In this lesson, students will first learn about disabilities. Then they will learn tips for communicating respectfully with people with disabilities.
The lessons that follow will start a conversation about material consumption.
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.
In this lesson, students will deconstruct common myths about immigrants and the process of immigration in 21st century America. They will also have an opportunity to share their knowledge with the greater community.
This lesson explores the concept of fairness through questions such as: What is fair? Should all people be treated the same? What would you do if you saw someone treated unfairly? Students are encouraged to reflect upon fairness in their own lives and communities.
This lesson reminds students that they, too, make choices about whether to stand aside—or stand up—when someone else is being maligned, bullied or harassed. In standing up, we honor not only the other person’s humanity, but also our own.
This lesson is an excerpt from the accompanying teacher's guide to One Survivor Remembers [26], a teaching kit built around the incredible life story of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein.
In this lesson, students apply a geographer’s framework to the migration of women who leave Latin America and enter the United States without legal documentation. Students explore the motivation for movement among their peers and then compare their classmates’ experiences with those of some of the women profiled.
In these activities, students will imagine themselves in the role of these women and weigh the risks and potential benefits of their actions. In the process, they will develop an understanding of undocumented workers that goes far deeper than the caricatures that are often part of the debate over policy.
In these activities, students will review some of the problems faced by women who enter the United States without legal documentation, research programs in their state that address these problems and identify ways they can help.
These activities will help students make connections between the foods they eat every day and the harsh experiences of the undocumented female workers who play an essential role in bringing that food to them.
Unwilling or unable to complain about working conditions, immigrants routinely suffer chronic problems brought about by pesticide use, harsh weather and the lack of proper equipment. Using primary sources, students will learn more about these conditions—from the past and the present.
About 4 million undocumented immigrant women live and work in the United States. They live in fear of job-site immigration raids and deportations, which result in personal and economic costs both here and back home. In this lesson, students will learn how current immigration policies are tied to those costs.
In this lesson, students will analyze their thoughts and feelings to see if they currently hold any biases toward people of different ages. They will then explore the experiences of people who have faced discrimination because of their age. Finally, students will reflect on ageism.
These lessons provide a framework that will help students talk about their own and others’ families in safe, caring ways.
In this lesson, students will learn what constitutes as discrimination, how real-life teens have taken a stand against such acts and ways they can do the same.
In this lesson, students will use a primary source—an NBC news report from 1961—to investigate the Freedom Rides. The lesson will also explore segregation in the South and the tenets of nonviolent protest.
This lesson explores the concept of health disparities for socially disadvantaged groups (e.g., youth of color and LGBT youth). Students are encouraged to examine the causes and impact of these disparities and to create possible solutions for overcoming them.
In this lesson, students will explore the ways people with a critical health condition or disease might feel, as well as various ways they can support and show compassion toward those who are living with an illness.
In this lesson, students learn about the principles of universal design, analyze examples of it, and develop their own product, communication or environment in accordance with its principles.
In this lesson, students will gain a better understanding of what it means to be empathetic and be able to identify behaviors that show empathy toward others.
In this lesson, you will analyze two photographs, each dealing with a different element of identity. This is part of the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice [49] series.
Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice is a series of 12 lessons. Each lesson focuses on a contemporary social justice issue. These lessons are multidisciplinary and geared toward middle- and high-school students.
In this lesson, students will analyze photographs that show people with different abilities and of different ages to explore assumptions about ability, age and activism. This is part of the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice [49] series.
Photographs may tell a story or make a statement about a greater concept or ideal. Sometimes photographers use the subjects in a photo to convey a message. This lesson is part of the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice [49] series.
Photographs can sometimes capture important moments in American history. This lesson is part of the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice [49] series.
In this lesson, students compare and contrast two photographs of women. In doing so, they evaluate how a photo creates a mood and how photos can encourage or challenge stereotypes. This activity is part of the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice [49] series.
The photo shows an anti-immigration protest on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. People with picket signs are arguing for stricter immigration policies that would make it a felony to be in the United States illegally. In this lesson, you will analyze two photographs, each dealing with a different element of identity. This is part of the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice [49] series.
In this lesson, students will analyze a photograph of people protesting what they see as an unjust law: A law prohibiting marriage equality in California. This lesson is part of the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice [49] series.
