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Gender Shouldn't Limit You

For Teachers K - 5th
Students decide what gender should be their classroom president.  In this gender role instructional activity, students debate on the roles of the genders, and if they ever intertwine.  
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Museum of Tolerance

Why is This True?

For Teachers 7th Standards
Are wages based on race? On gender? Class members research wages for workers according to race and gender, create graphs and charts of their data, and compute differences by percentages. They then share their findings with adults and...
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Anti-Defamation League

Soccer, Salaries and Sexism

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Call it soccer, call it football, but call it unfair! the US women's soccer team has called out the US Soccer Federation for unfair treatment in terms of salaries, support, and working conditions in a lawsuit filed in 2019. Young...
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Infusing Equity By Gender Into the Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 7th
Young scholars participate in activities to develop life skills related to gender equity.  In this gender equity activity, students examine the roles of people using hats. Young scholars will role play various occupations related to the...
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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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Infusing Equity by Gender into the Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students discover the biases between the two genders by comparing males and females in different species.  For this gender identity lesson, students research National Geographic Magazine and view videos demonstrating the differences...
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Universal Suffrage

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore concept of suffrage. In this voting rights lesson, students participate in a classroom activity that excludes girls from voting. Students discuss gender issues and write essays regarding the restriction of voting rights.
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C-SPAN

Title IX

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
There's more to Title IX than equality in sports. The federal statute—aimed at preventing gender discrimination—guides how schools handle everything from sports to sexual assault. A series of clips from athletes and schools delves into...
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Infusing Equity by Gender Into the Classroom: A Handbook of Classroom Practices

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students match their natural proclivities to possible future careers which are nontraditional for their genders.  They further examine gender stereotypes through other activities.
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Whose Religion Is It?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze the impacts of religious expectations on gender roles. In this gender equity lesson, students compare and contrast different religions in societies in order to understand the cultural influences and effects of both...
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Infusing Equity By Gender Into the Classroom:

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students analyze personal perception of gender role assignments. They complete their "personal" point of view, then complete the "societal" view as a group.
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What's on the Outside/Inside?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read about the idea of gender perspective in the writing of German history. They generate definitions from a list of given vocabulary words. They write definintions using their own words.
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The Power of Words: Male Bashing and Gender

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students brainstorm words that typically describe men or women. They also brainstorm words that are insulting to both genders. They answer questions about the activity and discuss their answers.
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C3 Teachers

Women’s Rights: What Does It Mean to Be Equal?

For Teachers 7th
A guided-inquiry lesson asks seventh graders to research the compelling question, "What does it mean to be equal?" Guided by three supporting questions, researchers complete three formative performance tasks and gather evidence from...
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LIFE DOESN’T FRIGHTEN ME

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners examine gender bias and stereotypes. In this discrimination lesson students participate in class discussions and poetry reading in order to examine the gender stereotypes of fears and develop the understanding that both genders...
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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 lesson students engage in a discussion of gender inequality and then look through the student handbook for...
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I Am More Than You See

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine their personal interests in culture/ethnicity and what they value in terms of physical vs. Personal characteristics. They discuss the forces in society that cause gender discrimination.
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National Woman's History Museum

Getting with the Program

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
A seven-step lesson introduces the emergence of computer sciences and the contributions women made to the profession after World War II. Several science experiments offer pupils a hands-on learning experience that showcases parabolas,...
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Crafting Freedom

F.E.W. Harper: Uplifted from the Shadows

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Young historians discover the life of an incredible African American woman who, as an anti-slavery lecturer prior to the Civil War, defied stereotypes of what women could accomplish. Pupils explore the concept of stereotyping, read...
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Center for History Education

Women's Rights in the American Century

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Today, many young people find it hard to understand why it took over 150 years for women in the United  States to get the right to vote—why there was even a need for the suffrage movement. As they read a series of primary source...
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PBS

“He Named Me Malala”: Understanding Student Activism Through Film

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Malala Yousafzai has become the face of social activism. After watching He Named Me Malala and short student-made films about what young people can do to become instruments of change, class members reflect on what it means to be an...
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INVESTIGATING NONTRADITIONAL OCCUPATIONS

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify careers that are nontraditional for their gender. For this occupations lesson students research careers that are nontraditional for their gender and conduct interviews with individuals employed in nontraditional fields.
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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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WHEN JOHNNY CAME MARCHING HOME

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the roles of men and women throughout history.

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