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Bullying: Tips for Students [1]: Activity

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. If you ...
A Timeline for Change [2]: Activity Exchange

Timeline activity helps foster a spirit of activism "It is that long-term change that I think we must see if we are not to lose hope." -- Howard Zinn In an ...
Readers' Theater [3]: Activity Exchange

Readers theater group helps spread message about bullying As a junior high counselor with a background in theater, I always am searching for new ways to incorporate ...
Holiday Charity: A Math Activity About Poverty [4]: Activity

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. ...
Student Service Reflection: A Different Kind of Vacation [5]: Activity

A student reflects on his travel to New Orleans, where he helped rebuild parts of the Ninth Ward. I wake up lying on a street I don't recognize, my face covered in a mask of ...
Stay in the Mix During National Poetry Month! [6]: Activity

How to use the written word to highlight, and counteract, social boundaries. Who: Everyone who loves words What: The free expression of poetry to communicate the power of ...
Anti-Racism Activity: The Sneetches [7]: Lesson

In this early grades activity, students learn about unfair practices in a simulation exercise and then create plans to stand up against discrimination. Perspective Before ...
'Si Se Puede!' [8]: Activity

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. The ...
Writing Persuasive Letters About Immigration Reform [9]: Lesson

Latino workers from Central and South America, as well as Mexico, have long been part of the workforce in the United States. In response to calls for immigration reform, President G. W. Bush proposed a new ...
Why Frogs and Snakes Never Play Together [10]: Lesson

This Pourquoi of Prejudice is used to promote tolerance in the classroom. The Plot A chance meeting of a family of frogs and a family of snakes in the woods one day ...
Classroom Community Building [11]: Activity

Activities for all grades to build community in your class this year. Early Grades • At Kensington Avenue School in Springfield, Mass., teachers build community every day ...
Playing the Bully Card [12]: Activity Exchange

Teaching students how to stand up to bullying behavior, particularly when that means asking the teacher or another adult to intervene, can be a challenge. Sometimes, students lack ...
Friendship Without Barriers [13]: Lesson

Friendship Without Barriers is excerpted from the teaching kit "Rhinos and Raspberries: Tolerance Tales for the Early Grades," a literature-based teaching kit. Objectives ...
Juliette Hampton Morgan: Becoming an Ally [14]: Lesson

Students learn the importance of being an ally through the story of Juliette Hampton Morgan, a white woman who lived in Montgomery, Alabama, during segregation. "Neutrality ...
The Business of Controversial Topics [15]: Activity Exchange

Activity exchange for grades 9-12 to explore ways of discussing controversial topics. During my rookie year of teaching, several of my high school students secretly tacked up a small ...
One Survivor Remembers: A Call to Action [16]: Lesson

This lesson is an excerpt from the teacher’s guide of One Survivor Remembers , a teaching kit built around the incredible life story of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein. ...
Juliette Hampton Morgan: Discussing the Story [17]: Lesson

Students learn the importance of being an ally through the story of Juliette Hampton Morgan, a white woman who lived in Montgomery, Alabama, during segregation. Objectives ...
Juliette Hampton Morgan: A White Woman Who Understood [18]: Lesson

Students learn the importance of being an ally through the story of Juliette Hampton Morgan, a white woman who lived in Montgomery, Alabama, during segregation. Healthy racial ...
Cooperative Comics [19]: Activity

Comic books are visual literature. This simple cooperative group activity allows students to identify confrontational issues within their own school and then imagine solutions. ...
A Bullying Survey [20]: Lesson

In this lesson, students evaluate group practices and propose measures to improve the classroom climate. Objectives Students will evaluate group practices and propose ...
Tolerance and Genocide [21]: Activity Exchange

Lesson uses history of genocide to further notions of personal responsibility. As a world history teacher, I seek to connect the events of the past with the issues of the world ...
Holocaust Art Education Project [22]: Activity Exchange

Holocaust study encourages discussion about what it means to be a responsible citizen. The Respect ...
The Children's March: Viewing the Film [23]: Lesson

This activity is designed for use with our free curriculum kit, Mighty Times: The Children's March , designed for the middle and upper grades. Question and answer activity ...
From Chaos to Community [24]: Activity Exchange

Teacher uses student suggestions to create ideal classroom environment. I was hired to teach 6th grade three days before school started at such a large school that they had formed it ...
Building Community, Day by Day [25]: Activity Exchange

Morning Meetings help students and teachers connect and start the day on a positive note. It's the start of the school day at Kensington Avenue School in Springfield, Mass. ...
Beat for Peace [26]: Activity Exchange

Implement an intervention program built on shared music and individual counseling sessions. "Dom ti-dom di-ga di-ga dat dat" — tubano drums that mimic speech resound ...
Lessons from Goldilocks [27]: Activity Exchange

Teach inclusive, respectful behavior using storybooks lessons and art. The kindergarten students at Blakeburn Elementary School in Coquitlam, British Columbia, have definite opinions ...
What Responsibilities Accompany Our Rights? [28]: Lesson

This lesson looks at an important question students will face as citizens: What responsibilities accompany our basic rights? Overview The lesson begins with a class discussion ...
Sexism: From Identification to Activism [29]: Lesson

Students will identify ways in which sexism manifests in personal and institutional beliefs, behaviors, use of language and policies. Use this lesson to develop plans of action against bias. ...
A Living History [30]: Activity

Students can make a pledge to help end continued racism. Back in 1926 when Dr. Carter G. Woodson established a week-long celebration of the contributions of African Americans to the ...

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