- Debunking Stereotypes About Muslims and Islam [1]
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This activity will help students identify similarities and differences between the U.S. Muslim population and the entire U.S. population. It will also help dispel common stereotypes about Islam. ... - Who's Voting Now? [2]
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This activity asks students to read and compare the language of selected Civil Rights legislation. Objectives Understand how a democratic society debates issues and ... - Understanding Disabilities [3]
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In this lesson, students will first learn about disabilities. Then they will learn tips for communicating respectfully with people with disabilities. Framework People ... - The First Amendment and Freedom of Religion [4]
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In this lesson, students will use the case of Park51’s Islamic Cultural Center as a starting point for a discussion about whether religious freedom is absolute and if religious freedom requires respect for ... - The Language of the Immigration Debate [5]
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In this lesson students will explore the language of the immigration debate. First, students will learn the definitions of some of the commonly used terms. Next, they will learn the difference between a word’s ... - What Do We Have in Common? (Lunch Day Mixer) [6]
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Excerpted from http://adulted.about.com/od/icebreakers/qt/2minutemixer.htm Split the students into pairs. Each pair has 30 seconds to find five things they have in common. At the ... - Making New Friends (Lunch Day Mixer) [7]
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Based on Musical Chairs Students sit at cafeteria tables with people they don’t usually sit with. (You can use a technique such as distributing playing cards, or “Life Savers in ... - Building Sentences and Stories (Lunch Day Mixer) [8]
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Students sit at tables with students they don’t usually sit with. One person says a word that will start a sentence. The next person chooses a word to be the next word in the ... - Fact or Fiction (Lunch Day Mixer) [9]
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Based on Icebreakers and Introductions Each person writes down four facts about himself or herself, one of which is not true. Each person takes turns reading his or her list ... - What’s Your Name? (Lunch Day Mixer) [10]
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Based on Crossing Borders/Border Crossings and What's In a Name?" Have students go around their table and introduce themselves, and tell people about their name. ... - It’s About Me (Lunch Day Mixer) [11]
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Loosely based on "What Are You?" Students bring a photograph to school with them that shows someone or something important to them. It might be a picture of them at an ... - Mix It Up With a Deck of Cards (Lunch Day Mixer) [12]
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Based on Mixing It Up with Purpose As students enter the cafeteria, give each student a playing card. Tell them to sit at a table where everyone has a card of the same suit or at ... - Teen Rights [13]
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In this lesson, students will explore what teen rights actually are. They will also read about some recent cases where teens felt their rights were violated. Students will debate the nature of rights ... - Charity and Justice: What’s the Difference? [14]
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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 ... - Top Ten Ways to Be Successful (and Happy) in Literacy (and in Life) [15]
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Activity Exchange
One language arts educator's guidance for her new students. 10. Remain calm. Try to avoid banging your head against the table (or the wall) (or the window) (or another ... - Interpreting Visuals: Rural America [16]
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Web Exclusive activities for What is Rural America? (page 28-31) from Teaching Tolerance No. 38. Activity #1: Defining Key Vocabulary in Visuals Essential ... - The Gulf Oil Spill: An Environmental Justice Disaster [17]
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In April 2010, an environmental catastrophe occurred in the Gulf of Mexico. A deep-sea oil-drilling rig exploded, and millions of gallons of oil continued to gush into the Gulf for several months. The disaster ... - A Time to Speak: A Speech by Charles Morgan [18]
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In this lesson, students will study Morgan’s speech to better understand the civil rights movement and the value of speaking out against injustice. On Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, four ... - A Social Justice Study [19]
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Activity Exchange
I am an eighth-grade language arts teacher in Durham, New Hampshire. My students have grown up in an environment where there is very little exposure to ethnic, racial or LGBT communities. They are ripe ... - Cliques in Schools [20]
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Friendship circles are groups of people who share some common interests or values. They can be healthy, nurturing and supportive. Being bonded to others because of a shared love of sports, music or ... - Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case That Made History [21]
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Film Kit
Bullied is a documentary film that chronicles one student’s ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies and offers an inspiring ... - Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice [22]
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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 ... - Editorial Cartoons: A Conclusion [23]
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Activities will help students understand strategies used in editorial cartoons and create an editorial cartoon that focuses on a social justice issue. This is the final lesson in the ... - Editorial Cartoon: Racism [24]
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Objective Activities will help students understand how artists use titles to bring context to editorial cartoons This is the twelfth lesson in the series " Using ... - Editorial Cartoons: Gender Discrimination [25]
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Activities meet the following objectives: understand how a cartoon uses words and images to make a political statement learn about gender discrimination and Title IX ... - Editorial Cartoon: Hate [26]
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Activities will help students: understand the use of dialogue in editorial cartoons question why one group might blindly hate another group This is the thirteenth lesson ... - Editorial Cartoon: Bullying [27]
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Activities will help students understand how artists use images to represent an idea. This is the tenth lesson in the series " Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice ... - Editorial Cartoons: A Historical Example of Immigration Debates [28]
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Activities will help students: understand how a cartoon uses irony and caricature to make a political statement understand a cartoon in its historical context connect past and present debates about ... - Editorial Cartoons: Language Diversity [29]
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Activities meet the following objectives: understand the importance of context in decoding an editorial cartoon understand how a cartoon uses satire to make a political statement ... - Editorial Cartoon: Equal Opportunity [30]
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Activities will help students explore how editorial cartoons often use familiar adages or idioms in new ways to make a point about something. This is the seventh lesson in the series ...
