This lesson provides a framework for critical analysis of current and historic race relations in America through the lens of the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, Jr., a young unarmed black man, by white police officer Darren Wilson in...

A collection of primary documents dealing with the ethnic groups found in the Columbia River Basin.

This personal site provides a list of links and lesson plans related to immigration up to the current time.

Collection of folktales, myths, and fairy tales from around the world. Scholastic provides lesson plans and activities to help young scholars understand and even create their own myth, folktale, or fairy tale.

Exercise in which participants introduce themselves by sharing information about their ethnicities and backgrounds, highlighting the similarity and diversity among members of the class.

If teaching a unit about the history of popular music in America, this PBS web site supporting their four-part TV broadcast of a few years ago would make a great resource. Includes lesson plans and oral histories too.

A great lesson plan that offers primary source materials to understand Italian immigration to Pennsylvania in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Students explore stereotypes in the media and representations of race, class, ethnicity, and gender by analyzing comics over a two-week period and then re-envisioning them with a "comic character makeover."

Great reference tool for exploring American history and culture through artistic images. The visual images shown relate to issues Americans face today: economics, war, and race & ethnicity. Included is a teacher resource page with...

This is a lesson plan on the environmental aspects of economic development. Focusing on Brazil, the lesson takes young scholars through the pros and cons associated with development and how multiple players are involved.

Go directly to the teaching resource developed to accompany the first episode in the six-part documentary on Auschwitz ("Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State") broadcast by PBS. Find a discussion guide for clarifying how and when the Nazis...

This lesson plan directs children to learn about their family histories by visiting sites that connect them to the homelands of their ancestors.

Images have power-they can trigger memories or symbolize abstract ideas. Learners put the power of images to the test as they analyze symbolism in Night and create symbolic photomontages.

Through dialogue, documentation, research, and interviews, learners understand their role in society. This unit provides a background to students' family histories and gives them an opportunity to listen to the voices of immigrants of...