- Readers' Theater [1]
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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 ... - Defining Multicultural Terminology [2]
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As a veteran teacher of English, literature and history, I have employed many different lessons to encourage my students to seek understanding of other cultures. To this end, I ... - Christmas Curriculum: Unintended Consequences [3]
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This classic article from Childhood Education explores the downfalls of popular Christmas curriculum and rings as true today as it did 20 years ago. Celebration of Christmas is a ... - Reflection: What’s Your FRAME? [4]
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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 ... - Social Boundaries Activity: Map It Out [5]
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Teachers and students draw maps showing where they think social divisions exist at school, and compare views of the community as a whole. Materials Art supplies ... - Stay in the Mix with Music! [6]
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Explore how music divides - and unites. Who: All people who love music What: Music In Our Schools Month When: All month long Websites: Music for All ... - Music for Justice [7]
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This activity focuses on musical explorations building on justice and inclusion themes. Perspective Before conducting this activity, provide students with historical ... - Classroom Community Building [8]
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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 ... - The Philosopher's Stone [9]
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In my classroom, we engage in an activity that allows students to voice their ever-growing opinions about fairness and justice in a manner that not only promotes writing and oral skills but also fosters the ... - Friendship Without Barriers [10]
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Friendship Without Barriers is excerpted from the teaching kit "Rhinos and Raspberries: Tolerance Tales for the Early Grades," a literature-based teaching kit. Objectives ... - Cooperative Comics [11]
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Comic books are visual literature. This simple cooperative group activity allows students to identify confrontational issues within their own school and then imagine solutions. ... - Community Through Photography [12]
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Reporting on their communities helps students recognize problems and find strategies for change. The communities we live in determine a good part of our lives. This is especially ... - Developing a Media Portfolio [13]
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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 ... - Holocaust Art Education Project [14]
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Holocaust study encourages discussion about what it means to be a responsible citizen. The Respect ... - Collective Poetry [15]
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Collective poetry is an exercise designed to encourage students to work from a shared pattern in order to join their voices in a collective rhythm. We all have stories. In telling ... - Pre-WWII European Jewish Life Photo Project [16]
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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 ... - 'Mathematics for Our Past' [17]
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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 ... - Singing for Peace [18]
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Teacher/musician uses music to help students deal with images of war. When the daily newspaper depicted gruesome violence with horrifying headlines about the war in Iraq, my thoughts ... - Beat for Peace [19]
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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 ... - My Rights: Their Rights [20]
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Teach students about the right to safety with a project based on the 1989 Charter of Children's Rights. It isn't very hard to get middle school students thinking about ... - Brown v. Board: An American Legacy [21]
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Explore the history of school segregation, the Brown case and its relevance in the ongoing struggle for school equity. The Teaching Tolerance magazine article An American ... - Problems with Christmas Curriculum [22]
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School activities surrounding Christmas can have unintentional negative consequences like reinforcing commercialism, focusing on "good" and "bad" behavior and isolating students who ... - Sexism: From Identification to Activism [23]
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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. ... - Will and Reason [24]
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Utilizing Shakespeare and theater to examine modern day violence. Eight actors enter a theatre rehearsal studio in Montgomery, Ala. The leader is Peter Howard, a guest artist at the ... - Migration and the Spirits of Life [25]
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Celebrated annually on November 2, Dia de los Muertos, or "Day of the Dead," embraces life as it pokes fun at the Grim Reaper. (Note: In some regions, the celebration spans two days, from November ... - The Rights of the Child [26]
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Middle school students build their own Bill of Rights. Lesson Overview Team Harmony taught other students about the UN's Declaration on the Rights of a Child during ...
