For Educators

In this lesson plan, students will learn the history of an often-overlooked part of World War II - the girls and women forced into military sexual slavery under the occupation of the Japanese army - by using first-hand testimonies and will learn the consequences of war through the eyes of women who are sharing their stories as an act of healing, a form of resistance and an attempt at historical reconciliation.

In this lesson plan, students will be introduced to the Participatory Budgeting (PB) model and translate it to their own school to develop an Action Plan and Budget proposal that will address an issue in their community.

In this lesson, students will explore key concepts in public health, such as the definitions of “epidemic” and “intervention” and criteria for national and international emergencies, as well as learn the science of the Ebola virus and the existing gaps in global public health policy.

In this lesson, students will learn how donations where the donor is undisclosed are used to finance political campaigns and how investigative journalism has revealed this type of political spending

Debates over U.S. immigration policy, and the xenophobia that often accompanies such debates, are once again center stage. Policy debates are often dominated by statistics and stereotypes, both of which can dehumanize those under examination. This lesson brings the personal stories of migrants back into the debate.

Using clips from the documentary film Nowhere to Hide, which provides a portrait of civilian life in a volatile Iraqi province following the U.S. troop withdrawal in 2011, the lesson asks students to consider the questions they want their political representatives to ask before engaging in active combat.

In this lesson plan, students will examine stereotypes about people with physical disabilities, conduct research about cerebral palsy, write an “advice blog” addressing such stereotypes as well as consider how they choose what to click on when they do online searches.

In this lesson, students will discuss, generate questions and conduct research to arrive at well-informed opinions about whether or not the Taliban is completely responsible for Toorpakai's challenges.

In this lesson, students will analyze, consider and respectfully discuss different perspectives on the death penalty.

In this lesson, students will consider ethical and legal labor standards, especially as they apply to hiring foreign workers, and develop a plan for investing company resources in an overseas venture.