Activities and Assignments

Use the indexes and hyperlinks below to browse through the teaching tools one by one. See also our resource list, syllabus collection and lesson planning suggestions. See the Voices from the Valley Project Director’s personal website and blog, The Long Haul, for more teaching ideas.

List tools by: purpose | format

Purpose	Teaching Tool
Getting to Know the Group’s Experience of the Environment	Circles of My Self Environmental Experience in Pictures Share Squares
Defining Environmental Justice	Environmental Justice, Defined Where Is the Environment and What Do People Do There?
Understanding Your Place in the Environment	Data Detective Environmental Justice Photo-Journals Mapping Your Community My Town, Your Town
Learning from the Life Stories of Others	Circles of My Self Environmental Justice Stories
Analyzing Corporate and Public Documents	Archival Analysis

Format	Teaching Tool
Addition to a lecture	Environmental Justice, Defined (see adaptation) My Town, Your Town (see adaptation) Where Is the Environment and What Do People Do There? (see adaptation)
In-class group activity	Circles of My Self Environmental Experience in Pictures Environmental Justice, Defined Environmental Justice Stories Share Squares
Take-home assignment	Data Detective Mapping Your Community My Town, Your Town
Paper assignment	Archival Analysis
Multi-week project	Environmental Justice Photo-Journals