Reform to Equal Rights

K-12 Disability History Curriculum - FALL 2022 DRAFT

Final Version is now on the Emerging America website.

Fall 2022 curriculum pilot:

Submit input: https://bit.ly/ReformtoEqualRights-2022Pilot

Questions? Email Rich Cairn: rcairn@collaborative.org

Lesson Plans

RER Unit Overview - Grades K1 - 2-3 Disability and Community Leadership.

Includes thumbnail images of primary sources and citations.

Grades K-3 - Lesson 1: How Can We Include Everyone

LINK: HOW CAN WE INCLUDE EVERYONE SLIDES

Grades K-1 - Lesson 2: What Makes a Good Leader?

LINK: WHAT MAKES A GOOD LEADER? SLIDES

Grades 2-3 Advocate for Access and for Rights

LINK: ADVOCATE FOR ACCESS AND FOR RIGHTS SLIDES

RER Unit Overview - Grades 4-5 Civics: Disability, Citizenship, and Civil Rights - CES

Includes thumbnail images of primary sources and citations.

Grades 4-5 - Lesson 1: What Is "Disability"?

LINK: WHAT IS DISABILITY SLIDES

Grades 4-5 - Lesson 2: Immigration: Who Is In? And Who Is Out?

LINK: IMMIGRATION - WHO IS IN? AND WHO IS OUT? SLIDES

Grades 4-5 - Lesson 3: History of the Disability Rights Movement

LINK: HISTORY OF DISABILITY RIGHTS SLIDES

Grades 4-5 - Lesson 4: How Disability Activists Created Change

RER Unit Overview - Grades 6-8 Civics: Disability, Civic Engagement, and Government

Includes thumbnail images of primary sources and citations.

Grades 6-8 - Lesson 1: What Are Disability Rights?

Grades 6-8 - Lesson 2: Disability Rights Activism

Grades 6-8 - Lesson 3: Disability Rights Legislation

Grades 6-8 - Lesson 5: Supreme Court Case: Olmstead v. L.C.

Civics Projects Lesson Plan (one lesson for grades 6-12)

Grades 6-8 - Lesson 4: Disability Rights Civics Projects

and

Grades 9-12 - Disability Rights Civics Projects

Grades 8-10 - Founding of Schools and Asylums - Lesson 1: Disability and 19th Century Moral Reformers

LINK: DISABILITY AND 19TH CENTURY MORAL REFORMERS SLIDES

Grades 8-10 - Founding of Schools and Asylums - Lesson 2 - Perspectives on Schools and Asylums

LINK: PERSPECTIVES ON INSTITUTIONALIZATION SLIDES

Grades 8-10 Civil War and Disability - Lesson 1: A Nation Shocked by War

LINK: A NATION SHOCKED BY WAR SLIDES

Grades 8-10 Civil War and Disability - Lesson 2: Care for Wounded and Disabled Soldiers

LINK: CARE FOR WOUNDED AND DISABLED SOLDIERS SLIDES

Grades 8-10 Civil War and Disability - Lesson 3: Stories of Men and Women Who Served

LINK: MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVED SLIDES

Grade 8-10 Civil War and Disability - Lesson 4: Agents of Care

Grade 8-10 Civil War and Disability - Lesson 5: Veterans Today

Online Exhibit:

How Civil War Veterans Transformed Disability

Introduction to Disability History

LINK: HIGH SCHOOL INTRO TO DISABILITY HISTORY SLIDES

Grades 9-12 - Progressive Era Lesson 1: The Dehumanizing Effects of Eugenics

LINK: DEHUMANIZING EFFECTS OF EUGENICS SLIDES

Grades 9-12 - The Long Struggle - Lesson 1: The Roots of the Disability Rights Movement

LINK: ROOTS OF DISABILITY RIGHTS SLIDES

Grades 9-12 - The Long Struggle - Lesson 2: Research and Share the Causes and Course of the Disability Rights Movement

June 30, 2022 Workshop Activities

Workshop Slides
QFT form
Veterans Institution Impacts Notes form
Link to June 30, 2022 talk by Graham Warder: "Massachusetts and the Experience of Civil War Disability"
Short survey Teaching Disability History in the U.S. (We will reopen for 2023 in April.)

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