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Strategies to Overcome Gender Bias in the Machine Shop: Knurling

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students demonstrate the use of a knurling tool. In this machine shop technique lesson, students will demonstrate safety as they properly use the knurling tool to create a diamond knurl and a straight knurl on a cylindrical piece of...
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Gender Equity: Gender Role Assignment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars analyze and compare personal and societal perception of gender roles.  In this gender roles lesson, students record their personal point of view on various tasks such as doing dishes or car maintenance.  Young scholars...
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Infusing Equity by Gender Into the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the gender equality of past civilizations. In this interdisciplinary lesson plan, students use history books to determine which of the ancient Greek City States was the most equitable concerning gender. Students will...
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Leveling the Gender Playing Field

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore whether or not the gender 'playing field' is becoming more level. They share their views by responding to questions regarding changing attitudes about women and men in the past, present and future.
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LANGUAGE IN CLASSROOM TEXTS

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students gain an understanding and awareness of the bias, stereotyping, and discrimination that is present in school materials. They review everyday printed materials and their textbooks for evidence of gender bias and/or stereotyping.
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What Influences Our Perception of Gender Roles?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research gender equity and the media.  For this gender equity lesson, students evaluate the influence of various media on both individuals and society.  Students discuss examples of media that portray gender roles and research a...
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Cinderella: an Adaptation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners create a list of characteristics for the heroine of a fairy tale and discuss ways these images affect behavior and self-esteem.  In this, The House on Mango Street gender equity lesson plan, students identify common...
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WHAT INFLUENCES OUR PERCEPTION OF GENDER ROLES?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners talk about the influence of media on gender equity perception.
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Going to Bat for Girls

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore gender equality. In this Teaching Tolerance instructional activity, students listen to a lecture regarding a family's struggles with inequality. Learners respond to discussion questions following the lecture.
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Who Will Wear the Hat? Who Will Use the Tool?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students determine that there are nontraditional careers for their gender. In this gender equity lesson, students along with the guidance counselor discuss different jobs and vocations by looking at associated tools and props. Students...
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Mathematics in Various Carees

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Pupils consider gender equity in mathematics careers. Students will view 12 15 minute episodes on future math careers then discuss that particular career as well as how women have been treated in both traditional and non traditional math...
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Can Girls Be Plumbers? And Other Gender Stereotypes

For Teachers K - 5th
Students realize the effects of stereotypes by collaboratively creating a chart with the rest of their class. In this equality lesson, students demonstrate stereotypes by collaborating on a jobs chart and matching pictures of people they...
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Multicultural Issues and the Law: Gender and Race Based Schooling

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the problems associated with gender based and race based education. In groups, they research the history of education and the laws that have changed education and impacted lives. They brainstorm a list of the positives...
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Gender Equity in the Classroom and the Workplace

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research careers non-traditional to their genders. They job shadow at cooperating businesses and investigate gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination.
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An Introduction To NGO's Gender Equality Program

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders are introduced to the hardships women are facing to the projects of a variety of organizations. They assess Canada's participation in world affairs with reference to human rights and modern conflicts. Pupils compare...
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EMOTIONS AND GENDER EQUITY

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Pupils discuss emotions and decide as a group which emotions are O.K. for males/females. They discuss solutions to gender bias in terms of the different emotions and write a reflective essay about what they learn from the discussion.
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Shades of Gray

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine their own strengths and weaknesses and try to determine if it is a result of nature, nuture or both. After reading an article, they discuss how gender may or may not account for differences in intelligence. They...
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Physical Education Unit Plan: Soccer - Lesson 6

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Here is the sixth in a 10-lesson series on soccer. It takes a look at the role of gender in the sport of soccer. In general, are boys’ sports and girls’ sports equal? Are men’s sports and women’s sports equal? Is there equality in...
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A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars analyze the numbers of male vs female administrators and teachers from their school. In this gender equality lesson plan, students use school yearbooks from the 1950's threw present to count how many male vs. female...
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Newseum

Slanted Facts and Slippery Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The Internet is known as the information superhighway, but sometimes it's hard to know when to hit the brakes on unreliable sources. Using a well-rounded lesson plan, pupils read and summarize articles about the gender pay gap and...
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Anti-Defamation League

Women’s Inequity in Pay: Could It Be Sexism, Implicit Bias or Both?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Equal pay for equal work? High schoolers research the reasons for the inequity in women's pay. They read articles, examine graphs, engage in discussion, and then craft an essay in which they suggest a way to address the gender wage gap.
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IS MY SCHOOL EQUITABLE?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the students handbook and revise each section to make it equitable for males and females. In this stereotypes instructional activity students engage in a discussion of gender inequality and then look through the student...
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Statistical Analysis of Data by Gender

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students examine and identify gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination in school materials, activities, and classroom instruction. They apply descriptive statistics knowledge to real-world data.
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Infusing Equity by Gender into the classroom

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine equality. In this civics lesson, students appoint committees for various offices then model a mock committee/application process in the classroom, followed by a discussion of whether equity was achieved or not and why.

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