Social Studies

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  ...

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 ...

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.' ...

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. ...

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. ...

Early grades activity designed to confront gender stereotypes. This is a part of  Gender Doesn't Limit You! , also  available as a PDF . Note: Substitute your ...

Sometimes we say something to another person that we believe is true because of their gender. This is a part of  Gender Doesn't Limit You! , also  available as a PDF . ...

Early grades activity 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 ...

Early grades activity 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 ...

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 ...

Ethnobotany, a specialized field of science that studies the interrelationships between humans and plants, can provide a "hook" for exploring and understanding cultural diversity and ethnic ...

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 ...

Viva La Causa introduces the Delano strike and grape boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta. The kit includes a 39-minute DVD ...

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

This special teachers' edition of the Academy Award-winning documentary film and accompanying resources tell the heroic story of ...

Recommended for middle and upper grades, this Academy Award-nominated documentary film and accompanying resources bring the ...

Designed for in-service programs, this training tool for early grades educators profiles classrooms in which peace, equity and ...

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 activity for early grades, students will read a short biography of César Chávez, be introduced to labor unions and reflect on how powerful it can be to speak up, with others, for change. ...