Lessons

This shortest month of the year is typically filled with history reports, pageants, guest speakers, cultural fairs and the like. Seldom a day goes by that we don't hear the names of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Madame C.J. Walker, George Washington Carver, and so on.

In this upper-grades activity, students use basic news reporting skills to explore the impact of environmental racism.

Draw on your students' prior knowledge to help them understand the importance of the labor movement.

In this activity, students in the middle and upper grades will explore whether Obama's selection as the president of the United States marks a new era in America, one where race doesn't matter.

Lesson on 'unbranding' guides students toward diversity appreciation

Period songs give students an understanding of early 19th century labor conditions

During this lesson, students will reflect on the ways they have experienced or participated in bias based on physical size and appearance—and will discuss how society’s expectations about body image and appearance affect people. Students build on their media literacy skills as they examine media images for messages that consciously and unconsciously affect attitudes and behaviors toward others. Finally, the class will explore ways to get beyond appearance as a dominant force in their social lives.Note: This lesson has been adapted with permission from the original created by GLSEN for its program, No Name-Calling Week.

On November 20, 1969, Alcatraz island became the unlikely stage for a landmark event in the Native American rights movement.