From "The Big One: Teaching About Climate Change." Rethinking Schools magazine, summer 2009. Used by permission. Cut the roles into separate strips of paper. Read the introduction to the group before beginning the role play....

Scenario 1: You are a single mother with two children in elementary school. You work full-time as a sales clerk at The Gap. You make 14,250 dollars a year and have cash savings of 450 dollars. Scenario 2: You are a father with three children, ages 2, 4 and 6. You work full-time as a fire fighter,...

1. Sophia, a 5-year old girl, walks out on the diving board. Her mom is in the swimming pool below encouraging her to jump. Sophia's legs are shaking. She tells her mom that she doesn't think she can do it. Sophia's mom offers more words of encouragement....

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice? — Diane Glancy, Cherokee poet When a just cause reaches its flood-tide... whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power. — Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragette Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. — Martin...

Based on excerpts from "Medicine of Mirth" by Mary Desmond Pinkowish and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Office" by Nancy Mann Jackson in Ode Magazine, August, 2009.Cut the sheet into three separate slips for three small groups....

1. Make eye contact about once every 5 seconds and whistle the entire time. 2. Make eye contact about once every 5 seconds and then yawn. 3. Keep staring at the same corner of the room and don't take your eyes off of that corner. 4. Slouch in your chair, stare down at the floor and look up about...

Feelings of uncertainty and hopelessness are understandable in a world with so much injustice. Yet the root causes of injustice did not come into being automatically. They were created by people, and they can be transformed by people, too. That's where you come in....

165 BCE—The last Jewish state of biblical times is established following a revolt in Judea 63 BCE—Roman conquerors place Judea under the Roman province of Palestine 70 CE—Romans suppress a revolt and the following centuries include the dispersion, banishment and selling as slaves of the Jewish...

Germany United States United States Japanese Americans Jewish People Affected by the Holocaust South Africa Unitarian Universalists Ute tribe Black South Africans African Americans...

Adapted from The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration by Bill Bigelow (Milwaukee: Rethinking Schools, Ltd., 2006). Corn: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada that went into effect on January 1,...

For every Israeli great-grandfather with memories of escaping anti-Semitism in Europe and finding a beloved homeland in British Mandated Palestine, there is a Palestinian great-grandfather with memories of Palestine as the only beloved homeland he has ever known....

South Africa and Black South Africans Apartheid was the law in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. Apartheid laws enforced segregation by race and kept the white majority in power, while denying black South Africans basic human rights and freedoms. After years of pressure from other countries, South...

Cut apart each name on individual slips of paper. Distribute before the Presente Litany. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Raziq Brown Hunter Jackson and the volunteers with No More Deaths Juliette Hampton Morgan Father Bruno Hussar and the residents of Neve Shalom Ranin Boulos Noam Shuster Juan Elias...

There was something physically different about me. It was easy to see in the day and especially easy to see at night. Others would call me names and laugh at me. Then one foggy night the very thing about me that everyone laughed at was needed....

Parents should carefully monitor how their children use the Internet. School violence is a major problem in this country. Bullying is a normal part of adolescent behavior. Prejudiced people cannot be changed. Jokes that focus on ethnicity, race, or sexual orientation reinforce prejudice....

Read aloud in a calm and reassuring voice. Take a few breaths in and out at an easy pace in order to calm your body and mind. Let your mind wander until you get to a path. This path is peaceful and calm. Allow yourself to walk down the path for a while in your imagination. Go slowly and pay...

Scenario 1: My sister drives me crazy. She just goes along with whatever her friends say. Scenario 2: My history teacher told me that I need to listen more and talk less. That's the same thing my art teacher told me. I do listen. They just ramble on too long. Scenario 3: My dad always talks about...