Reading and Language Arts

Media plays a powerful role in perpetuating stereotypes. Children must learn to think carefully and independently about the messages in advertisements. By learning about the concept of stereotypes and the ...

Children are surrounded – and targeted – by advertisements: on television, the computer, even on their journeys to and from school. Children need specific strategies for reading and talking about ...

As students learn to be critical readers and thinkers, it is important that they learn how to read and respond to everyday media. Throughout the series , students will practice the strategies developed in ...

Children see and hear advertisements constantly. Television shows, radio stations, websites, even most streets and sidewalks are peppered with advertisements. Children need to be explicitly taught about these ...

This lesson is the fourth in the “ Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice ” series that introduces students to African American civil rights activists who may be unfamiliar ...

This lesson is part of a series called “ Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice. ”  The series introduces students to African-American civil rights activists who may be ...

This lesson is part of a series called “Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice.” The series introduces students to African-American civil rights activists who may be ...

Most history textbooks include a section about Rosa Parks in the chapter on the modern civil rights movement. Students are familiar with her story: Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give up her seat ...

This lesson is the first in the “Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice” series that introduces students to African-American civil rights activists who may be unfamiliar to ...

This is the fourth lesson in the series Female Identity and Gender Expectations. Enacted in 1972, Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972, (also called Title IX) has been credited with raising the opportunity of girls and women in educational ...

This lesson is the third in the series Female Identity and Gender Expectations. In this lesson, students will explore their assumptions about what kind of work they do and will do. They will also explore how these expectations relate to gender by ...

Although many girls today  challenge the stereotype  that they can’t excel at math and science, these same girls may not see themselves pursuing careers in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering and math. In this lesson, students read about ...

The four lessons in this unit explore different aspects of gender for today’s girls and women. Each lesson identifies barriers that limit girls’ and women’s opportunities and asks students to explore how those ...

Wikipedia, the web-based collaborative encyclopedia, was created as an “open” project—a text to which everybody could contribute. There were no obvious barriers to the concept, but a problem quickly became clear—there were few female contributors. In ...

This is the final lesson in a series on gender expression . The goal of the series is to help students understand how gender stereotypes can lead to bullying and stand in the way of building a safe ...

This series helps students understand why gender stereotypes are unfair and how teasing or bullying someone who does not conform to gender norms prevents a safe classroom community. ...

In today's multicultural schools and classrooms, resolving conflict means being culturally aware. "I know she was lying," Estella said of the 3rd-grade girl, ...

Students of conflict resolution laud facilitative mediation for its cultural responsiveness. Objectives Participants will understand ways to nurture classroom community for ...

This is the fourth lesson in a series on gender expression . The goal of the series is to help students understand how gender stereotypes can lead to bullying and stand in the way of building a safe ...

This is the third lesson in a series on gender expression . The goal of the series is to help students understand how gender stereotypes can lead to bullying and stand in the way of building a safe ...

This is the second lesson in a series on gender expression . The goal of the series is to help students understand how gender stereotypes can lead to bullying and stand in the way of building a safe ...

This is the first lesson in a series on gender expression . The goal of the series is to help students understand how gender stereotypes can lead to bullying and stand in the way of building a safe ...

“Issues of Poverty” is comprised of four lessons with two overarching goals. Millions of Americans live in poverty. Some are thrown into poverty by illness or unemployment; others ...

In this lesson, students will learn that race is a factor often connected to poverty and that institutions can create obstacles for the poor—and for people of color who live in poverty—that block participation ...

This lesson is the third in a series called “ Issues of Poverty .” Students explore the causes of poverty in the United States and the structural factors that perpetuate it. Students will examine the ways ...

This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article " Civil Rights Road Trip ." It’s important for students learning about civil rights history to put ...

It’s important for students learning about civil rights history to put themselves in the shoes of those who were there. Have them commemorate their own civil rights road trip by writing postcards from the ...

This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article “ Story Corner: An Unlikely Friendship .” Vocabulary disability [dis- uh - bil -i-tee]  ( noun ) ...

This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article " Civil Rights Road Trip ." POSTCARDS FROM THE PAST It’s important for students learning about ...

This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article " Defining Moments ." Children’s dictionaries have the power to shape how kids see the world. Be sure ...