In this lesson, students analyze a photograph from the freedom riders’ protest. This lesson is part of the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice [49] series.
In this lesson, students analyze a photograph of Mildred Jeter Loving and Richard Loving—the interracial couple that took the case of their marriage all the way to the Supreme Court—as a springboard for exploring the case, and for thinking about analogous issues today. This lesson is part of the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice [49] series.
The photo shows two students collecting signatures to protest the treatment of women at the university. This lesson is part of the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice [49] series.
This is the final lesson in the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice [49] series. Preceding lessons explored a variety of social justice issues through the lens of photographers and their pictures. This activity will offer students several different options for showcasing their understanding.
This lesson is the first in a series called “The Different Colors of Beauty [64].” The overall goal of these lessons is to help students develop their racial or ethnic identities in a safe and open classroom environment, while being conscious of our multicultural, diverse world.
This lesson, the second in a series [64], encourages students to think and talk openly about the concept of beauty, particularly as it overlaps with issues of race and racial identity.
This lesson is the third in a series called “The Different Colors of Beauty [64].” The goal of these lessons is to help students develop their racial or ethnic identities in a safe and open classroom environment, while being aware of our multicultural and diverse world.
This lesson is the fourth in a series called “The Different Colors of Beauty [64].” The goal is to help students develop their racial or ethnic identities in a safe and open classroom environment, while being aware of our multicultural, diverse world.
This lesson is the fifth in a series called “The Different Colors of Beauty [64].” The goal of these lessons is to help students develop their racial or ethnic identities in a safe and open classroom environment, and appreciate the broad spectrum of beauty in our diverse, multicultural world.
This lesson is the sixth in a series called “The Different Colors of Beauty [64].” The goal of these lessons is to help students develop their racial or ethnic identities in a safe and open classroom environment, and appreciate the broad spectrum of beauty in our diverse, multicultural world.
Increases in obesity and diet-related diseases are major health problems in the United States. During the last 20 years there has been a dramatic increase in the nation’s obesity rates, correlating with increased rates of cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancer, Type 2 diabetes, increased health-care costs, reduced quality of life and increased risk for premature death.
In this introductory lesson, students examine voting rights in the early years of the United States and the causes and effects of the first major expansion of voting rights, which took place in the late 1700s and first half of the 1800s. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to explain where various groups of Americans stood regarding the right to vote before the Civil War, and will hypothesize about what they expect happened next.
One of the cornerstones of American democracy is the right to vote. Yet the history of voting rights in the United States is complicated. Although the original Constitution explained who could run for national office and how often elections were to be held, it remained silent on the subject of exactly who could exercise the right to vote. In the nation’s early years, that decision was made by individual states.
In this lesson students learn about the Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th and 15th) that abolished slavery, guaranteed African American citizenship and secured men the right to vote.
This lesson is the third in a series called Expanding Voting Rights [78]. The overall goal of the series is for students to explore the complicated history of voting rights in this country. Two characteristics of that history stand out: First, in fits and starts, more and more Americans have gained the right to vote; and second, the federal government has played an increasing role over time in securing these rights.
This is the fifth and final lesson in a series called “Expanding Voting Rights [78].” The overall goal of the series is for students to explore the complicated history of voting rights in the United States.
The overall goal of these lessons is to help students recognize and accept differences among each other and within the larger community and how their own unique family contributes to a richer society. As they begin to understand themselves more thoroughly, learning opportunities likely will open up to explore their own biases and prejudices. The series consists of the following four lessons.
This lesson is the first in a series of lessons called “Issues of Poverty [82].” Students explore the causes of poverty in the United States and the factors that perpetuate it. The four lessons aim to challenge the idea that poverty is simply the result of individual shortcomings. Students will examine the ways poverty is closely related to economic and political policy, and will work to discover why it disproportionately affects members of non-dominant groups—that is, groups that have historically been oppressed.
This lesson is the second in a series of lessons called “Issues of Poverty [82].” Students explore the causes of poverty in the United States and the structural factors that perpetuate it. Students will examine the ways poverty is closely related to economic and political policy, and will work to discover why it disproportionately affects members of non-dominant groups—that is, groups that have historically oppressed groups.
This lesson is the third in a series called “Issues of Poverty [82].” Students explore the causes of poverty in the United States and the structural factors that perpetuate it. Students will examine the ways poverty is closely related to economic and political policy, and will work to discover why it disproportionately affects members of nondominant groups—that is, groups that have historically been oppressed.
