Zinn Education Project
The Zinn Education Project aims to teach students history in a way not accomplished by traditional textbooks, through downloadable lessons and teacher guides, while also fighting for and inspiring social justice. The Zinn Education Project creates comprehensive history lessons for students to truly understand historically underrepresented narratives in traditional teaching methods, such as textbooks, and empowers teachers to then empower their students through a variety of engaging lesson types. Founder William Holtzman wanted to teach students history in the way former Boston University professor and activist Howard Zinn taught his classes: by teaching "people's history" in a way that immerses students in a variety of perspectives. Teachers can download free lessons and lesson guides from the Zinn Education Project website to share with their students. They are organized by time period, theme, and a variety of social justice campaigns that the project has started. Teachers love the Zinn Education Project because it exposes students to a variety of historically marginalized or undermentioned perspectives that ultimately allow them to learn history in a more accurate, intellectually-challenging, and empowering way. It also provides the whole social studies curriculum so teachers don't have to combine it with any of their own lessons; everything is included. Some people believe that the social-justice approach to history that the Zinn Education Project is championing is too biased and furthers a politica agenda rather than a comprehensive social studies education. This resource is mainly for teachers to use in classrooms, but parents can download certain lessons or curricula for homeschooling or supplemental learning at home.
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Cost: Almost all of the lessons and lesson guides are free to download.
OTHER DETAILS
Key features
Type of Tool: Textbook
Time required: Students can spend up to a class period using a lesson from the Zinn Education Project in their social studies classes.
Special Needs:
Literacy Requirement (does a child need to know how to read): Yes
Screens
Screens: No screens
Online requirement: Yes, it can be used offline
Time
Parent/Caregiver Involvement: Parent/Teacher/Caregiver Involvement is necessary
Prep Time: Minimal prep time
Other characteristics
Modality: Audio, Visual, Audiovisual, Multimedia, Hands-on/kinesthetic
Adaptive: No, it is the same for every student
Educational Philosophy: "teaching outside the textbook"
Other characteristics: Hands-on, Inclusive of diverse viewpoints and perspectives, Fun and entertaining, Inquiry-based learning/Socratic
Accountability
Assessment: No, there is no assessment component
State Standards: unsure
Teacher Accounts: No
Read Reviews: https://www.zinnedproject.org/why/what-teachers-are-saying/
GET Zinn Education Project
