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Assessment
Stanford University

United Farm Workers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What do primary sources tell people about important events in history? The assessment geared toward high school social studies focuses on primary sources. Learners analyze a poster and a blueprint to determine how the documents show the...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Building Background Knowledge: Why Do Workers Strike? (Chapter 11: "Los Aguacates/Avocados")

For Teachers 5th Standards
Make connections between Esperanza Rising and human rights with the activities outlined here. The instructional activity starts out with a brief quiz and review of the novel. After that, pupils circulate and share quote strips that you...
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Curated OER

Human Rights

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then research countries which have had human right violations.
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Curated OER

The Movement Before the Movement: Civil Rights Activism in the 1940s

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Many educators focus on the civil rights movement as it occurred after Rosa Parks incited the bus boycott. Extend the understanding of the fight for civil rights in the United States with this post-WWII lesson. Learners examine and...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

Guest-Worker Program

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The U.S. Guest-Worker Program and the H-2A visa are the focus of a social studies activity. First, class members assume the role of advisors who must present the president with four proposals that would amend the visas given to...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Cesar Chavez: Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Cesar Chavez believed so much in the cause of farmworkers that he put his money where his mouth was. Chavez quit his well-paying job to organize them into labor unions. Using a speech, photograph, and short biographical video, pupils...
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Teaching Tolerance

Civil Rights Activity Book

For Students 4th - 6th
An activity booklet includes a timeline of the movement, a song, and various informational reading passages on leaders, events, and the Civil Rights Memorial in Washington DC. Reading response questions and word puzzles are sure to...
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US House of Representatives

Hispanic-American Members of Congress in the Civil Rights Era, 1945–1977

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
New ReviewDebates around immigration in the news are not new, but they are a defining feature of the Hispanic American experience throughout the twentieth century. Looking through the lens of Hispanic Americans in Congress, class members explore...
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Curated OER

Bill of Right in Action

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Groups reserach and write about topics given to them by their teacher dealing with the Bill of Rights.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

You Can't Go Wrong with a Right Triangle 2

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Upper graders use the properties of right angle trignonmetry to measure objects such as the school flagpole. They solve real world problems using these properties.
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Lesson Plan
California Department of Education

Safe at Work

For Teachers 8th Standards
From minimum wage to minimizing injuries, young workers need to know their rights! The sixth and final lesson in a series of college and career readiness activities gets eighth graders thinking about safety and labor laws. 
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Curated OER

Keep Your Eye On the Prize

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers learn about citizens who were actively involved in the civil rights movement, and the strategies they used to overcome the Jim Crow laws that were so prevalent in the 1960s. They investigate the voting amendments of the US...
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Lesson Plan
Advocates for Human Rights

Migrants in the Media

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Class members examine two documents—The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and The Rights of Migrants in the United States—and then use reports in the media to assess how well the US is doing in ensuring these rights.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas

For Students 8th - 12th
In this primary source analysis instructional activity, learners analyze an image of workers leaving the Pennsylvania shipyards in Texas. Students respond to 1 short answer question based on the provided source.
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Curated OER

People behind the Civil Rights Movement

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students identify the people actively involved in the Civil Rights Movement. For this United States History lesson, students watch the video "Eyes on the Prize" then participate in a class discussion about the video.  Students also...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Handout 4C: Reflection UFW Today

For Students 9th - 12th
How has the UFW or United Farm Workers labor union changed? Learners go to the website and explore several articles and specific legislative actions currently in place today. The worksheet includes answers and a web link, and will allow...
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Lesson Plan
C-SPAN

Last Days of Martin Luther King, Jr.

For Teachers 6th - 12th
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Four video clips reveal the events of that time, including the shift in the focus of the Civil Rights Movement, the aftermath of the assassination, and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Bringing Animal Issues into the Classroom: César Chávez

For Students 5th
Fifth graders get critical and political while they begin thinking about human and animal rights in relation to the US Constitution. This hand out includes answers to several questions regarding Cesar Chavez and his work to secure rights...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Reformers: Martin Luther and César Chávez

For Students 7th
Kids consider the characteristics needed to be reformers like Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez. They read a series of quotes focused on both animal and human rights to answer eight critical thinking questions. 
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National Woman's History Museum

Progressive Era Women

For Students 7th - 12th
The National Women's History Museum provides this interactive resource that permits users to explore women who played key roles during the Progressive Era in the quest for workers' rights, the Settlement House Movement, the Suffrage...
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Worksheet
Civics Center

Reflection: Boycott Agreement

For Students 10th - 12th
Civics, ethics, and even US history classes may cover the topics of workers' rights and a liveable wage, the focus of this handout. It provides a summary of an agreement between the Committee of Immokalee Workers and Yum! Brands, Inc....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Property Rights: Soviet Farms

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine the problems with the collectivized agriculture program in the Soviet Union. They listen to a teacher-led lecture, participate in a property rights scenario activity, create a plan for maximizing the value of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Roofing and Right Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students use models and symbols to represent properties of the Pythagorean Theorem. For this right triangle lesson, students connect real jobs to properties of right triangles. They solve word problems applying the correct ratios and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

People Who Make a Difference

For Students 2nd
A thought-provoking worksheet on vegetarianism and animal's rights awaits your second graders. Learners discuss Cesar Chavez' reasons for becoming a vegetarian, then answer some questions on the worksheet.

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