IE Stories represents a distinctive collaboration among teachers, history educators, and historians affiliated with the UCLA History-Geography Project, UC Riverside, Cal State San Bernardino, University of Redlands, the Civil Rights Institute Inland Southern California, and the Relevancy & History Project. The initiative aims to develop lesson plans that focus on various historical narratives of the Inland Empire, utilizing the archives and resources provided by the partnering organizations. These lesson plans are crafted by local K-12 history and Ethnic Studies teachers, specifically designed for K-12 Ethnic Studies and History-Social Studies educators. They will include both primary and secondary sources, literacy strategies, historical thinking concepts, and practices rooted in culturally responsive teaching.
Curriculum
IE Stories: Using Local Narratives in K-12 Instruction
Introduction to IE Stories
Indigenous History & the Sherman Institute
The Borderlands of Race, Place, and Citizenship in Riverside’s Citruscape
Mexican & Latinx Civil Rights in the IE
AAPI Histories in the Inland Empire
The Eastside Sound: Music and Culture as acts of Resistance in the Inland Empire
Lessons
Grade 3
How can we continue to help preserve our communities’ stories?
Grade 11
How did Latinx Riversiders Create a Thriving Community at the Beginning of the 20th Century?
Grade 12
What did housing segregation look like in the Inland Empire in the 1920s-1970’s?
Ethnic Studies
How have shifts in land use in and around Mira Loma, CA contributed to evolving social justice movements?