Cesar Chavez Day Power Point Presentation

Power Point Presentation, Cesar Chavez Day, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Pesticides, Fair Wages, Farms, Migrant Farmworkers, Mexican Americans, Chicano Studies, Ethnic Studies, Heroes, Social Justice, Multicultural Education, Holidays and Celebrations, Birthday, California, Arizona, Politics, US Government, Farm Workers, United Farmworkers Union, Latino, Dolores Huerta, Robert Kennedy, Spanish Language, Cultural studies

26 Slide Power Point Presentation on the Legacy of Cesar Chavez. This presentation was designed to teach the importance of Cesar Chavez's work in improving conditions for farm workers in the United States.

Topics covered within the 24 slides include:
1) Tracing fruits and vegetables from the farm to the grocery store
2) large farm food production
3) need for farm labor and help
4) working conditions
5) pesticide exposure
6) Cesar Chavez utilized non-violent protest modeling the teachings of Gandhi and Martin Luther King
7) boycott, fast, and march
8) additional resources
9) Task Card - Graphic Notes Activity
10) Final Project - Build a Cesar Chavez Memorial