- Gender Shouldn't Limit You! [1]
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What are the political gender biases among young students? Would they elect a girl president? Problem: Sometimes a group of children doesn't think another kid can do ... - Women and Political Power [2]
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The struggle for women's equality isn't over. Use these resources in your classroom to discuss the modern-day fight for political equality. The gender gap -- unequal access ... - Gender Separate Dialogue Groups [3]
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How do girls and boys see themselves? How do they think they’re seen by others? What do gender stereotypes teach kids about who they’re supposed to be? Materials: Pen and ... - Allies: A Discussion Activity [4]
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Educator and author Mara Sapon-Shevin offers strategies and ideas to help students become allies -- people who stand with or for others. After leading students in a discussion about ... - Bullying: Tips for Students [5]
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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 ... - Defining Multicultural Terminology [6]
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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 ... - 'I Am Special' [7]
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I begin my lesson by telling students that we're going to have a guessing game with only two hints. They are to guess what subject we're going to be discussing by first listening to two stories. The ... - Reflection: What’s Your FRAME? [8]
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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 [9]
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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 ... - Anti-Racism Activity: The Sneetches [10]
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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 ... - What Do Halloween Costumes Say? [11]
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This activity, adaptable across grades, is designed to help students look critically at the Halloween costumes marketed to them. In schools where Halloween is observed, the activity can be used to develop ... - Why Frogs and Snakes Never Play Together [12]
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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 [13]
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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 [14]
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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 ... - Confronting the -isms [15]
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Social justice lesson Teaching social justice requires helping students confront their personal biases because studies show that tolerance training can backfire if not accompanied ... - Friendship Without Barriers [16]
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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 ... - Compassionate Communities [17]
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Compassion lesson Thomas Aquinas is credited with saying, "I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it." As an English teacher, it is my ... - Coalescing Across the Globe [18]
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Activity exchange to explore global differences through pen pals. One of park day school's central values places knowledge -- people's ideas, histories, religions and ... - Juliette Hampton Morgan: A White Woman Who Understood [19]
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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 ... - Totally Us [20]
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Totally Us is a classroom activity developed from Totally Joe . Objectives Students will develop name biographies together in groups of four Students will see that ... - Cooperative Comics [21]
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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. ... - Borders and Boundaries [22]
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Photocopy or create a large map of the school, including the school grounds and the cafeteria. Then have students identify places that cliques or self-segregating groups gather. ... - Community Through Photography [23]
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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 ... - A Bullying Survey [24]
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In this lesson, students evaluate group practices and propose measures to improve the classroom climate. Objectives Students will evaluate group practices and propose ... - Emmett Till: A Classroom Sonnet [25]
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A poetry lesson weaves together the past, present and future of Emmett Till's tragic story. Students will empathize with the ... - Developing a Media Portfolio [26]
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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 ... - Collective Poetry [27]
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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 [28]
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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 ... - Clothing-Based Bias [29]
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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' [30]
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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 ...
