Justice

26 March 2013 The purpose of these lessons is to help students think about how to resolve difficult ethical decisions related to ...

26 March 2013 This is the third lesson of the series “ Dealing with Dilemmas: Upstanders, Bystanders and Whistle-Blowers ,” which is ...

22 March 2013 This is the second lesson of the series “ Dealing with Dilemmas: Upstanders, Bystanders and Whistle-Blowers .” ...

20 March 2013 This is the first lesson of the series “ Dealing with Dilemmas: Upstanders, Bystanders and Whistle-Blowers ,” ...

Objectives Activities meet the following objectives: define atheism recognize that atheists have been the targets of discrimination read and discuss documents that protect the freedom of religious and nonreligious thought ...

Objectives Activities meet the following objectives: define atheism recognize that atheists have been the targets of discrimination understand that respecting nonbelievers is as important as respecting people of different religious ...

Objectives Activities meet the following objectives: learn what atheism is learn that atheists have been the targets of discrimination respond constructively to people who have been targets of discrimination Activities ...

25 January 2013 Honoring the far-reaching contribution of women authors. In her book Silences , first ...

24 January 2013 The history of a proud indigenous people during WWII. Poised in the midst of Beringia, about ...

11 January 2013 This lesson is part of The Role of Gay Men and Lesbians in the Civil Rights Movement series. This series ...

2 January 2013 Many accounts about the civil rights movement discuss class and gender tension within the African-American Freedom Struggle. However, the issue of sexuality, and the ...

This lesson is part of The Little Rock Battle for School Integration series, which introduces students to the actors and events central to the 1957 Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis. ...

This lesson is part of The Little Rock Battle for School Integration series. The series introduces students to the actors and events central the 1957 Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis.  ...

This is the thirteenth lesson in the Reading Ads with a Social Justice Lens series.   This final lesson gives students a chance to reflect on what they have learned. Drama offers a wonderful way for ...

This is the twelfth lesson in the Reading Ads with a Social Justice Lens series.   As children learn about justice and injustice, and become increasingly aware of stereotypes and bias in the world ...

This is the sixth lesson in the Reading Ads with a Social Justice Lens series.   Advertisements’ biased representations can affect our perceptions of others. For example, ads may show some groups ...

This lesson is the fifth in the Readings Ads with a Social Justice Lens series.   If advertisements can perpetuate stereotypes, they also have the power to break them down. Children are sensitive ...

Advertisements do more than just sell products; they play a role in creating and perpetuating stereotypes as well. We can reduce the power advertisements have to reinforce stereotypes by teaching children ...

Media plays a powerful role in perpetuating stereotypes. Children must learn to think carefully and independently about the messages in advertisements. By learning about the concept of stereotypes and the ...

Children are surrounded – and targeted – by advertisements: on television, the computer, even on their journeys to and from school. Children need specific strategies for reading and talking about ...

As students learn to be critical readers and thinkers, it is important that they learn how to read and respond to everyday media. Throughout the series , students will practice the strategies developed in ...

Children see and hear advertisements constantly. Television shows, radio stations, websites, even most streets and sidewalks are peppered with advertisements. Children need to be explicitly taught about these ...

This lesson is part of a series called “ Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice. ”  The series introduces students to African-American civil rights activists who may be ...

This lesson is part of a series called “Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice.” The series introduces students to African-American civil rights activists who may be ...

Most history textbooks include a section about Rosa Parks in the chapter on the modern civil rights movement. Students are familiar with her story: Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give up her seat ...

This is the fourth lesson in the series Female Identity and Gender Expectations. Enacted in 1972, Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972, (also called Title IX) has been credited with raising the opportunity of girls and women in educational ...

This lesson is the third in the series Female Identity and Gender Expectations. In this lesson, students will explore their assumptions about what kind of work they do and will do. They will also explore how these expectations relate to gender by ...

Although many girls today  challenge the stereotype  that they can’t excel at math and science, these same girls may not see themselves pursuing careers in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering and math. In this lesson, students read about ...

The four lessons in this unit explore different aspects of gender for today’s girls and women. Each lesson identifies barriers that limit girls’ and women’s opportunities and asks students to explore how those ...

Wikipedia, the web-based collaborative encyclopedia, was created as an “open” project—a text to which everybody could contribute. There were no obvious barriers to the concept, but a problem quickly became clear—there were few female contributors. In ...