Our Comprehensive Units are teacher handbooks that include stories, activities and resources that engage all types of learners. These resources are designed for traditional classroom settings and provide a cultural immersion experience, well-researched content, multifaceted, authentic activities (spanning all intelligences and content areas), discussion questions and vocabulary words, hundreds of additional resources listed and linked, and comprehensive lists of theme-appropriate picture books.
Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, took a simple idea and used it to create lasting impact. When she saw how deforestation was degrading both the landscape and the lives of Kenya’s rural people, Maathai created a tree-planting movement that quickly spread across Kenya and empowered thousands of women to unite together in a way that changed the face of their country, and the world!
This unit focuses on slavery in the United States and the origins and development of racism against the country’s Black community. John Woolman and Sojourner Truth – a White man and a Black woman – are Peace Heroes who dared to defy the widespread practice of slavery and dedicated their lives to working for its abolition.
This unit focuses on the years following the abolition of slavery, when Black citizens of the United States found that, even in freedom, they were far from sharing an equal status with the nation’s non-Black citizens. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. are two Black Peace Heroes who refused to let the systems of inequality break their spirit but instead chose – in big and small ways – to stand up for the rights and freedom of their community
This bundle combines our two U.S. units and includes the BONUS Celebrate Diversity: United States Cultural Immersion unit that celebrates the diversity of American culture. The bundle includes stories of FOUR American Peace Heroes who dared to defy the racist system of their day while working to build a more just society.