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Here is an activity that is fun and teaches kids to recognize the problems associated with bullying. They learn to use critical thinking and empathy skills to come up with ...

Sometimes students get stuck on superficial notions of identity, both in understanding themselves and in looking at their classmates. This activity uses literature to challenge stereotypes and help children ...

As an elementary school counselor, I am continually amazed at the number of students who do not know how to give and receive a compliment. Students seem to have no trouble, however, with the occasional teasing ...

The beginning of the school year is such an exciting time. Students and teachers arrive   full of dreams, goals and enthusiasm. There are the prospects of new friends, interesting learning and becoming part of ...

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 ...

The Chicago Tribune article, “Race Gap Seen in Restaurant Hiring,” explores the roles of race and class in staffing and uncovers examples and statistics pertaining to employment-related bias at our ...

It is often said that reading opens up new worlds. It also opens up the opportunity to ask deep questions about the world that we—and the literature we read—exist in. Book clubs or literature circles are one ...

Students often learn the importance of respecting people of different religions, and of respecting religious beliefs that are different from their own. But what about people who do not hold religious beliefs ...

Home Sweet Home . Home is that chipped teacup in the china cabinet that belonged to your grandmother. Home is your artwork proudly displayed on the refrigerator. Home is that favorite place you prefer to ...

In this lesson, students imagine themselves attending a high school that is polarized by violence between U.S.-born students and foreign-born African immigrants. After learning about the situation, students ...

This lesson revolves around Sherman Alexie’s poignant yet humorous and accessible essay, “I Hated Tonto (Still Do).” It explores the negative impact that stereotypes have on the self-worth of individuals and ...

In the United States, different types of religious clothing exist just about everywhere. In this lesson, students will explore how articles of clothing are linked to different religions. First they will ...

Almost every teacher has heard students use the expression, “that’s so gay” as a way of putting down or insulting someone (or to describe something). These lessons will help students examine how inappropriate ...

Building on the common early grades theme of “neighborhood and community,” this lesson uses a free, downloadable children’s book, “The Gift,” to drive home the idea that people—and their diverse interests—are ...