This activity will remind students that no one deserves to be bullied and that everyone has a responsibility to report unkind acts.
This shortest month of the year is typically filled with history reports, pageants, guest speakers, cultural fairs and the like. Seldom a day goes by that we don't hear the names of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Madame C.J. Walker, George Washington Carver, and so on.
Many schools observe Women's History Month as a way to highlight contributions women have made in the past. This month, Mix It Up encourages you to help students explore the positive impact of girls and women on their own lives and communities today.
This lesson encourages students to investigate domestic hunger in the United States as well as in their own communities and offers resources to support youth in the fight against hunger.
Projects that examine various aspects of migrant life in depth
A guide to classroom activities exploring arguments about what blues music is "authentic"
Use these ideas in the classroom to explore racial and ethnic imagery in school mascots.
Three new lesson plans for grades 9-12 offer educators fresh, engaging strategies to deepen students' understanding about race and racism throughout history and today.
Little Rock isn't the only city or town with a civil rights history.
Create a lesson plan that puts math and science in context for your students.
Students are used to put-downs, but what about put-ups? This activity helps students see the positive things that their schoolmates are doing and gives them skills to affirm each other across social boundaries.
Shakespeare’s classic play is a must-read for all high school students. Might the tragic end of Romeo & Juliet have been different if the Montagues and the Capulets had crossed their social boundaries?
Students always have passionate opinions about controversial social topics. They also often become friends with others who reinforce their ideology. And students don’t often possess the skills to disagree gracefully. This activity invites students to cross their ideological boundaries and become friends with others who think differently than they do.
Explore the U.S. Census data and create your own!
This lesson uses the strategies of “student questioning for purposeful learning” (SQPL) and jigsaw grouping to engage students in examining Constitutional issues related to school-based grooming policies.
Last year at Seth Johnson Elementary, in Montgomery, Ala., the fourth- and fifth-grade students participated in the National Mix It Up at Lunch Day. In preparation for the day, we challenged fifth-graders to think about how they matter to the people around them – and to write essays titled “We All Matter.”
Students identify parts of arguments – using the ARE framework [18] – by reading and evaluating letters to the editor. They identify weaknesses and strengths of letters, suggesting improvements to arguments used within the letters.
Students produce assertions on slips of paper and “stock” the classroom Assertion Jar. As a daily or occasional activity, students practice refutation skills by pulling an assertion from the jar and refuting it either orally or in writing. Appropriate as a writing prompt or journal activity.
In 1989 a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck San Francisco. Sixty-three people died. This year, a 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti. A month after the disaster the Haitian government estimates that more than 200,000 people died. Why the huge difference? In this lesson students will answer that question as they identify and explore connections between poverty and natural disasters.
Building on the common early grades theme of “neighborhood and community,” this lesson uses a free, downloadable children’s book, “The Gift,” to drive home the idea that people—and their diverse interests—are what make our communities special.
Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice is a series of 14 lessons. Each lesson focuses on a contemporary social justice issue. These lessons are multidisciplinary and geared toward middle and high school students.
This lesson has students distinguish between charity (volunteering in a soup kitchen) and justice (working to end the inequalities that make soup kitchens necessary). It asks students to think about root causes (inequality) versus symptoms (poverty that leads to the need for soup kitchens).
Based on Mix It Up: Score One for Humanity [25]
Based on Mixing It Up with Purpose [27]
Based on Mixing It Up with Purpose [27]
Based on Musical Chairs [30]
Loosely based on "What Are You?" [32]
Based on Crossing Borders/Border Crossings [34] and What's In a Name?" [35]
Based on Icebreakers and Introductions [37]
Students sit at tables with students they don’t usually sit with.
Based on Musical Chairs [30]
Excerpted from http://adulted.about.com/od/icebreakers/qt/2minutemixer.htm [41]
This activity asks students to read and compare the language of selected Civil Rights legislation.
