Reading and Language Arts

Teaching Tolerance offers activities and resources about the winding road toward, and away from, integrated schooling in the United States :: Paying Our Respects to Brown ...

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

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.' ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Across the political spectrum, most commentators identify "equality" as an American value.  After all, the Constitution begins "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more ...

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 ...

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 ...

How I navigate evolution (and creationism) in a second-grade classroom Mary Cowhey Evolution isn't part ...

The following timeline activities document dozens of key Latino civil rights events between 1903 and 2006. When reading this timeline, it's important to remember that the fight ...

One Survivor Remembers enables thoughtful classroom discussion about a historical topic that is particularly difficult to teach ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

February is a time often reserved for the celebration of past leaders and visionaries who fought peacefully and intellectually to provide us with more opportunities for a more privileged future. ...

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 ...

Students learn about advertising and find common ground with their peers by coming together to create a "brand" for themselves. Personal loyalty in 21st Century America ...

President Obama angered many advocates for gay equality when he selected Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, despite Warren's views on gay rights. Obama said he made the choice to ...

Draw on your students' prior knowledge to help them understand the importance of the labor movement. Framework To understand the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

In this activity, students will debunk the idea that Obama's election means race and racism are no longer relevant in U.S. society. Objectives Students will analyze ...

This lesson plan is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance magazine article " Exposing Hidden Homophobia " Sarah Arnold satisfied state standards and promoted tolerance by ...

An introduction to the Theatre of the Oppressed This lesson plan is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance magazine article "Flipping the Script on Bias and Bullies" ...