Many organizations are creating lesson plans related to multi-faith learning and social studies. Below, we’ve curated a few such organizations and relevant lesson plans. It’s a work in progress, and we are always looking for suggestions for additions and improvements. If you have a lesson plan you’d like to share or reviews of any of the lesson plans posted below, we’d like to hear from you. Please reach out on our contact page.

Zinn Education Project

• • Poetry of Defiance: How the Enslaved Resisted (middle school / high school)
  • Andrew Jackson and the “Children of the Forest” (middle school / high school)
  • Salt of the Earth: Grounds Students in Hope
  • Teaching Sacrifice Zones
  • Discovering Columbus: Re-Reading the Past 
  • No Option Except Escape: A Role Play on the Struggle of Refugees
  • Reconstructing Race: A Teacher Introduces His Students to the Slippery Concept of Race
  • Rethinking the Teaching of the Vietnam War
    • Rethinking What What We Know About the Vietnam War (Extension)
    • Teaching the Vietnam War: Beyond the Headlines (Extension)
  • School Days: Hail, Hail, Rock ‘n’ Roll!
  • “Why is this the Only Place in Portland I See Black People?”: Teaching Young Children About Redlining (Elementary)
  • Hunger on Trial: An Activity on the Irish Potato Famine and Its Meaning for Today
  • Seneca Falls, 1848: Women Organize for Equality
  • Reconstructing the South: A Role Play (Middle / High School)
  • Congo, Coltan, and Cell Phones: A People’s History
  • Who Fought to End Slavery? Meet the Abolitionists
  • COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI’s War on the Black Freedom Movement (Middle / High School) (Islam)
  • Whose “Terrorism”? (Islam)
  • Unsung Heroes: Encouraging Students to Appreciate Those Who Fought For Justice (Islam)
  • Meet Today’s Climate Justice Activists: A Mixer on the People Saving the World (Islam)
  • What We Don’t Learn about the Black Panther Party — but Should (Islam)
  • A Revolution of Values (Spirituality)
  • The People vs. Columbus, et al. (Spirituality)
  • Standing with Standing Rock: A Role Play on the Dakota Access Pipeline (Spirituality)
  • ‘Don’t Take Our Voices Away’: A Role Play on the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change (Spirituality)
  • How to Make Amends: A Lesson on Reparations (Spirituality)

Teaching for Justice

Religious Education

• Museum of the Cherokee Indian – Cherokee, NC (Education Resources)