Persuasive Letter Writing Examples
Give students the appropriate letter writing model for their ability, and help them understand how to write an effective persuasive letter.
Persuasive Letter Planning Aid
Give students this planning aid to help them structure and write a persuasive letter.
Exploring Justice Anticipation Guide
Students reflect on the concept of justice by deciding if they agree or disagree with a set of statements.
Challenging Injustice Anticipation Guide
Students reflect on approaches to challenging injustice by deiciding if they agree or disagree with a set of statements.
Defining Confirmation Bias
Reporters and media professionals define the term “confirmation bias,” and discuss its effect on how people approach and evaluate news and other information.
Student Activities: The Ethics of Generative AI in the Classroom
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These are the student-facing slides for the mini-lesson “The Ethics of Generative AI in the Classroom.” Students learn about tools such as ChatGPT and DALL-E and consider norms around their use in schools.
Action Project Planning Tool
Design your Choosing to Participate civic action project using this planning tool.
Facing History Hacks: Connecting Social Justice, History, and Technology
San Francisco Bay Area teens explore ways technology can be used for social justice and community engagement at Facing History’s first ever Civic Hackathon hosted by Brocade.
Power and Choices Anticipation Guide
Students decide if they agree or disagree with a set of statements about the different ways to make change.
Analyzing Choices and Consequences in Warriors Don’t Cry
Use the handout to find and record evidence to analyze the range of responses to desegregation in Little Rock.
Iceberg Diagram Template
Students use this handout to explore the multiple causal factors behind an event from history, the present, or literature, using the visual of an iceberg.