials as they learn how the Allies responded to the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
Students explore the complexities of achieving justice in the aftermath of mass violence and atrocities as they learn about the Tokyo Trials.
Students analyze benchmarks developed by political scientists to measure the health of democracy in the United States.
Students explore the connection between literature, imagination, and democracy by engaging with the work of acclaimed author Azar Nafisi.
Students look at evidence of the changing demographics of the United States and analyze what it suggests about the complexity of the country’s national identity.
Students use the ideas of W.E.B Du Bois and historian David Kennedy to explore their own Jewish identities and consider how they coexist with their identities as Americans.
Students discover how leaders like Sargent Shriver used public policy to fight poverty in the 1960s.
Students reflect on how the Holocaust can educate us about our responsibilities to confront genocide and injustice today.