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\nDetermining the Existence of Gender Bias in Daily Tasks\n

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\nHelp your kids explore gender bias. Learners design and conduct a survey examining role responsibilities within families. They determine the percentage of responsibilities for males vs. females and graph the results. Then they analyze...\n
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\nAnalyzing the News\n

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\nWith so many ways to follow the news today, it is imperative to think critically about the sources of information we are turning to. Here is a fantastic graphic organizer that will help your learners develop the skills to...\n
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\nNot So Fair and Balanced: Analyzing Bias in the Media\n

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\nLife is not always fair. Who's heard that before? This same concept moves to a larger scale using prejudice and bias. Pupils discuss where prejudice attitudes derive and how they develop throughout life. Reading comprehension...\n
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\nBias Through History: Analyzing Historical Sources\n

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\nYoung journalists use the E.S.C.A.P.E. (evidence, source, context, audience, purpose, and execution) strategy to evaluate historical and contemporary examples of bias in the news. The class then uses the provided discussion questions to...\n
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\nSee how bias operates firsthand. Half of the class reads one article while the other half reads another article on the same event. The obvious differences emerge when the two sides talk about their observations though. Several handouts...\n
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\nHow to Analyze the News\n

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\nTeach kids how to watch television, specifically the news, with this creative idea for learners of all ages from the Media Awareness Network. The elementary school plan focuses on presenting news as a story and uses Jon Scieszka's story...\n
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\nAnalyzing Political Campaign Commercials\n

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\nImagine a lesson plan that models for learners how to separate facts from opinions. How to detect bias. How to evaluate a source of information. How to identify propaganda. Although designed for middle schoolers, the activities in this...\n
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\nAnalyzing How Words Communicate Bias\n

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\nWords are powerful ... can your class choose them wisely? Scholars evaluate news articles to discover the concepts of tone, charge, and bias during a media literacy lesson. The resource focuses on recognizing implicit information and...\n
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\nTo conclude an eight-lesson study of the events that occurred in the early colonial period in Deerfield, Massachussetss, class members evaluate the point of view and bias found in late 19th and early 20th century retellings.\n
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\nLesson 3: Bias\n

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\nHow do journalists balance bias and ethical reporting? The final lesson in a series of five from iCivics examines the different types of bias and how they affect the news we read. Young reporters take to the Internet to find examples of...\n
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\n“Walling Out the Unwanted”: Understanding the Barriers that Perpetuate Anti-Immigrant Bias\n

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\nAs part of a study of immigrant bias, high schoolers investigate the language used in blogs, readings, media reports, and current legislation whose language perpetuates xenophobia. They then consider ways they can get involved in...\n
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\nCan You Beat Cognitive Bias?\n

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\nIn a time of fake news, media manipulation, and Internet trolls, a resource equips learners with the tools they need to recognize and combat resources that are designed to appeal to our cognitive biases. Introduce learners to five...\n
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\nBias, Bullying and Bad Behavior in the NFL\n

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\nA 2014 case of locker room behavior in the National Football League offers high schoolers an opportunity to get involved in the conversation of bullying and abuse. Class members read about the case and analyze quotes that reveal...\n
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\nUnderstanding and Analyzing “The U.S. of Us” by Richard Blanco\n

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\nCurrent immigration issues and the rhetoric surrounding the controversies come into focus with a lesson that uses Richard Blanco's anthem, \"The U.S. of Us,\" written after the August 2019 attack in El Paso, Texas, to open a discussion of...\n
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\nUnderstanding Language: Slant, Spin, and Bias in the News\n

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\nWe live in a time of fake news, alternative realities, and media bias. What could be more timely than an activity that asks class members to research how different sources report the same topic in the news?\n
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\nAnalyzing Primary Sources\n

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\nAnalyzing primary and secondary sources is a necessary skill for students to attain, and can be learned through interesting activities.\n
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\nUnderstanding Rhetoric and Evaluating Bias in Text\n

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\nStudents can learn about bias in text and the rhetorical principles proposed by Aristotle.\n
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\nBiases, Assumptions, and Stereotypes\n

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\nLearners examine stereotypes and how to identify their own assumptions.  In this bias and assumption instructional activity students read a story and complete a worksheet. \n
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\nRecognizing Bias: Analyzing Context and Execution\n

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\nYoung journalists learn how to identify bias in the news media.  First, they watch a video in which a Newseum expert identifies bias in a story about the 1919 Chicago race riots. They then use what they have learned to analyze a...\n
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\nStudents examine gender bias on television and in the movies. In this social science lesson, students watch various shows and when an instance of stereotypical behavior, or gender bias situation occurs, students think about the problem....\n
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\nAnalyzing Visual of Samson and the Lion\n

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\nWhat strategies do historians use for interpreting visuals? This simple worksheet lists four questions that learners can use to approach and analyze historical photographs, fine pieces of art, etc., as well as an opportunity to apply the...\n
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\nLooking for Trouble - Using the Internet to Research Structured Controversy\n

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\nDiscuss controversial issues with your charges. More importantly, discuss how you have to research both sides of a controversy before taking a stance. In groups, middle schoolers research the controversial issue of dog sled racing. They...\n
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\nCAN WE SWITCH GENDERS OF STORY CHARACTERS?\n

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\nAnalyze characters and stories to identify stereotyping. Learners will examine the concept of character gender to evaluate bias in classroom story books. They are asked to read a story or play and change the gender of the character to...\n
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\nLearners consider the differences between egalitarian and traditional marriages. They analyze a series of video clips and mid-century advertisements looking for evidence of gender bias in marriage. Feminism, gender roles for women and...\n
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