Identifying the Social and Cultural Contexts of a Time Period – The Journey of the Jewish Americans
This resource is a lesson plan in which students watch a video segment that presents…
Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle | Lesson Plan: Objectivity and Bias in Journalism
In this lesson, students will examine the principles of journalistic objectivity and advocacy journalism through…
The Quest for Religious Freedom
In this lesson, video segments from the PBS series Finding Your Roots are used to…
Identity and Intersecting Perspectives: Between the World and Me | MacArthur Fellows Program
In this lesson, students will explore how our complex identities shape our understanding and experience…
The New American Majority (Episode 1)| And She Could Be Next
In this lesson, the idea of “The New American Majority” is explored through the analysis…
Memories of a Penitent Heart | Lesson Plan: Miguel and Michael – Restoring and Reconciling Lost Histories
Combining home movies, video and written documents with artfully shot contemporary interviews and vérité footage,…
Minding the Gap | Lesson Plan
Minding the Gap is a coming of age film by Bing Liu. Starting in high school,…
12 Essential Books About Race in America
Talking about race isn’t easy. It’s personal, it’s political, it’s visceral. That these were two…
Implicit Bias: Peanut Butter, Jelly and Racism
What is implicit bias? NYT/POV’s Saleem Reshamwala unscrews the lid on the unfair effects of…
How microaggressions are like mosquito bites • Same Difference
For people that still don’t think microaggresions are a problem: just imagine that instead of…