Issues
Voter registration, shortened early voting, and stricter identification requirements are all questions of this issue.
What is Voter Rights
A right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person
What are Human Rights
American teenager who became a warrior for HIV/AIDS in the United States after failing to be re-admitted to school following a diagnosis of AIDS.
Who is Ryan White
Mission: to ensure that every member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
What is GLSEN; Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network
Examples include: books, websites, the news, survey results, and interviews with experts.
What are information sources
Should a business be able to refuse service to a customer if the request conflicts with the owner's religious beliefs is a question of what issue?
What is Religious Freedom
A person who campaigns to bring about political or social change
Who are activists
Pro athlete who knelt during the national anthem at the start of NFL games in protest of police brutality and racial inequality in the United States.
Who is Colin Kaepernick
Mission: to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race.
What is the NAACP; National Associate for the Advancement of Colored People
A project has this if it connects to the real world in a meaningful way.
What is authenticity
The question of "should the government fund Planned Parenthood" is about this issue.
What is Reproductive Rights
A state of affairs in which all people within a specific society or isolated group have the same status, in possible all respects including civil rights, freedom of speech, property rights, and equal access to certain social goods and social services.
What is Social Equality
A child from Maine who at the age of ten, in December 1982, wrote a letter to Soviet Union Leader. She became the youngest Peace Ambassador
Who is Samantha Smith
What we do: our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
What is the ACLU; American Civil Liberties Union
Creating this adds a social dimension to the project
What is a public product
Should transgender students have the right to compete in athletic events, is a question of this issue.
What are Gender Rights
Loosely organized but sustained campaign in support of a social goal, typically either the implementation or the prevention of a change in society’s structure or values
What is Social Movement
A famous singer who uses her fame and voice for social justice causes such as LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS, and Human Rights
Who is Madonna
What we do: our work protects and empowers people - from abolishing the death penalty to protecting sexual and reproductive rights, and from combatting discrimination to defending refugees and migrants’ rights. We speak out for anyone and everyone whose freedom and dignity are under threat.
What is AI; Amnesty International
Educator John Dewey once said “We do not learn from experience, we learn from doing this on experience.”
What is reflecting
The issue around Confederate flags, statues, and soldier names on government property is a topic relating to this issue.
What is The First Amendment
Changes in human interactions and relationships that transform cultural and social institutions. These changes occur over time.
What is Social Change
Environmental activist who began her activism by missing school to protest what she perceives is the inaction and/or insufficient response of governments and the business sector to the United Nations Paris Agreement on climate change.
Who is Greta Thunberg
What we do: our priorities are winning economic equality and securing it with an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will guarantee equal rights for women; championing abortion rights, reproductive freedom and other women’s health issues; opposing racism; fighting bigotry against the LGBTQIA community; and ending violence against women.
What is the NOW; National Organization for Women
The process of asking questions, finding resources to answer them, then asking deeper questions and repeating the process.
What is sustained inquiry