Children of Giant | Lesson Plan: Intersectionality On Screen and Off
In the summer of 1955, Hollywood movie crews rolled into the small, West Texas town…
Careers in Science
In this media-rich lesson, students explore careers in science through profiles of Alaska Native scientists….
The Road to Representation – Creating the Crunchy Life
In this blog, Glen Mourning, an elementary reading teacher and author talks about his reasoning…
Unlearning Thanksgiving: Centering Indigenous Youth…
Edward J. Falcon Jr. is from Belcourt, North Dakota on the land of the Turtle…
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…
The Quest for Religious Freedom
In this lesson, video segments from the PBS series Finding Your Roots are used to…
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,…
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…
Native Americans As Slaves, Slave Owners In North
MacArthur ‘Genius’ Tiya Miles does pioneering research on the relationship between Cherokee Indians and African-Americans….