Wangari Maathai
"The myth of male superiority can only be demolished with shining examples of female achievement against which nobody could argue intelligently."
War Relocation Authority Confidential Memo
After some Japanese Americans attempted to challenge the internment policy in the courts, the War Relocation Authority included the following statements in a confidential internal memo on August 12, 1942.
Warning Signs
These subtle clues can help you identify a child in need.
We and Thee
Looking at labels and stereotypes and their effects on students.
We Are the Peacemakers
A biography study of "Great Peacemakers of the World"
Wealth Matters
Classroom experiences that critically investigate the causes and meaning of poverty in our own nation offer students tools for change, and new ways to interpret the world around them.
Welcome to the White House
In this early grades activity, students will discuss the significance of Barack Obama's presidency and create cards welcoming his children to the White House.
What Can We Learn from a Box of Crayons?
Diversity lesson for K-3.
What Do Halloween Costumes Say?
This activity, adaptable across grades, is designed to help students look critically at the Halloween costumes marketed to them. In schools where Halloween is observed, the activity can be used to develop guidelines for acceptable holiday garb.
What Does 'Post Racial' Mean, Anyway?
In this activity, students in the middle and upper grades will explore whether Obama's selection as the next president of the United States marks a new era in America, one where race doesn't matter.
What Is Truth?
In Greensboro, North Carolina, on Nov. 3, 1979, in the absence of a dissuasive police presence, a caravan of white supremacists confronted demonstrators preparing for a “Death to the Klan” rally. The rally was being organized by the Communist Workers Party (CWP), previously known as the Workers Viewpoint Organization (WVO).
What Makes a Family?
Students use the 2010 Census to explore family diversity and the different ways to define a family. They research about the experiences of Michael Oher, a professional football player for the Baltimore Ravens, who scrambled for survival without a family. To wrap up, students create a We Are Family mural to celebrate family diversity.
What Responsibilities Accompany Our Rights?
This lesson explores the importance of citizens fulfilling responsibilities in order to protect their rights -- and the rights of others. (Grades 4-6)
What We Learn From Women and Girls
Many schools observe Women's History Month as a way to highlight contributions women have made in the past. This month, Mix It Up encourages you to help students explore the positive impact of girls and women on their own lives and communities today.
What's a Teacher to Do?
Here are five things you can do to make your classroom respectful and culturally sensitive.
White Anti-Racism: Living the Legacy
What does "white anti-racist" mean? How can guilt get in the way? And what's all this talk about being "colorblind"? Teaching Tolerance asked community activists to share their thoughts on these questions, and others. Their answers shine light on the concepts of comfort, power, privilege and identity.
White Anti-Racist Biographies: Early Grades
For young white students, explorations of fair and unfair, just and unjust, can go a long way in advancing anti-racist white identity. Purposeful use of literature and basic study of white anti-racists are among the key ways educators can advance such aims.
Teaching Tolerance presents 4 short biographies for early grades classrooms, with activity ideas.
Whiteness and Anti-Racism: Early Grades Literature Recommendations
Literature selections to help young white children see racism and bigotry and understand how they can take a stand against it.
Who Are the Arab Americans?
Since the September 11th terrorist attacks, Arab Americans have been the targets of profound bias, harassment and hate crimes. Ongoing conflicts in the Middle East only exacerbate stereotypes about people of Arab descent. This activity can help students overcome misperceptions of this ethnic group.
Who Doesn’t Count?
In this lesson students will do research to find out who aren’t/what isn’t being represented by the 2010 census. This may include ethnic groups who are forced to choose the “other” category or write in their heritage under the question on race. It can also include undocumented immigrants, homeless people and transgender individuals, all who will find there is no way to indicate their specific experiences on the upcoming census. This activity is designed to improve students' understanding of issues relating to the upcoming census.
Who Has Hair?
Who Has Hair? explores one of the things mammals share in common: hair! Our hair may be different—Polar Bear's doesn't look exactly like Orangutan's or like yours— but we all have hair and want it to be clean and pretty.
Why Frogs and Snakes Never Play Together
This Pourquoi of Prejudice is used to promote tolerance in the classroom.
Will and Reason
Utilizing Shakespeare and theater to examine modern day violence.
Win-win: Guest Artist Programs Pay Off for Students and Teachers
Strong results from a guest artist program last year made a believer of Principal Gregory Hodge of the Frederick Douglass Academy, a college preparatory school in Harlem.
Women and Political Power
The struggle for women's equality isn't over. Use these resources in your classroom to discuss the modern-day fight for political equality.
Women Making Change, Women Forging Hope
Teaching Tolerance has teamed with Bread and Roses, the cultural arm of local 1199, the National Health & Human Service Employees Union of the AFL-CIO to present the International Women of Hope Project.
Women Who Inform Our World
Many schools observe Women's History Month as a way to highlight contributions women have made in the past. This month, Mix It Up encourages you to help students explore the positive impact of girls and women on their own lives and communities today.
Word Origins
Activity exchange grades 9-12 to help students understand the words and phrases they use.
Worker Exploitation Today: A Lesson from Viva La Causa
Students will understand that the struggle for worker justice continues.
Writing Persuasive Letters About Immigration Reform
Latino workers from Central and South America, as well as Mexico, have long been part of the workforce in the U.S. In response to recent calls for immigration reform, President Bush has proposed a new temporary worker program. There's just one catch -- it would be based on existing guest worker initiatives, which civil rights advocates say are rife with abuse. (Grades 6-9)