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Lesson helps students understand how media influence their decisions. Popular media influence the development of self in young people. Teenagers view commercials and popular shows as ... - The Literature of Bullying [2]
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Lesson includes resources for tackling the bully problem. Nearly one out of every three students between the ages of 11 and 18 has experienced some form of bullying. Our school chose ... - Pre-WWII European Jewish Life Photo Project [3]
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Examine the individuality of Jewish lives affected by or lost in the Holocaust, as well as how their communities were affected, through the finding and analysis of family photographs before and after the Nazi ... - One Survivor Remembers: Twenty Pounds [4]
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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. ... - One Survivor Remembers: Antisemitism [5]
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This lesson is an excerpt from the accompanying teacher's guide to One Survivor Remembers , a teaching kit built around the incredible life story of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein. ... - Clothing-Based Bias [6]
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In this lesson, students will explore the way clothing can influence our perceptions of one another. "Who you are is more important than what you wear." — Kenneth Cole, ... - Rethinking 'Discovery' [7]
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Morning Girl looks at the themes of exploration and "discovery" from another perspective. Discouraged by images of Columbus greeting indigenous people with hopeful ... - 'Mathematics for Our Past' [8]
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Our students come from upper-middle-class homes and live in a sheltered suburban community with little exposure to anyone significantly different than themselves. Teaching tolerance is difficult when they have ... - Strong Women and Gentle Men [9]
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This activity is designed for use with our free curriculum kit, Mighty Times: The Children's March , designed for the middle and upper grades. This activity is based on ... - New Kids on the Block [10]
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Activity brings home the difficulties teen immigrants have fitting into a new culture. My 7th-grade students were studying teen immigrants and the difficulties they sometimes have ... - Holocaust Education: Pink Triangles [11]
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Speaker shows significance of symbol while giving a face to gay "category." The guest speaker came to teach a lesson on World War II not found in our text. After ... - Bus Boycott: Historical Documents Highlight Integration Milestone [12]
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This collection of primary resources and corresponding activities sheds light on the endurance of peaceful protesters in Montgomery, Ala., who overturned an unjust law. On December ... - Of Science and Heroes [13]
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Combat stereotypes by creatively combining science and social studies activities. As a teacher, I've watched too many children hit one another because they have to "kill ... - Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement [14]
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Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. Beneath the surface of many landmark Supreme Court decisions, including Gayle v. Browder , are fascinating stories about everyday ... - Going to Bat for Girls Activity [15]
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In celebration of Title IX's anniversary, we highlight one family's struggle to realize the promise of equality. Materials " Going to Bat for Girls" ... - Critical Viewer Activity [16]
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Help your students take a critical view of advertising. The following activities were adapted with permission from the GO GIRLS! curriculum, produced by the National Eating ... - Freedom's Main Line [17]
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Learn how activists in Louisville, Kentucky successfully campaigned against segregated streetcars in 1870-71. Framework In 1865, four million newly emancipated slaves quickly ... - Then and Now: Tolerance as a Casualty of War [18]
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This activity helps students understand the injustice and dangers of scapegoating an entire group of people during a national crisis. Some lawmakers and members of the media have ... - Activity for Home Was a Horse Stall [19]
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Ways to use " Home was a Horse Stall " in the classroom 1942: A young Japanese American woman ponders the meaning of freedom behind barbed wire... Just before ... - Peace Be Upon You [20]
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Explore the separation of church and state with regards to school prayer and religious tolerance. "Prayer in school" is one of the most hotly debated issues in this ... - Bella Abzug [21]
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"You can't continue to have a world without equal participation of men and women. That's my central thesis." Bella's Story Bella Abzug, who died on ... - Shulamit Aloni [22]
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"The fight should be for all human rights - - religious, ethnic, sexual. We have to stop grouping people; they aren't pickle bottles and you can't stick labels on them." ... - Hanan Ashrawi [23]
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"I am not a politician by choice. Instead I try to pursue the objective of institution building, an essential component of the reconstruction of our nation." ... - Aung San Suu Kyi [24]
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"One must ask, 'Are you doing everything you can?' and I think if the answer is try 'Yes,' then you fell neither hopeless nor despairing." ... - Ela Bhat [25]
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"I realized that although eighty percent of women in India are economically active, they are outside the purview of legislation." Ela's Story ... - Peace Bikunda [26]
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"It started with five women, then 15, then 80, then 150. When it reached these numbers, I realized I had to do something for these women." Timeline: Rwanda ... - Wangari Maathai [27]
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"The myth of male superiority can only be demolished with shining examples of female achievement against which nobody could argue intelligently." Timeline: Kenya ... - Graça Machel [28]
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"We Africans may be impoverished, but we are not poor. ... We can learn things from others, but we also have a lot to offer the world." Timeline: Mozambique ... - Madres de Plaza de Mayo [29]
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"What remains in the end is a deep longing for justice. . .We want you all to remember what happened to our children so that it never happens again." Timeline: ... - Rigoberta Menchú [30]
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"Now I would like to see Guatemala at peace, with indigenous and nonindigenous people living side by side." Timeline: Guatemala 1960 A failed ...
