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Create Your Own Business

Explore what it means to be an entrepreneur by creating a business idea.

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Culture Search: Literary Skulls

Explore Mexican culture and write a poem.

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Cooperation and Compromise

Teach students how to use compromising skills using the creation of the Constitution as a guide.

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Map View: US Imperialism

Teach students how to analyze maps and data to engage with Latino studies.

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Design an ADA Playground

Download a lesson plan for Disability Pride Month or beyond.

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Pride Flags Worksheet

A flag that you create yourself can be a symbolic representation of you!

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Represent Girlhood Lesson Plan(s)

Use this lesson plan (one for elementary and one for middle school) to teach students about female representation.

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Confederate Memorials Lesson Plan

Use this lesson plan to teach students about the removal of Confederate memorials.

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Confederate Memorials Slide Deck

Use this slide deck as a companion to the Confederate Memorials lesson plan.

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Fieldwork vs. Housework Lesson Plan

Use this lesson plan to highlight how discourse around enslaved labor needs to be challenged.

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Fieldwork vs. Housework Slide Deck

Use this slide deck as a companion to the Fieldwork vs. Housework lesson plan and highlight how discourse around enslaved labor needs to be challenged.

Citizenship in Action

Use this lesson plan to teach students the importance of serving and giving in their own communities.

Veteran’s Day

Use this lesson plan to help students understand the complex and checkered history of the treatment of veterans in the United States.

Día de los Muertos

Use this lesson plan to help students understand more about the cultural celebrations and ideas surrounding death.