For Educators

In this lesson, students will learn how race intersects with economic mobility, opportunity and generational poverty by viewing and reflecting upon individual stories from the cinéma vérité documentary film Raising Bertie.

In this lesson, students will learn about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and explore how participating in sports can benefit individuals on the spectrum.

This lesson addresses these combined global and media studies concerns by using clips from Dalya's Other Country to deepen students' media analysis skills. It asks students to grapple with multiple types of news and information sources, including an examination of the ways in which documentary films can humanize statistics, policy statements and news reports.

In this lesson, students delve into common perceptions of video games and then explore how such games might have more substantive uses and impact beyond the traditional uses of gaming for enjoyment and competition.

In this lesson plan, students learn about people who had been sentenced to life in prison under California's "Three Strikes Law" and due to passage of a voter reform initiative (Prop 36) are now being released.

In this lesson, students will use the documentary Seven Songs for a Long Life by Amy Hardie to explore the experience of living with a terminal illness or providing care for someone with a terminal illness. In doing so, students will also examine their own attitudes toward death and dying. Through the stories of nurses and patients at Strathcarron, students will learn about the challenges of balancing physical care with quality of life and reflect on the value of arts and music in palliative care.

In this lesson, students develop a critical awareness of the sources of our ideas about war and what it’s like to be a service member who went to war.

In this lesson, students will reflect on the role of "demand" in the U.S. war on drugs and U.S.-Mexico border policy and conduct a short social science research study and prepare written and short oral summaries of their results.

In this lesson, students will establish what the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Article 35 of the Chinese Constitution say about freedom of speech and assembly. They will also research and write biographies of American activists that compare U.S. government treatment of those activists with treatment of the Chinese activist known as Hooligan Sparrow by her country's government. In an informal but focused conversation, they will share with classmates what they have learned about their assigned activists and about free speech.

In this lesson, students will analyze stereotypes about transgender people, solidify their understanding of the terms sex, gender, gender expression, transgender, cisgender, learn to ask probative questions, distinguish fact from opinion and conduct research and evaluate sources for credibility and relevance.