Cultural Studies Lesson Planning Resources
Darfur is Dying (game and lesson plans)
Foodforce (game and lesson plans)
The Real Cost of Prisons Project
Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline
Take Part Social Action Network
Media That Matters (Shorts films on cultural studies topics/issues by teachers, students, non-profits, media makers, and activists)
TeachKind (Yes, it's a PETA website. However, there are a ton of free resources that are worth looking at!)
Sojust.net- Social Justice History in Historic Speeches, Songs, Documents, and Literature
Revolutionary Educator Support Networks
Teachers for Social Justice Chicago
New York Collective of Radical Teachers (These teachers have created an amazing plan book!)
Rethinking Schools (Wonderful resources for all subjects)
Teaching Tolerance (Free classroom kits and lesson plan ideas)
Reading Rockets (very helpful information on helping students with reading)
Go Beyond the PowerPoint Presentation Project
xtranormal (Text to movie)
Animoto (educators can get free accounts)
Storybird (students can make picture books online)
Audacity (Free audio recording and download)
Use Technology in Your Lesson Planning
Thinkfold (great for collaboration with colleagues)
Mindmeister (great for collaboration with colleagues and prewriting)
Erasures (take any text and from it, create a poem)
Illuminated Texts (see an example of an illuminated text here)
Library of Congress (American Memory is a great resource)
Noodle Tools (lots of helpful applications for students and teachers)
Poll Everywhere (cell phone polling)
National Public Radio (helpful in linking cultural studies curriculum to the news)
Seussville (there is a lot of helpful tools and fun things on this site for students and teachers)
Ducksters (good for science, history, geography, biographies and even has some fun games!)
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Online Literary Archives (Audio books included)
Google Directory of Electronic Text Archives