Grade: 2nd Grade: American Sign Language Class
Topics: Iraq, Culture, War
Created by: Mike Nappi
This unit was created in response to a simple question that one of Mike’s students posed about Iraq. Mike used this teachable moment to create an interdisciplinary unit that resulted in a student created museum about Iraq in which they taught others at their school about what they had learned.
Find out more: http://insightsintoiraq.wordpress.com/
Grade: 7th and 8th grade Special Education
Topics: Social Issues: drugs, gay rights, gangs, homelessness, pollution, and more
Created by: Marcos Bayas
Students were given the opportunity to think about issues in their community. They chose various topics of interest to them such as high gas prices, homelessness, poverty, lack of school supplies, and gangs and created powerpoint presentations.
Find out more: http://hubbardstudentsatwork.wordpress.com/
Grade: 2nd-5th
Topics: Current and historical racism, current events, civil rights
Social Justice Skills: protests, letter writing, questioning
Created by Undergraduate Childhood Teacher Education Program at NYU
This unit was created in response to a NYC bakery that sold racist cookies. The lessons links this incident to historical racism using children’s literature, teach about antiracism and provide opportunities
for social action.
Find out more: bree-beatitdefeatit.blogspot.com