Arts

Reducing Gender Stereotyping and Homophobia in Sports

Recently, professional football players Brendon Ayanbadejo and Scott Fujita spoke out to support marriage equality. Their advocacy brings to the surface a discussion that has been going on for a long time about homophobia in professional sports. It raises questions about homophobia and gender stereotyping in school sports, too. This lesson asks students to identify and discuss homophobia and gender stereotyping in athletics, and think about how to combat these attitudes and behavior at their own schools.

Professional Development
You can read some general guidelines about how to teach about gender stereotyping and homophobia at:

What Makes a Family?

Students use the 2010 Census to explore family diversity and the different ways to define a family. They research about the experiences of Michael Oher, a professional football player for the Baltimore Ravens, who scrambled for survival without a family. To wrap up, students create a We Are Family mural to celebrate family diversity.

Framework

School Segregation Today

Teaching Tolerance offers activities and resources about the winding road toward, and away from, integrated schooling in the U.S.

:: Paying Our Respects to Brown (Grades 5-12) In his essay, Julian Bond says the Supreme Court's ruling this summer "is likely to be remembered as Brown's final e

Little Rock Nine: Activities

Activity Ideas

:: Primary Documents (Grades 4-7): President Eisenhower waited nearly a month before sending federal troops to protect the Little Rock Nine.

The Promise of Brown

Activity Ideas

:: A World Apart (Grades 3-7) In her interview, Beverly Daniel Tatum says: "Many social organizations that were once all white are now 'integrated.' However, … residential segregat

Interpreting Wealth Disparities

Classroom experiences that critically investigate the causes and meaning of poverty in our own nation offer students tools for change, and new ways to interpret the world around them.

A Math and Art Activity for Grades 6 and Up

Objectives

Activities for By Virtue of Being Human

As a class, develop a working definition of human rights.

  • Collect and classify magazine and newspaper photos that depict people exercising their rights or being deprived of their rights.

Freedom Flag

Activity to help young students learn the meaning of "freedom."

Download "Freedom, Oh Freedom" as an mp3 or notation PDF.

Setting the Stage for Controversial Topics

What does ice cream have to do with controversy?

I know controversial issues will come up in my educational psychology course, so halfway through the first class, I take students out in the hall and mark off an area about 40-feet long with sections ranging from 1 to 10.

Jukebox

Jukebox ($14.95), by David Merveille, illustrates many genres of music from opera to hip hop to jazz. This practically wordless book illustrates that music reveals as much about the people who listen to it as it does about those who make it. 

David Merveille
978-1-9336-0572-2
Kane/Miller Book Publishers
(800) 968-1930
http://www.kanemiller.com
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