Anti-Defamation League
Identity-Based Bullying
What is identity? What is bullying? What is identity-based bullying? After discussing these questions as a class, pupils engage in partner discussions before participating in a small group activity to act out bullying scenarios. Then,...
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THOSE ANCIENT GREEKS
Students research Athens and Sparta and based on their research they are to make a visual aid showing their findings.
Brooklyn Museum
Lorna Simpson: Gathered
Lorna Simpson is a photographer who has put together a collection of photos from the 1950s in order to challenge the idea that primary source documents are objective in their portrayal of history. Learners are introduced to Ms. Simpson's...
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Lessons for Atlatl Users with Some Experience-Grade 6
Sixth graders experiment with an atlatl and dart. In this sixth grade data management mathematics lesson, 6th graders explore and determine the most suitable methods of displaying data collected from their experimentation with...
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Empowered Barbie
Students access prior knowledge of vocabulary on feminism and psychoanalytic theory, and gender schema. In this Empowered Barbie lesson plan, students recreate a Barbie doll. Students write a reflection on how they changed...
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Anne Frank: Pictures - First Impressions
Fourth graders identify personal biases and formulate a plan to 'make a difference. They, hopefully, increase their sensitivity to diversity. Groups of students view photographs of different people, and share their first impressions.
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Tolerance: Gender Issues
Students explore why some professions have been gender-dominant in the past. In this lesson plan, students identify some professions that have typically had one specific gender employed in the past, then research that job to see when it...
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Jazz-Age Intrigue
Eleventh graders read The Great Gatsby and explain the jazz age. They use jazz age terms to create their own short story, scene, or letter.
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I Am More Than You See
Middle schoolers discuss the effects of gender bias and stereotyping by identifying personal interests and values. In this sociology lesson plan, students iscuss the forces in society which cause gender discrimination, create poems about...
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Atlatl Lessons Grades 4-12: Lesson for Beginning Users of Atlatl
Sixth graders determine the mean, range median and mode of a set of numbers and display them. In this data lesson students form a set of data and use computer spreadsheet to display the information. They extend of the process by...
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Promoting Tolerance
High schoolers create multimedia presentations on stereotyping. In this stereotyping lesson plan, students have discussions on different kinds of stereotyping, how it makes people feel, and create a multimedia presentation on it.
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Hello, How Do You Do?
Students role play proper greetings and etiquette in formal and informal work and social situations. Students compare and contrast introductions and conversational conventions in their native country and in the United States by writing...
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Sexual Stereotypes in Japan
Students are introduced to the various stereotypes faced by women in Japan. In groups, they discover the types of discrimination women received because of the stereotypes and how they have confronted them over time. They develop their...
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The Power of Words: Social Justice Words
Students role-play the position of a presidential candidate. They create their platform to include social justice programs and present it to the class. They answer questions to end the lesson.
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The Power of Words Words That Reinforce Stereotypes
Students devise and discuss definitions for words that are promote stereotypes. They share the definitions and impressions in small groups.
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Development
In this psychology worksheet, students complete 5 short answer questions on human's developmental stages and Kohlberg's theory.
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Wardrobe Building: What's in Your Closet?
Fourth graders rewrite a sentence using a different style of English each time.
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Warning Signs
Learners identify the signs that someone is being bullied. For this school climate lesson, students discuss the provided list of signs that one is being bullied. Links are provided to other lessons about bullying.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Bias in Language
This lesson focuses on bias in language such as gender and cultural bias and how to avoid them in public speaking. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.e
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University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Restoring Women to World Studies [Pdf]
In much of the social studies-especially courses focused on world history, geography, and culture-there has been a long-standing awareness that the experience of women has been left out of the narrative. Recent changes in state,...
City University of New York
Chinese Cultural Studies: Women in China: Past and the Present
This article discusses the equality problems women in China face even though things have changed since 1949. Includes information on divorce.
Other
Gendercide Watch: Case Study: Female Infanticide
A look at the ongoing problem of female infanticide in India and China. Contains statistical information along with summaries and background information for each case.
Other
Optimistic Bias in Perceiving Physical and Mental Health
This article looks at the tendency to view oneself as invulnerable to experience negative life events. They suggest this goes hand in hand with the tendency to overestimate one's probability of experiencing postive life events. (Miami...