Grades 3 to 5

Celebrating Connections: Activity

This activity can help students understand the similarities and differences in various religious traditions. Perspective In the following activity, students will look at ...
Allies: A Discussion Activity: Activity

Educator and author Mara Sapon-Shevin offers strategies and ideas to help students become allies -- people who stand with or for others. After leading students in a discussion about ...
Bullying: Tips for Students: Activity

This checklist provides suggestions for what kids can do when bullying occurs – written for students being bullied, students who witness bullying and the bullies themselves. If you ...
The Geography of Diversity: Activity Exchange

Ancestry study opens the door for geography lesson To raise geographic awareness, I asked my 4th-grade students to research their ancestry. As students identified various countries ...
Readers' Theater: Activity Exchange

Readers theater group helps spread message about bullying As a junior high counselor with a background in theater, I always am searching for new ways to incorporate ...
Defining Multicultural Terminology: Activity Exchange

As a veteran teacher of English, literature and history, I have employed many different lessons to encourage my students to seek understanding of other cultures. To this end, I ...
'I Am Special': Activity Exchange

I begin my lesson by telling students that we're going to have a guessing game with only two hints. They are to guess what subject we're going to be discussing by first listening to two stories. The ...
This Land Is Ours: Activity

Native Americans resist the U.S. government's policy of forced removal in the 19th century. Native Americans' identities have always been closely linked to the land. ...
Social Boundaries Activity: Map It Out: Activity

Teachers and students draw maps showing where they think social divisions exist at school, and compare views of the community as a whole. Materials Art supplies ...
White Anti-Racist Biographies: Early Grades: Activity

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 ...
Stay in the Mix for Valentine's Day: Activity

Celebrate Valentine's legacy of love and resistance! Did you know ... The origins of the Valentine's Day holiday are rooted in resisting injustice. Most stories ...
Stay in the Mix with Music!: Activity

Explore how music divides - and unites. Who: All people who love music What: Music In Our Schools Month When: All month long Websites: Music for All ...
Stay in the Mix During National Poetry Month!: Activity

How to use the written word to highlight, and counteract, social boundaries. Who: Everyone who loves words What: The free expression of poetry to communicate the power of ...
Anti-Racism Activity: The Sneetches: Lesson

In this early grades activity, students learn about unfair practices in a simulation exercise and then create plans to stand up against discrimination. Perspective Before ...
What Do Halloween Costumes Say?: Lesson

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 ...
Papalotzin y las monarcas: Discussion Questions: Activity

Discussion questions for Papalotzin and the Monarchs / Papalotzin y las monarcas . Discussion Questions How do you think the Great North felt about the Great South ...
Music for Justice: Activity

This activity focuses on musical explorations building on justice and inclusion themes. Perspective Before conducting this activity, provide students with historical ...
Why Frogs and Snakes Never Play Together: Lesson

This Pourquoi of Prejudice is used to promote tolerance in the classroom. The Plot A chance meeting of a family of frogs and a family of snakes in the woods one day ...
Classroom Community Building: Activity

Activities for all grades to build community in your class this year. Early Grades • At Kensington Avenue School in Springfield, Mass., teachers build community every day ...
Playing the Bully Card: Activity Exchange

Teaching students how to stand up to bullying behavior, particularly when that means asking the teacher or another adult to intervene, can be a challenge. Sometimes, students lack ...
The Philosopher's Stone: Activity Exchange

In my classroom, we engage in an activity that allows students to voice their ever-growing opinions about fairness and justice in a manner that not only promotes writing and oral skills but also fosters the ...
Gender Stereotyping: Activity Exchange

As a school counselor on a K-8 campus, I prepare classroom guidance lessons for all students on topics of tolerance. At the beginning of a new school year, I like to introduce students to the adults on campus. ...
Making Cents of Privilege: Activity Exchange

I work with upper-middle-class students, and it is sometimes difficult for them to understand that not all children have access to the same opportunities they have regarding dining out, participating in ...
Coalescing Across the Globe: Activity Exchange

Activity exchange to explore global differences through pen pals. One of park day school's central values places knowledge -- people's ideas, histories, religions and ...
One Survivor Remembers: A Call to Action: Lesson

This lesson is an excerpt from the teacher’s guide of One Survivor Remembers , a teaching kit built around the incredible life story of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein. ...
Totally Us: Activity

Totally Us is a classroom activity developed from Totally Joe . Objectives Students will develop name biographies together in groups of four Students will see that ...
Cooperative Comics: Activity

Comic books are visual literature. This simple cooperative group activity allows students to identify confrontational issues within their own school and then imagine solutions. ...
Community Through Photography: Activity Exchange

Reporting on their communities helps students recognize problems and find strategies for change. The communities we live in determine a good part of our lives. This is especially ...
Assessing Access: Lesson

Children often lack knowledge and skills necessary to interact with each other, especially when confronted with differences in mobility, hearing, sight, developmental skills or verbal skills. ...
Civil Rights and Americans with Disabilities: Lesson

Classroom activities examining the Civil Rights Act and ADA. Despite its frequent omission from textbooks, the struggle for equity and inclusion for people with disabilities ...

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