Additional Resources

Facing History and Ourselves

Contains lesson plans and resources to use to build out your own lessons

LGBTQ History and Why It MattersStudents learn about two millennia of LGBTQ history and reflect on how that history is represented in their textbooks and curricula.

Blow the Whistle on Name Calling (can be taught as a lesson or used for school-wide programming such as Student advisory)

Blow the Whistle on Name-Calling Grades 6-12

Magna Carta (where people were first given right separation of church and state)

Discusses how this document created a separation of church and state (the first step to our constitution and modern day human rights)

Human rights legislationFor 800 years, Magna Carta has inspired those struggling for rights and freedoms, and many of its core principles are echoed in contemporary human rights legislation. Here Professor Hugh Starkey explores Magna Carta’s legacy as reflected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Iceberg Strategy

(a helpful way to teach students to consider cause for social events as well in the impact on groups of individuals within a society)

Iceberg DiagramsEncourage students to recognize the multiple causal factors behind an event from history, the present, or literature, using the visual of an iceberg.

Ally or Bystander

Lesson on Being an Ally Instead of a bystander

Lesson_ on not being a bystandernAlly_or_Bystander.pdf

One Archives Foundation

Lesson plans that integrate fair, accurate, inclusive, and respectful representations of the LGBTQ community and people with disabilities into social studies, history and ELA classrooms.

Teaching Tolerance

Multiple resources for grades 6-12 that cover LGBTQIA. Website also allows you to create a learning plan with suggested questions and activities. Please note you must first create a free account.

www.tolerance.org/

American Civil Liberties Union

Multiple articles on LGBTQ current events.

LGBT RightsThe ACLU has a long history of defending the LGBTQ community. We brought our first LGBTQ rights case in 1936 and founded the LGBTQ Project in 1986. Today, the ACLU brings more LGBTQ cases and advocacy initiatives than any other national organization does. With our reach into the courts and legislatures of every state, there is no other organization that can match our record of making progress both in the courts of law and in the court of public opinion.Need help? fill out our confidential online formFor non-LGBTQ issues, please contact your local ACLU affiliate.The ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Project seeks to create a just society for all LGBTQ people regardless of race or income. Through litigation, lobbying, public education, and organizing, we work to build a country where our communities can live openly without discrimination and enjoy equal rights, personal autonomy, and freedom of expression and association.

Live Out Loud

Lesson Plans for Gay Straight Alliances, Diversity Clubs, and Other School Groups Promoting Tolerance

Instructional Resources for LGBTQ History, Inclusion, Awareness and Sensitivity Training

Includes Lesson plans for grades 6-12 as well as additional resources

LGBTQ Pride Month and Education Resources

includes lesson on hate crimes, discrimination and hate crimes that led to legal changes

LGBTQ Pride Month and Education ResourcesLesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month (LGBTQ Pride Month) is celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City.

Lessons on Using the Right Pronouns

Including why it matter and how to know

What’s in a Pronoun?: Resources and Activities on Third-Person, Gender- Neutral Pronouns - KeshetWhat’s in a Pronoun?: Resources and Activities on Third-Person, Gender- Neutral Pronouns Assembled by Dubbs Weinblatt, Essie Shachar-Hill, and Jacob Klein WHAT’S A PRONOUN? Pronouns are words used to talk about a person instead of using that person’s name. For example, instead of saying, “Moishe’s challah is amazing because Moishe uses Moishe’s own special...

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