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Educators, are you looking for a way to center your student’s experiences in Chicago as a platform for exploring and understanding the historical and contemporary forces that created and perpetuated racial residential segregation?
Want a tool for discussing big systemic issues in a way that is personal and inspires action? After watching social justice artist Tonika Johnson’s 30-minute animated movie about her childhood experience with Chicago’s segregation, students are guided through a series of reflections and activities that culminate in an action plan to help disrupt the cycle of segregation in their own lives.
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Teacher Guide
Packed with online resources for teaching about race, racism, and segregation, as well as ideas for how to extend the Folded Map activities presented in the student guide, the Teacher’s Guide retains the spirit of Folded Map as an art project. It’s not a step-by-step instruction book—it’s a spark, a nudge, and a launching pad. We look forward to where you and your students are moved to take it!
More than 40 links to online resources providing historical context, data, teaching tips, and more!
More than 25 additional ‘extension’ ideas for building on the core activities in the Student Guide
Student Guide
This guide provides questions, activities, information—and a movie!—to help students (middle school to adult) center their own experiences to provide a window into understanding the causes and consequences of Chicago’s segregation. And it all builds up to making a plan to take action.
Over 10 activities to spur connections and deepen understanding
A link to a 30 minute animated movie about the origin of Folded Map
2023 "Ideas That Matter" winning design, nationally recognized for projects that 'will make a difference in lives and communities around the world'. •
2023 "Ideas That Matter" winning design, nationally recognized for projects that 'will make a difference in lives and communities around the world'. •
Impactful & Timely
“I work in a private, progressive school on the Northshore. The conversations about inequities are centered in what we do, however, the students struggle to put theory into practice or to see how their decisions and actions impact their community as well as those around them. The ideas and concrete components of this project/curriculum, provide a wonderful, real-life opportunity to put our words into action, to get out, be uncomfortable, and make necessary changes.”
— Laura, Middle School Teacher
Connecting Us
“I really like the prompts that ask students to make connections to their own lives. This kind of writing and assessment is more authentic and the personal connection makes the lesson more relevant and impactful.”
— Chris, High School Teacher