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[1] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/understanding-disabilities
[2] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/ability
[3] http://www.tolerance.org/category/anti-bias-domain/diversity
[4] http://www.tolerance.org/category/level/pre-k-k
[5] http://www.tolerance.org/category/level/grades-1-2
[6] http://www.tolerance.org/category/level/grades-3-5
[7] http://www.tolerance.org/category/level/grades-6-8
[8] http://www.tolerance.org/category/level/grades-9-12
[9] http://www.tolerance.org/category/subject/reading-and-language-arts
[10] http://www.tolerance.org/category/subject/social-studies
[11] http://www.tolerance.org/category/subject/ell-/-esl
[12] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/wants-versus-needs
[13] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/wealth-and-poverty
[14] http://www.tolerance.org/category/anti-bias-domain/justice
[15] http://www.tolerance.org/category/subject/arts
[16] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/debunking-stereotypes-about-muslims-and-islam
[17] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/religion
[18] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/immigration-myths
[19] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/immigration
[20] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/what-s-fair
[21] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/rights
[22] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/one-survivor-remembers-bullies-bystanders
[23] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/bullying
[24] http://www.tolerance.org/category/anti-bias-domain/action
[25] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/one-survivor-remembers-intolerance-today
[26] http://www.tolerance.org/osr
[27] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/race-and-ethnicity
[28] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/motivation-movement
[29] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/economics-risk
[30] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/acting-locally
[31] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/vital-work
[32] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/paying-their-health
[33] http://www.tolerance.org/category/subject/science-and-health
[34] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/family-ties
[35] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/family
[36] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/what-ageism
[37] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/appearance
[38] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/talking-about-our-families
[39] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/standing-against-discrimination
[40] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/freedom-riders
[41] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/events
[42] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/health-disparities
[43] http://www.tolerance.org/category/subject/math-and-technology
[44] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/treating-people-dignity
[45] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/universal-design
[46] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/developing-empathy
[47] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/school-culture
[48] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/using-photographs-teach-social-justice-exploring-identity
[49] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/using-photographs-teach-social-justice
[50] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/media-literacy
[51] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/using-photographs-teach-social-justice
[52] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/using-photographs-teach-social-justice-affirming-our-commona
[53] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/using-photographs-teach-social-justice-supporting-social-bor
[54] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/using-photographs-teach-social-justice-exposing-racism
[55] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/using-photographs-teach-social-justice-exposing-gender-bias
[56] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/gender-equity
[57] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/using-photographs-teach-social-justice-exposing-anti-immigra
[58] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/using-photographs-teach-social-justice-confronting-unjust-la
[59] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/using-photographs-teach-social-justice-confronting-unjust-pr
[60] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/using-photographs-teach-social-justice-legal-action-supreme
[61] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/using-photographs-teach-social-justice-advertisements-promot
[62] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/using-photographs-teach-social-justice-showcasing-your-under
[63] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/looking-closely-ourselves
[64] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/different-colors-beauty
[65] http://www.tolerance.org/category/anti-bias-domain/identity
[66] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/different-colors-beauty
[67] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/looking-race-and-racial-identity-through-critical-literacy-c
[68] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/sharing-our-colors-writing-poetry
[69] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/family-colors-interviewing-our-families
[70] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/painting-beauty-creating-self-portraits
[71] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/different-colors-beauty-reflection
[72] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/food-deserts-causes-consequences-and-solutions
[73] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/early-republic
[74] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/expanding-voting-rights
[75] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/african-americans-face-and-fight-obstacles-voting
[76] http://www.tolerance.org/category/classroom-resources/resistance-and-obstacles
[77] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/voting-rights-act-1965-and-beyond
[78] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/expanding-voting-rights
[79] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/26th-amendment
[80] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/family-tapestry
[81] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/what-poverty
[82] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/issues-poverty
[83] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/poverty-and-unemployment-exploring-connections
[84] http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/cycle-poverty
[85] http://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources
[86] http://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources?page=7
[87] http://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources?page=1
[88] http://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources?page=2
[89] http://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources?page=3
[90] http://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources?page=4
[91] http://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources?page=5
[92] http://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources?page=6
[93] http://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources?page=9