In this lesson, students will learn about the remarkable organizational skills of Cesar Chavez. In addition to watching a biographical video, they will analyze a photograph of Chavez during a protest against grape growers, and they will read a speech in which Chavez reflects on the accomplishments of the farm workers’ movement. They will then evaluate how Chavez’s tactics could be adapted to a current day labor-related issue.

In this lesson, students will understand how the relationship between countries change over time in response to both domestic and international pressures. Students will be able to identify and discuss the factors that conTribute to U.S. foreign policy toward the country they have chose for their case study.

Students help Peg identify shapes and create a spaceship using different shapes. Picture guides are provided to assist students throughout the interactive.

In this lesson, students investigate human rights and how child labor in various places around the world is a violation of rights.

Students will explore the lives of various jazz musicians. They will become familiar with the social and historical events that were present during the lives of these individuals. They will listen to the music of the artists and become knowledgeable about their styles. This activity will culminate in the production of a news/talk show created and performed by the students highlighting the lives of these musical figures.

Students understand the importance of civic participation and the tools which allow individuals to engage in the political process.

In this lesson, students will explore civil disobedience as a tool for social change, focusing specifically on Homer Plessy’s 1892 refusal to leave a “whites only” train car in New Orleans, which led to the landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.

This video accompanies the lesson, Civil Disobedience and Social Change. Students will explore civil disobedience as a tool for social change, focusing specifically on Homer Plessy’s 1892 refusal to leave a “whites only” train car in New Orleans, which led to the landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.

This lesson examines the civil liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and how the conditions of war might affect those liberties. Students will: review the rights and responsibilities of a citizen in a democratic system; study historical precedents for altering civil liberties during time of war; discuss and debate the pros and cons of the wartime curtailment of civil liberties; examine the role of the press in keeping citizens informed in light of the government's need to limit information during times of crisis.

In this lesson, students will take a survey on white and male privilege that explores race and gender inequality. They will then compare and contrast the experiences of African American and white women facing discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s. In a culminating activity, students will then research current areas of discrimination and formulate an anti-discrimination campaign.

In this 6:46 minute video clip, students will investigate how civil rights impacted the classroom, looking at the past and discussing how far the United States has come since desegregation became law.

Students examine and analyze two sculptures located in New York City's Financial District that have artists and art appreciators locking horns in a sticky debate about art, commercial intent and public spaces.

Students study the storms that ravaged the southeastern region of the U.S. and the Caribbean and investigate connections between climate change and extreme weather events.

In this lesson, students will explore one type of observation scientists use to study climate change - glaciers and sea ice melt - through online video and interactive media tools. Students will be asked to evaluate the strength of climate change as a scientific theory based on evidence they find, and reflect on what it means to both local and global communities.

As with all social beings, adolescents need a peer group that they feel comfortable with. However, they often then feel trapped by their social group or clique or feel shunned by another group. This lesson helps students explore the social "boxes" that they place themselves in or are put in by others, and focus on how they judge one another. The lesson can also serve as a training session for students who wish to be Big Brothers and Sisters to incoming freshmen, or student facilitators of Human Relations groups-- two programs that promote a greater sense of community within schools.

In this lesson, students explore new developments in Egyptology and find out how archaeologists may have recently uncovered clues about the location of Queen Nefertiti's remains.

In this lesson plan to accompany American Promise, students will discuss the relationship between code switching, social and political power and discrimination.

This video teaches students how to differentiate between the associative and commutative properties of addition to combine like terms, simplify expressions, and create equivalent expressions.

Students compare and contrast information from three sources to determine the reasons that contributed to panda population decline. They draw conclusions from these sources by writing their own paragraphs.

In this Lesson Plan, students learn about Ken and Joab, two boys who are starting first grade. Ken attends school in Japan, while Joab lives in Kenya. Students compare and contrast the circumstances surrounding the two boys’ experiences at school. They create a venn diagram demonstrating what they have learned.