In response to legislation that would have criminalized immigrants, thousands of high school students from across the country walked out of their classrooms and into history.
Teaching Tolerance offers the following essays and activities to help students gain a deeper understanding of past and present struggles for Latino civil rights.
In the early 1900s, Mexican Americans, or Chicanos, in California and the Southwest were excluded from "Whites Only" theaters, parks, swimming pools, restaurants, and even schools. Immigrants from Mexico waged many battles against such discriminatory treatment, often risking their jobs in fields and factories and enduring threats of deportation. In 1945, one couple in California won a significant victory in their struggle to secure the best education for thousands of Chicano children.
For young white students, explorations of fair and unfair, just and unjust, can go a long way in advancing anti-racist white identity. Purposeful use of literature and basic study of white anti-racists are among the key ways educators can advance such aims.
Teaching Tolerance presents four short biographies [5] for early grades classrooms, with activity ideas.
Celebrate Valentine's legacy of love and resistance!
Explore how music divides - and unites.
How to use the written word to highlight, and counteract, social boundaries.
A student reflects on his travel to New Orleans, where he helped rebuild parts of the Ninth Ward.
This activity encourages students to reflect on their individual cultures and histories, their backgrounds, the things they grew up with (some that may have been in their control and others that they had no choice about), and their values. In the end, students will begin to enlarge their perspective and recognize diversity of belief and background.
Teachers and students draw maps showing where they think social divisions exist at school, and compare views of the community as a whole.
On November 20, 1969, Alcatraz island became the unlikely stage for a landmark event in the Native American rights movement.
As the nation observes Native American Heritage Month, Teaching Tolerance offers a wealth of activity ideas tied to Thanksgiving, Native mascots and indigenous people's proud heritage of resistance.
Native American activists use civil disobedience and consensus-building to resolve an old dispute over environmental resources.
Native Americans resist the U.S. government's policy of forced removal in the 19th century.
The holiday season often marks the launch of toy and canned food drives in schools. Use this activity to deepen students understanding of those being served and the dynamics of poverty in the United States.
This activity can help students understand the similarities and differences in various religious traditions.
Educator and author Mara Sapon-Shevin offers strategies and ideas to help students become allies -- people who stand with or for others.
This checklist provides suggestions for what kids can do when bullying occurs – written for students being bullied, students who witness bullying and the bullies themselves.
This collection of student essays showcase models of student interrogation of racial disparities and racism. Discussion questions for classroom exploration are included.
How do you ensure students get the most out of black history and Black History Month? Here are some suggestions.
Students will experience the effects of unequal resources on student achievement, share their thoughts about educational disparities and take action to bring about change.
This activity helps early-grade students begin to think about gender roles, stereotypes and career choices.
What are the political gender biases among young students? Would they elect a girl president?
The struggle for women's equality isn't over. Use these resources in your classroom to discuss the modern-day fight for political equality.
With summer approaching, it's time to figure out ways to keep mixing it up, even after the school year ends!
This web-exclusive curriculum is proven to counteract gender bullying in the early grades.
Teaching Tolerance offers activities and resources about the winding road toward, and away from, integrated schooling in the U.S.
Have we really learned how to break down barriers?
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.
A recent wave of noose incidents – particularly those on school campuses – has raised alarm among adults and questions from young people.
Teaching Tolerance considers the legacy of Dr. King's dream of a just and equal society for all and how much of the dream remains deferred.
After Barack Obama's election, some Americans responded with racism and bigotry.
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.
Distribute Lifesavers in the cafeteria to start Mix Up lunchtime conversations.
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 their own lives and communities today.
Always guard against the tendency to believe that everyone within a given identity group believes the same way.
Teachers can use these quotes from famous individuals to facilitate student reflection on the importance of conflict resolution.
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 traditions. Social studies themes offer another springboard for exploring the historical relationships that different cultural communities have with plants.
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 curriculum, Rhinos and Raspberries, Tolerance Tales for the Early Grades.
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 unity within a pluralistic society, as typified in the motto on the Great Seal of the United States (and the dollar bill): E Pluribus Unum.
Early grades lesson to confront gender stereotypes.
Early grades activity to confront gender stereotypes.
Early grades activity to confront gender stereotypes.
Sometimes we say something to another person that we believe is true because of their gender.
Early grades activity designed to confront gender stereotypes.
Activity Ideas
Activity Ideas
Teaching Tolerance offers activities and resources about the winding road toward, and away from, integrated schooling in the United States
This activity will remind students that no one deserves to be bullied and that everyone has a responsibility to report unkind acts.
Links:
[1] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/si-se-puede
[2] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/latino-heritage-discussion-activity
[3] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/tale-two-schools
[4] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/white-anti-racist-biographies-early-grades
[5] http://www.tolerance.org/supplement/white-anti-racist-biographies
[6] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/stay-mix-valentines-day
[7] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/stay-mix-music
[8] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/stay-mix-during-national-poetry-month
[9] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/student-service-reflection-different-kind-vacation
[10] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/reflection-what-s-your-frame
[11] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/social-boundaries-activity-map-it-out
[12] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/alcatraz-proclamation-primary-document-activity
[13] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/against-current
[14] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/land-ours
[15] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/holiday-charity-math-activity-about-poverty
[16] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/celebrating-connections
[17] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/allies-discussion-activity
[18] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/bullying-tips-students
[19] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/students-speak-out-discussion-activity
[20] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/dos-and-donts-teaching-black-history
[21] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/thats-not-fair
[22] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/girls-can-be-plumbers
[23] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/gender-shouldnt-limit-you
[24] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/women-and-political-power
[25] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/stay-mix-summer-service
[26] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/peer-exclusion
[27] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/timeline-school-integration
[28] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/boundary-crossing
[29] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/historical-primer-economic-inequality
[30] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/history-other-hate-symbols
[31] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/lesson-dr-king-and-movement
[32] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/obama-backlash-incidents-americas-schools
[33] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/f-fair
[34] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/education-evaluation
[35] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/lifesavers-lunchroom-lunch-day-mixer
[36] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/peaceful-lessons-peaceful-leaders-im-leader-too
[37] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/what-we-learn-women-and-girls
[38] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/checking-stereotypes
[39] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/conflict-resolution-and-peace
[40] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/harvesting-interrelationships-between-humans-and-plants
[41] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/activity-ideas-use-crocodile-and-ghost-bat-have-hullabaloo
[42] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/immigrants-and-us
[43] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/role-exclusion
[44] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/teasing-about-gendered-activities-traits-or-possessions
[45] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/biased-judgments
[46] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/gendered-beliefs
[47] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/highlighting-gender
[48] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/promise-brown
[49] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/little-rock-nine-activities
[50] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/school-segregation-today
[51] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/bullies-act-out
[52] http://www.tolerance.org/activities
[53] http://www.tolerance.org/activities?page=2