Environment and Elections-Lesson Plans for Earth Day and Beyond

As Earth Day approaches, lesson plans on the Flint Water crisis provide an interesting perspective

Flint Water Crisis 

Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center has a lesson plan on Progressive City Planners
http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/progressive-city-planners  with these objectives:

Objectives:

Students will:

• Consider how our society is divided by race and class and consider the stark differences in treatment within communities
• Evaluate previous biases against people of color and working-class communities.
• Analyze the impact of environmental racism on the health and well-being of communities of color
• Create a vision of a more just and equitable society

Another environmental lesson plan was included in this blog's post

http://educationservicesnews.blogspot.com/2009/04/earth-day-research-project.html

The Teachable Moment

The Teachable Moment a project of the Morningside Center

has the following lesson plan  and readings specifically on the crisis

http://morningsidecenter.org/teachable-moment/lessons/flint-water-crisis-environmental-racism-work

Elections 

The Teachable Moment also has lessons on the current elections
http://www.morningsidecenter.org/search/node/elections%20type%3Ateachable_moment_lesson

Teaching Tolerance has lesson plans on past election and voters' rights concerns
http://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources?keys=elections&type=All&topic=All&grade=All&domain=All&subject=All

For more lesson plan websites and other materials   check this bibliography
http://www.njcu.edu/guarini/department/EdServiceBib/LessonPlans.pdf