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Stand Up!

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This activity will remind students that no one deserves to be bullied and that everyone has a responsibility to report unkind acts. Materials Multi-color index cards  ...
Bullies Act Out

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This activity will remind students that no one deserves to be bullied and that everyone has a responsibility to report unkind acts. Materials Classroom table bulletin ...
Role Exclusion

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Early grades lesson to confront gender stereotypes. This is a part of  Gender Doesn't Limit You! , also  available as a PDF . Note: Substitute your school's name ...
Immigrants and Us

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Almost every person in the U.S. has an immigration history, whether in the distant familial past or in more recent times. As a nation of immigrants, the United States has long struggled with how best to create ...
A Bullying Quiz

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In this lesson, students take a quiz related to bullying and discuss follow-up reflective questions to help them plan an anti-bullying initiative in their community. Objectives ...
Activity Ideas To Use With Crocodile And Ghost Bat Have A Hullabaloo

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Discussion topics and writing themes that can be explored with the story Crocodile and Ghost Bat Have a Hullabaloo . This story and accompanying activities are excerpted from Teaching Tolerance’s ...
In-Group Favoritism

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This activity looks at the way in-group favoritism hurts instead of heals the conflicts we might have with each other. Objectives Students will understand and be able to ...
Conflict Resolution and Peace

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Teachers can use these quotes from famous individuals to facilitate student reflection on the importance of conflict resolution. Objectives Students will read and interpret ...
Checking on Stereotypes

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Always guard against the tendency to believe that everyone within a given identity group believes the same way. Objectives Students will identify stereotypes they've ...
Communication – The Total Impact of Your Message

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Effective conflict resolution models explore the ways others communicate from their cultural norms. 7% are the words we speak 38% are our tone, volume, inflection and intonation ...
Introducing Kids to the Idea of Environmental Racism

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In this lesson, students will participate in an activity designed to simulate the inequity of environmental racism. They will also have a chance to explore various ways children can get involved in these ...
What We Learn From Women and Girls

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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 ...
Visualizing School Equity

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By examining the funding gap in their own state, students will learn about inequities in the system and begin to question why those inequities exist. This lesson plan is to ...
Our Challenges: A Blended Poem Activity

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In this lesson, students will take a deeper look at two major speeches on race – one by President Bill Clinton, the other by then-candidate Barack Obama – and discuss the core issues in each. ...
F is for Fair!

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This lesson will guide students through their human right to education and help them evaluate how well the world is doing when it comes to providing a free, equal, quality education to our youth. ...
Education Evaluation

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This lesson will guide students through their human right to education and help them evaluate how well the world is doing when it comes to providing a free, equal, quality education to our youth. ...
Flags for Peace

Activity Exchange

This activity can help students make a personal connection to a seemingly abstract theme at the beginning of a lesson or as a culminating activity. When a white supremacist group ...
Final Project Outline

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This lesson plan is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance magazine article " Exposing Hidden Homophobia " Sarah Arnold satisfied state standards and promoted tolerance by ...
Worker Exploitation Today: A Lesson from Viva La Causa

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Students will understand that the struggle for worker justice continues. This lesson is part of the Viva la Causa teaching kit. Objectives Activites will help ...
The Immigration Debate: A Lesson from Viva La Causa

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In this lesson, students will explore social justice issues within our nation’s immigration debate—a debate that is largely connected in the public psyche to undocumented Latino workers. Students will examine ...
Dinner for Two

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At the beginning of each term, in junior- and senior-level courses, I have my students get to know each other. At the beginning of each term, in junior- and senior-level courses, I ...
Exploring the Film: A Lesson from Viva La Causa

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Using the common literary strategy of prediction, students will write descriptive compositions based on visual prompts and will connect symbolically with one of the farmworkers or allies. ...
Me And We: We are All Similar and Different

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In this activity, students explore the ways we are all similar and different. This activity is useful for planning Mix It Up at Lunch Day or when building intergroup ...
'Unbranding' to Encourage an Appreciation of Diversity

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Lesson on 'unbranding' guides students toward diversity appreciation I created this lesson so students could explore the ways branding undermines efforts to build community ...
My Multicultural Self

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In today's multicultural schools and classrooms, resolving conflict means being culturally aware.    Framework Before endeavoring to develop cultural knowledge and ...
Interviewing Immigrants

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Helping students gain perspective on difficulties of learning a new language. "Those kids are laughing at me," Lisa said. "They should speak English." Lisa, ...
Ladder of Prejudice

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Examining the escalation from name-calling to genocide "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing ...
Mystery and Mayhem

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Using literature to help high school students examine the violence and loss of innocence of the 1960s For the last six years I have used Robert McCammon's Boy's Life ...
Many Shapes and Sizes

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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!

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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 ...
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