This lesson starts by showing children some of the kinds of advertisements they might run into online and helping them analyze these ads with a critical eye.
When students witness activist resistance to injustices in their own communities, it helps them better understand a core component of social justice education.
Episode 1, Season 3 Teaching the civil rights movement accurately and effectively requires deconstructing the myths and misconceptions around it. Most people are familiar with a very specific version of the movement that
This year is the 50th anniversary of Roald Dahl's classic children's book James and the Giant Peach. In the story, 7-year-old orphan James Henry Trotter escapes his two rotten, abusive aunts by crawling into a giant peach, which rolls, floats and flies him to a new life of wonder and love.
Dr. Kathy Swan is a professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Kentucky. Swan has been a four-time recipient of the National Technology Leadership Award in Social Studies Education, innovating with web-based interactive technology curricula including the Historical Scene Investigation Project and Digital Docs in a Box. She is co-author of the book And Action! Doing Documentaries in the Social Studies Classroom and children’s series Thinking Like A Citizen and co-editor of the book, Teaching the C3 Framework: A Guide to Inquiry Based Instruction in the Social Studies. She is
This lesson, part of the Digital Literacy series, addresses the importance of locating and verifying reliable sources when working with online information.
The guiding principles behind the Black Lives Matter At School Week of Action can be an important frame through which to reimagine more liberatory educational spaces for Black children.
Action in the context of the Social Justice Standards is a domain that includes honoring and celebrating identity and diversity as well as bringing about justice. Both individuals and groups can take action toward social