Pre K to K

What We Learn From Women and Girls: Activity

Many schools observe Women's History Month as a way to highlight contributions women have made in the past. This lesson encourages you to help students explore the positive impact of girls and women on ...
Friendship Pizza: Activity Exchange

Identifying ways to promote acceptance and friendship When my kindergarteners became involved in a cycle of put-downs and tattling, I designed a lesson to assist them in ...
Puppets and Tolerance: Activity Exchange

Blending literature and puppetry is an excellent medium to provide a safe and non-threatening environment for children to explore many life issues. Abby's eyes widen in fear ...
An Exercise in Kindness: Activity Exchange

Substitute teachers face intolerance nearly every day. Substitute teachers face intolerance nearly every day. A three-week 3rd-grade assignment presented me with a unique ...
Identity Posters: Activity Exchange

Posters put a stop to teasing as students learn more about each other. In school, some names invoke teasing. To start our year off right and to stop teasing before it begins, I have ...
Stay in the Mix ...With Summer Service!: Activity

With summer approaching, it's time to figure out ways to keep mixing it up, even after the school year ends! Who: Nonprofit organizations -- and students -- throughout the ...
Many Shapes and Sizes: Lesson

This activity helps even the youngest of children celebrate size diversity. Overview In this lesson, students read a story about body diversity and discuss the different shapes ...
That's Not Fair!: Activity

Students will experience the effects of unequal resources on student achievement, share their thoughts about educational disparities and take action to bring about change. Art ...
Girls Can Be Plumbers?: Activity

This activity helps early-grade students begin to think about gender roles, stereotypes and career choices. Materials: "School Workers" display (made in advance, see ...
Gender Shouldn't Limit You!: Activity

What are the political gender biases among young students? Would they elect a girl president? Problem: Sometimes a group of children doesn't think another kid can do ...
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 ...
'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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Getting To Know Each Other (Lunch Day Mixer): Activity

The game centers on a question: "Could you be friends with someone who. . . ?" The book Getting to Know Ruben Plotnick (Flashlight Press, ISBN# 0972922555, $15.95), by ...
What Can We Learn from a Box of Crayons?: Activity Exchange

Central elementary, a school in transition with an increasingly diverse student body, decided to focus this school year on diversity. I wanted to help the 2nd- and 3rd-graders ...
Friendship Without Barriers: Lesson

Friendship Without Barriers is excerpted from the teaching kit "Rhinos and Raspberries: Tolerance Tales for the Early Grades," a literature-based teaching kit. Objectives ...
Collective Poetry: Activity Exchange

Collective poetry is an exercise designed to encourage students to work from a shared pattern in order to join their voices in a collective rhythm. We all have stories. In telling ...
Of Science and Heroes: Activity Exchange

Combat stereotypes by creatively combining science and social studies activities. As a teacher, I've watched too many children hit one another because they have to "kill ...
Lessons from Goldilocks: Activity Exchange

Teach inclusive, respectful behavior using storybooks lessons and art. The kindergarten students at Blakeburn Elementary School in Coquitlam, British Columbia, have definite opinions ...
Migration and the Spirits of Life: Activity

Celebrated annually on November 2, Dia de los Muertos, or "Day of the Dead," embraces life as it pokes fun at the Grim Reaper. (Note: In some regions, the celebration spans two days, from November ...

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