Black Lives Matter (Teaching with the News)

Black Lives Matter (Teaching with the News)

Looking for Open Education Resources (OERs) to incorporate into your curriculum? Brown University's Choices Program offers "Teaching with the News" online lessons that connect the content of your classroom to headlines in the news. Topics cover a range of domestic, foreign policy, and international issues. The Choices Program also produces short videos featuring leading experts — professors, policy makers, journalists, activists, and artists — answering questions that complement the curricular resources. Videos are tailored to fit a range of learning styles and abilities. For more information on these OER materials as well as longer curriculum units, visit http://www.choices.edu.For example, “Teaching with the News” offers “Black Lives Matter: Continuing the Civil Rights Movement,” which gives students insight into black activism throughout history by exploring its roots. Using an interactive timeline to examine significant events (1950s to the present), students are able to better understand the complex history and positions of activists today. For more information, visit http://www.choices.edu/resources/twtn/twtn-black-lives-matter.php.