Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Talk It Over
A research-led resource designed to support educators in facilitating empathetic, honest, and evidence-based conversations on online hate and how to tackle it with secondary aged pupils. Talk it over includes a slide presentation with...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Breaking Barriers: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
Through a series of picture book read-alouds and journal entries, students engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Percy Julian
Brief profile of the life of African American chemist Percy Julian. Entry relates Julian's desire to achieve against the odds of early 20th century prejudice and discrimination.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Racism
An explanation of the term "racism" and how it impacted the rise of Nazism and World War II.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Police Reform
This lesson featuring videos from FRONTLINE: Policing the Police. Using Newark, NJ, as an example, students gather evidence of discriminatory policing practices, examine the perspectives of police and community, and learn about changes...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: The Chinese Experience: Chinese Exclusion
This lesson plan is from a larger unit examining the Chinese immigrant experience in America in the 19th century. Students will examine actions that were taken to discriminate against the Chinese and exclude them from American society.
Other
The History Teacher: Incarceration of the Japanese Americans
A historical article in which a well known historian argues that given today's current political climate, what happened to the Japanese Americans in World War 2 could happen again.
PBS
Pbs: Tolerance in Times of Trial
This lesson compares the treatment of Japanese-Americans and German-Americans during World War II and the treatment of Arab-Americans after September 11th.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Children in the Civil Rights Movement
Meet ordinary children of the past who inspire us even today. Step back in time to a United States full of racism and segregation. Students will explore the Civil Rights Movement and leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They'll see...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Two Towns of Jasper (Classroom Resources on Racism)
Classroom resources that examine the history and intent of hate groups in the United States and the notorious race-motivated murder committed in Jasper, Texas, by three white supremacists. Resources take students through a number of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Class Divided 3: An Interview With Jane Elliott
In this Web-exclusive interview for FRONTLINE, Jane Elliott discusses her abiding sense that her lesson on bigotry is as necessary today as it was in 1968.
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Yellow Line Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Yellow Line by Sylvia Olsen is a novel about racial prejudice in a small town, where whites and natives do not mix. When Vince's friend Sherry starts to date Steve, who is native, Vince tries to break them up. But when he finds himself...
PBS
Pbs: Arab Americans: In the Aftermath of the Terrorist Attacks on the u.s.
Enlightening students can sometimes be difficult, and this lesson tries to make it easier. In this lesson students will be asked about Arab Americans and about issues such as stereotyping.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Behind Closed Doors: "Colorism" in the Caribbean by Michel Martin
In this interview, Michel Martin discusses Frances Robles's report on colorism in the Dominican Republic. Colorism is a form of prejudice based on the darkness of a person's skin color. Discrimination based on colorism often occurs...
McGraw Hill
Circles of My Multicultural Self a Classroom Activity
Activity helps students identify what they consider to be the most important parts of their own identity and develop a better understanding of stereotypes.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "The Story of Ida B. Wells" by Shannon Moreau
A learning module that begins with the biography "The Story of Ida B. Wells" by Shannon Moreau, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech: A Multicultural Literature Bibliography
A list that provides either the teacher or the student with a list of books that gives a representation of the multicultural society that exists in the United States. A brief synopsis of each book is given along with a suggestion for the...
Curated OER
Kootenay: An Exploration of Prejudice Sikhs (And Other Groups)
The Sikh were one group who came to British Columbia to work on the railway, and suffered much discrimination from Victorian settlers. This page offers a brief synopsis about this as part of a larger exhibition on prejudice.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Tutu & Franklin: A Journey Towards Peace (Lesson Plans)
A downloadable teacher's guide for use in conjunction with the PBS documentary "Tutu and Franklin," a film about the views of Desmond Tutu and historian John Hope Franklin. The guide includes general discussion questions and four...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Close Reading Exemplar: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn about the life of Frederick Douglass, his personal experience of the slave system, and the discrimination and prejudice he faced from those around him. This intensive lesson exemplar...
Other
Tcnj: Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Digital Archive
An extensive archive of documents, articles, images, and activities related to the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case from 1954. The site was last updated in 2004 and the video links do not seem to be working now. The...