GRADE LEVEL: High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language In light of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers a four-part lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little…
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GRADE LEVEL: Elementary School, Middle School, High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Language, Speaking and Listening Commemorating National Hispanic Heritage Month
In commemoration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we present this resource to help teachers engage students in thinking broadly and critically about the Hispanic American experience in all of its complexity. In highlighting the significant events as well as people that have made a substantial contribution…
Teach students about the 2016 Olympics, helping them assess the extent to which there is sexism and stereotypes in the media coverage of it.
GRADE LEVEL: Preschool, Elementary School, Middle School, High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language Incidents of violence, such as school shootings or terrorist attacks, raise many issues for parents and educators. How can we assure our children that they are safe in the world? How do we prevent the hatred that leads to violence and terrorism?
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This curriculum unit for grades PreK–12 provides grade-specific…
Teach students about cyberhate using two recent news stories and have them reflect upon the best way to confront cyberhate.
Teach students about changes in U.S. currency and the role of symbols and their impact.
Teach students about genocides, what the world has done to achieve the ideal of “never again” and why these efforts have fallen short.
Teach students about the gender pay gap, what it reflects about sexism and strategies to address the gender pay gap.
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Writing, Speaking and Listening Recently, there have been several news stories about consumers demanding, and toy companies creating, more diverse representations of dolls for children. This includes more dolls of color, dolls with disabilities, and dolls with different body types as well as other physical characteristics like eye color, hair texture and skin complexion. Dolls are one of the first and most common toys for children. They…
Teach students about the connection between anti-Muslim acts of bigotry and the misunderstandings and stereotypes about Muslim people and help them and identify ways they can act as allies.
Teach students about the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris to explore how Muslim people and Syrian refugees are being scapegoated as a result of theses attacks.
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Speaking and Listening Misty Copeland is a thirty-three year old ballerina who recently became the first African American performer to be appointed as a Principal Dancer for the American Ballet Theater in its 75 year history. Copeland joined the studio company of American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in 2000, becoming a soloist several years later and starring in a range of productions such as The Nutcracker and …
Teach students about the School-to-Prison Pipeline and begin to plan some activities to teach others about it and take action.
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language Teaching Opportunity: Exploring the Electoral Process
Political debates can provide important learning opportunities. When election time comes around—whether it be a presidential election or a local contest for mayor, city council member, governor or member of Congress—these debates give teachers an opening to explore candidates, issues and the electoral process with…
Teach students about the refugee crisis in Europe and explore what nations around the world are doing in response to the crisis.
Teach students about Henry and Henriet’s actions that led to the change in school lunch policy, while exploring students' opinions about gender norms and separating children by gender.
Teach students about a 2015 study on teenagers and technology and have them explore their current use of and perspective on technology.
Teach students about the evolution of the Boy Scouts’ position on gay members and leaders and explore their own points of view by writing persuasive essays.
GRADE LEVEL: High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening Racial Discrimination and Safeguarding the Right to Vote
In August 2015, we commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act which was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. The Voting Rights Act is landmark federal legislation that was enacted during the Civil Rights Movement and was intended to prevent racial discrimination in voting. Prior to that, even though Black…
Teach students the 2015 case of Freddie Gray’s death and protests that took place, reading and analyzing several op-eds about it.