This lesson features activities that will make students aware of the roles that undocumented immigrants play in the harvest and processing of food and other necessary products, help them understand the status of and choices that face undocumented workers in our country and appreciate the importance of human rights.
For this lesson, students will use maps and graphs to explore some instances of environmental injustice.
This lesson is the fourth in a series called Expanding Voting Rights [46]. The overall goal of the series is for students to explore the complicated history of voting rights in the United States. Two characteristics of that history stand out: First, in fits and starts, more and more Americans have gained the right to vote. Second, over time, the federal government's role in securing these rights has expanded considerably.
This is the thirteenth lesson in the Reading Ads with a Social Justice Lens [48] series.
This final lesson gives students a chance to reflect on what they have learned. Drama offers a wonderful way for students to make themselves heard. It also helps them synthesize their understandings of a topic. By working collaboratively to create their own advertisements, children will show that they are thinkers as well as activists.
This is the first lesson of the series, I See You, You See Me: Body Image and Social Justice [50], which helps students think about their bodies and body image as related to broader issues of social justice and the harm caused from stereotypes.
This is the third lesson of the series, I See You, You See Me: Body Image and Social Justice [50], designed to help students think about their bodies and body image as related to broader issues of social justice and to explore the harm created from stereotypes.
Links:
[1] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/stand
[2] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/peaceful-lessons-peaceful-leaders-tri-leadership
[3] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/women-who-inform-our-world
[4] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/fighting-hunger
[5] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/more-migrants
[6] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/blues-music-activity
[7] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/school-mascots-explored
[8] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/using-obamas-speech-race-classroom
[9] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/oral-history-and-civil-rights
[10] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/air-quality
[11] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/put-ups
[12] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/romeo-and-juliet-mix-it
[13] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/controversial-issues
[14] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/census-activities
[15] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/should-your-hairstyle-be-constitutional-right
[16] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/mixing-and-mattering
[17] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/letters-editor
[18] http://www.tolerance.org/publication/civil-discourse-classroom/chapter-2-building-blocks-civil-discourse
[19] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/assertion-jar
[20] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/poverty-and-natural-disasters-exploring-connections
[21] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/gift-community
[22] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/using-editorial-cartoons-teach-social-justice
[23] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/charity-and-justice-what-s-difference
[24] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/s-teamwork-lunch-day-mixer
[25] http://www.tolerance.org/blog/mix-it-score-one-humanity
[26] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/human-scavenger-hunt-lunch-day-mixer
[27] http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-38-fall-2010/mixing-it-purpose
[28] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/mix-it-deck-cards-lunch-day-mixer
[29] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/buddies-lunch-day-mixer
[30] http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-12-fall-1997/musical-chairs
[31] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/it-s-about-me-lunch-day-mixer
[32] http://www.tolerance.org/resource/what-are-you
[33] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/what-s-your-name-lunch-day-mixer
[34] http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-28-fall-2005/crossing-bordersborder-crossings
[35] http://www.edweb.fdu.edu/anyfile/JoshiK/Whatsinaname.pdf
[36] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/fact-or-fiction-lunch-day-mixer
[37] http://www.reproline.jhu.edu/english/5tools/5icebreak/icebreak2.htm
[38] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/building-sentences-and-stories-lunch-day-mixer
[39] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/making-new-friends-lunch-day-mixer
[40] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/what-do-we-have-common-lunch-day-mixer
[41] http://adulted.about.com/od/icebreakers/qt/2minutemixer.htm
[42] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/whos-voting-now
[43] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/recognizing-undocumented
[44] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/environmental-justice
[45] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/women-s-suffrage
[46] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/expanding-voting-rights
[47] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/advertisements-our-own
[48] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/reading-ads-social-justice-lens
[49] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/what-body-image
[50] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/i-see-you-you-see-me-body-image-and-social-justice
[51] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/different-images-beauty
[52] http://www.tolerance.org/activities
[53] http://www.tolerance.org/activities?page=1