Teaching For Socially Active Students
Websites are only a click away, but it is often challenging to find valid sources. Here is a list of websites that teachers can utilize in their classroom.
Centre for Social Justice Aboriginal Issues:
http://www.socialjustice.org/index.php?page=aboriginal-issues
Using Their Words:
http://www.usingtheirwords.org/
Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice:
http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/using-photographs-teach-social-justice
Canada's First Peoples
http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_treaties/fp_treaties_treaty4.html
http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/2021?locale=en
http://www.teachersforjustice.org/2009/02/resource-community-building-activities.html
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/teach/elemact.htm
http://www.cchdbaltimore.org/superhero-of-justice.pdf
Videos are a great way to engage students in the classroom. They work to engage students and help to foster creativity. Here is a list of possible videos on social justice and what it means to be socially active that can be shown in the classroom:
What is Social Justice?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VS20XrHivw
To This Day Project - Shane Koyczan on Bullying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltun92DfnPY
Kids React to Gay Marriages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TJxnYgP6D8
Kids React to Frozen Multi Language:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7WNr8Df1T0
World Hunger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W2Ic5hV28w
World Hunger - A Billion for a Billion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jSBW0BOPqM
Horizon Treaty Education
Alien Invasion
Wab Kinew Bio
Blogs provide the opportunity for teachers to interact and share their teaching and learning with the rest of the teaching profession as well as their class. Check out some of these great blogs:
Service Learning and Social Action:
http://lincoln.brookline.k12.ma.us/service-learning-and-social-action.html
Teaching Students to Stand Up and Speak Out:
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/social-justice-lessons-activities-resources-rebecca-alber
We Are All Treaty People
RESOURCES
VIDEOS
WEBSITES
Blogs