ACTIVITIES
This Newbery Medal winner tells the mythical tale of a legendary hero: 12 year old Jeffrey Magee – known as Maniac…
TEACHING RESOURCE
Have your kids uttered their first stereotype yet? Here are the words you need to talk with them about labeling people.
Learn about the challenges faced by today's African-American community.
WORKSHEETS
Enhance understanding with a teaching guide that offers suggestions for talking to your students about civil and human…
Students use prior knowledge to write about several forms of discrimination.
After reading The Misfits, use the discussion questions in this guide to examine the events in the book and develop…
In this skill-building lesson, children study photographs and learn how to identify acts of kindness by their…
DAILY WARM-UPS
Help students master important nonfiction reading skills with an informational text on segregation and reading…
Students will colour their way to learning about civil rights activist Rosa Parks! This colouring book page is a fun way…
Students will take a quiz about Australia's unfortunate history of racial discrimination. The activity helps raise…
BOOK GUIDES
This teacher's guide to The Soccer Fence: A story of friendship, hope, and apartheid in South Africa contains reading,…
During the 1950s and early 1960s, African American workers at many large-scale bakery factories weren't allowed to work…
This coloring book page features a picture of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights leader and American icon, and a…
Use this mini-unit to expose students to an overview of the civil rights movement, and familiarize them with Martin…
After reading Candy Shop, use these questions and cross-curricular activities to encourage classroom discussion on…
Enhance understanding of the Holocaust with a teaching guide that offers resources for discussing the horrific event. …
Call Me By My Name by John Ed Bradley will open students' eyes to the transition to integration in the South. This…
Learn about the unsung civil rights hero Claudette Colvin. These book discussion questions and service learning projects…
Use this teacher's guide with The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine to study the "Lost Year" (1958-59), when all…
Even after the abolition of slavery, Jim Crow laws restricted the freedom of African-Americans.
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine is set in Little Rock, Arkansas one year after the Little Rock Nine…
Examine the origins of hate and racism with ten in-depth lesson plans that incorporate historic sources cited in or…
REFERENCE
The passage of Title IX was supposed to guarantee equality for women in amateur sports, but this article shows how that…
Ask students to research the effort to end lynching in the early twentieth century. Then, complete the questions found…