Activity Ideas

Students identify and reflect on archival silences relative to the content they’re learning.

Educators Adam Sanchez and Jesse Hagopian have prepared materials for an activity called the Black Panther Party Mixer.

This arts-based pedagogy activity produces blackout poetry highlighting identity, self-love, community, hope, and solidarity while also wrestling with issues of power and oppression in U.S. history and in local communities.

Students unpack excerpts from Charles Payne’s essay on the topic and relate it to their textbook.

Students represent an intentionally diverse group of economists from a range of backgrounds and theoretical camps in a mixer activity.

Students consider the differences between objectivity and credibility by exploring different historians’ stances.

This activity prompts students to complete a graphic organizer to track what parts of the world get attention in the textbook (and which places do not) in their social studies textbooks.

Students consider how Rosa Parks’ legacy is memorialized by critically examining her statue at the U.S. Capitol, then learn the fuller story of Rosa Parks’ life to determine how they would memorialize her legacy. The lesson uses excerpts from The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis, which has been adapted for young readers by Brandy Colbert.

This activity prompts students to create a graphic organizer to track whose perspectives and experiences are included (and who is not) in their social studies textbooks.

Students consider the differences between objectivity and credibility by exploring different historians’ stances.

This activity prompts students to complete a graphic organizer to track what parts of the world get attention in the textbook (and which places do not) in their social studies textbooks.

This activity prompts students to create a graphic organizer to track whose perspectives and experiences are included (and who is not) in their social studies textbooks.

Students consider the differences between objectivity and credibility by exploring different historians’ stances.

This activity prompts students to complete a graphic organizer to track what parts of the world get attention in the textbook (and which places do not) in their social studies textbooks.

This activity prompts students to create a graphic organizer to track whose perspectives and experiences are included (and who is not) in their social studies textbooks.