Grades 6 to 8

Students sit at tables with students they don’t usually sit with. One person says a word that will start a sentence. The next person chooses a word to be the next word in the ...

Based on Icebreakers and Introductions Each person writes down four facts about himself or herself, one of which is not true. Each person takes turns reading his or her list ...

Based on Crossing Borders/Border Crossings and What's In a Name?" Have students go around their table and introduce themselves, and tell people about their name. ...

Loosely based on "What Are You?" Students bring a photograph to school with them that shows someone or something important to them. It might be a picture of them at an ...

Based on Mixing It Up with Purpose As students enter the cafeteria, give each student a playing card. Tell them to sit at a table where everyone has a card of the same suit or at ...

In this lesson, students will explore what teen rights actually are. They will also read about some recent cases where teens felt their rights were violated. Students will debate the nature of rights ...

This lesson has students distinguish between charity (volunteering in a soup kitchen) and justice (working to end the inequalities that make soup kitchens necessary). It asks students to think about root ...

One language arts educator's guidance for her new students. 10. Remain calm. Try to avoid banging your head against the table (or the wall) (or the window) (or another ...

Web Exclusive activities for What is Rural America? (page 28-31) from Teaching Tolerance No. 38. Activity #1: Defining Key Vocabulary in Visuals Essential ...

In April 2010, an environmental catastrophe occurred in the Gulf of Mexico. A deep-sea oil-drilling rig exploded, and millions of gallons of oil continued to gush into the Gulf for several months. The disaster ...

In this lesson, students will study Morgan’s speech to better understand the civil rights movement and the value of speaking out against injustice. On Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, four ...

I am an eighth-grade language arts teacher in Durham, New Hampshire. My students have grown up in an environment where there is very little exposure to ethnic, racial or LGBT communities. They are ripe ...

Each year in my art room, I introduce a unit of study focused on the art and culture of another country or region. This year I decided to focus on Islamic art and culture. Since I provide art instruction to ...

Friendship circles are groups of people who share some common interests or values. They can be healthy, nurturing and supportive. Being bonded to others because of a shared love of sports, music or ...

Bullied is a documentary film that chronicles one student’s ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies and offers an inspiring ...

Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice is a series of 14 lessons. Each lesson focuses on a contemporary social justice issue. These lessons are multidisciplinary and geared toward middle and high ...

Activities will help students understand strategies used in editorial cartoons and create an editorial cartoon that focuses on a social justice issue. This is the final lesson in the ...

Objective Activities will help students understand how artists use titles to bring context to editorial cartoons  This is the twelfth lesson in the series " Using ...

Activities meet the following objectives: understand how a cartoon uses words and images to make a political statement learn about gender discrimination and Title IX ...

Activities will help students: understand the use of dialogue in editorial cartoons question why one group might blindly hate another group This is the thirteenth lesson ...

Activities will help students understand how artists use images to represent an idea. This is the tenth lesson in the series " Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice ...

Activities will help students: understand how a cartoon uses irony and caricature to make a political statement understand a cartoon in its historical context connect past and present debates about ...

Activities meet the following objectives: understand the importance of context in decoding an editorial cartoon understand how a cartoon uses satire to make a political statement ...

Activities will help students explore how editorial cartoons often use familiar adages or idioms in new ways to make a point about something. This is the seventh lesson in the series ...

Activities will help students: understand how a cartoon uses idioms and puns (plays on words) to make a political statement interpret visual and written material in an editorial cartoon ...

Activities will help students see how artists can use cartoons to express their opinions about society and culture. This is the fifth lesson in the series " Using Editorial ...

People who are poor don’t have access to the kinds of resources—good jobs, high-quality education and health care, for example—that people with more money have. One thing they do have access to, unfortunately, ...

Activities will help students understand how images can come together to make a statement in an editorial cartoon This is the third lesson in the series " Using Editorial ...

Activities will help students: understand how a cartoon uses irony to make a political statement interpret visual and written material in an editorial cartoon ...

Activities will help students learn strategies for analyzing editorial cartoons. This is the first lesson in the series " Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice ...