Hairy Tales
I capitalized on my 10th-graders’ obsession with their hair by devising a writing exercise that I hoped would open a dialogue between my black and white students. As part of a unit on individuality, I had them write a “hair-ography”—an autobiography told from the viewpoint of one’s hair.
Hanan Ashrawi
"I am not a politician by choice. Instead I try to pursue the objective of institution building, an essential component of the reconstruction of our nation."
Happy Faces
Everyone has a bad day once in a while. This activity helps students be sensitive to schoolmates who might be having a bad day and gives them a way to cross boundaries and bring cheer to others.
Harvesting Activities
Ethnobotany, a specialized field of science that studies the interrelationships between humans and plants, can provide a "hook" for exploring and understanding cultural diversity and ethnic traditions. Social studies themes offer another springboard for exploring the historical relationships that different cultural communities have with plants.
Hidden Homophobia Unit
The complete outline of Sarah Arnold's unit on hidden homophobia.
Highlighting Gender
Early grades activity designed to confront gender stereotypes.
Holding Onto Heritage: Native Whale Hunts & Diversity
As the nation observes Native American Heritage Month, Teaching Tolerance offers a wealth of activity ideas tied to Thanksgiving, Native mascots and indigenous people's proud heritage of resistance.
In this activity, students will explore diverse points of view about the 1999 Makah whale hunt and draft letters to the editor about community support for diversity.
Holiday Charity: A Math Activity About Poverty
The holiday season often marks the launch of toy and canned food drives in schools. Use this activity to deepen students understanding of those being served and the dynamics of poverty in the U.S.
Holiday Stereotyping Activity
What can Santa teach us about stereotypes? In this lesson, students will explore the way clothing can influence our perceptions of one another.
Holocaust Art Education Project
Holocaust study encourages discussion about what it means to be a responsible citizen.
Holocaust Education: Pink Triangles
Speaker shows significance of symbol while giving a face to gay "category."
Home Was a Horse Stall
This true story is about the internment of a Japanese American family during World War II.
Homophobia Quiz
In her unit on homophobia, Sarah Arnold used the following assignment to help students think more deeply about their own biases.
Honoring Home Languages
Teachers are often a young immigrant's first regular, ongoing contact with someone outside their home community and culture. It's a relationship that can provide the emotional scaffolding necessary to cross the linguistic and cultural divide between country of origin and country of residency.
How Do Families See Your School?
In its free publication, “Choosing a School for Your Child” the U.S. Department of Education advises parents and guardians to look for 10 things
How Do We Get Along?
A lesson that encourages students to examine what it means to relate to others
How Schools Can Help
Four steps schools districts should take to increase opportunities for black students.
How Stereotypes Undermine Test Scores
Subtle changes in test environments can improve standardized test scores among students of color and girls.
How to use Chicken Soup in the classroom
Before Reading the Story
How to ‘Roar’
Tips for using grassroots organizing to engage your school’s parents.
Identifying And Responding To Bias Incidents
A bias incident is conduct, speech or expression motivated, in whole or in part, by bias or prejudice.
Identity Posters
Posters put a stop to teasing as students learn more about each other.
Immigrants and Us
Almost every person in the U.S. has an immigration history, whether in the distant familial past or in more recent times. As a nation of immigrants, the United States has long struggled with how best to create unity within a pluralistic society, as typified in the motto on the Great Seal of the United States (and the dollar bill): E Pluribus Unum.
In Search of Balance
Teaching Tolerance offers tools to help teachers and students get through the grueling and seemingly unrewarding weeks of mandated testing.
In this special excerpt from Rethinking Schools' The New Teacher Book, Kelley Dawson Salas shares how her school -- a school "in need of improvement" -- came to terms with the tests.
In-Group Favoritism
This activity looks at the way in-group favoritism hurts instead of heals the conflicts we might have with each other.
Inaugural Prayers in History
In this lesson for grades 9-12, students will examine the practice of including prayers in inaugural ceremonies, focusing on the messages these presidential selections send about diversity and faith in American life.
Injustice on our Plates
From Viva La Causa, our teaching kit about César Chávez and the Delano Strike and Grape Boycott, this lesson examines consumer support of the ongoing struggles for justice and fairness.
Interactive Reader
National Board Certified 6th Grade teacher, Talitha Simeona-Moon, describes how she uses interactive reading to engage her students and increase their higher order thinking skills.