Type | Title | Notes | Description | Category |
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Lesson | Forced Displacement Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice | 5 lessons on global human displacement. Essential Questions | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Lesson | A Nation of Immigrants? | Anchor lesson for teaching Investigating Race and Immigration. | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Reading | History of the Chicano Movement Education reform and farm workers' rights were among the goals | Chicano Movement | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Teacher Guide | Education About Immigram | Content on immigration issues. Teachers can access lessons for classroom | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Resource | Dadaab Stories | Dadaab Stories is an interactive multi-media platform on the Dadaab refugee camp for, mostly, Somali refugees in Kenya. It was developed by the charity Film Aid and explores daily life in the camp, with a plethora of articles, videos and photos on its inhabitants, art in the camp, the refugee Diaspora and other themes. | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Video | State of Arizona | Copies of this film can be borrowed from YCCS. | Film about the Arizona controversial immigration law SB1070 | Investigating Race and Immigration |
Resource | UNHCR Teachers’ Toolkit | Free-of-charge and adaptable UNHCR teaching materials on refugees, asylum, migration and statelessness, and a section dedicated to professional development and guidance for primary and secondary school teachers on including refugee children in their classes. | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Activities | Immigration quiz | Immigration | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Lesson | Latinos and the Fourteenth Amendment: A Primary Document Activity | In this lesson, students will work in pairs and use expert reading strategies to analyze the Court’s ruling in Hernandez v. Texas. After participating in a carousel discussion, students will write a three-minute paper describing how the United States would be different if the Court had reached an alternate conclusion. | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Lesson | Teaching About Migration | In this unit, there are four exemplar teaching and learning activities on immigration that can be adopted and/or adapted for use in your classroom. This is followed by a guided opportunity for teachers to develop their own teaching and learning activity based on the question 'what would happen if all immigration to the UK suddenly stopped?'. | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Video | Immigration Battle | A special two-hour feature film presentation from FRONTLINE and Independent Lens, acclaimed independent filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini take viewers behind closed doors in Washington's corridors of power to explore the political realities surrounding one of the country's most pressing and divisive issues. | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Reading | What’s a Sanctuary City Anyway | Sanctuary City | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Lesson | Teaching Immigration | The lesson plan includes prompts to help introduce the video New York’s Mexican Community: Challenges and Opportunities, questions to assess comprehension and facilitate discussion, as well as resources for further reading and research | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Lesson | Letters From the Diaspora | This is an anchor lesson for teaching Investigating Race and Immigration In this lesson, students share opinions about the causes of mass migration. They then investigate the causes and effects of an event that led to a mass migration and write letters from the perspective of a person who might have lived through that period. | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Lesson | Pathways to America: Teaching About Immigration Changes | This is an anchor lesson for teaching Investigating Race and Immigration. | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Lesson | Huddled Mass or Second Class?: Challenging Anti-Immigrant Bias in the U.S. | This is an anchor lesson for teaching Investigating Race and Immigration. Unit plan. | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Lesson | United We dream toolbox | United We dream toolbox | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Resource | Immigration 101 | Website of the American Immigration Council | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Lesson | What is the Dream Act and Who Are the Dreamers? | What is the Dream Act and Who Are the Dreamers | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Lesson | What Should Be Done about DACA? | What Should Be Done about DACA? | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Lesson | Who are children at our border? | Who are children at our border? | Investigating Race and Immigration | |
Video | New York’s Mexican Community: Challenges and Opportunities | New York’s Mexican Community: Challenges and Opportunities | Investigating Race and Immigration |