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Infusing Equity in the Classroom by Gender
Students investigate the idea of gender descrimination in the classroom. In this algebra activity, students collect data in stereotyping, and gender bias in the classroom, school materials and activities. They graph and analyze their...
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Who Will Wear the Hat? Who Will Use the Tool?
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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Universal Suffrage
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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Infusing Equity by Gender Into the Classroom: A Handbook of Classroom Practices
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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Nontraditional Job Opportunities
As your learners prepare to enter the workforce, address some common stereotypes that may be limiting their professional goals. The class brainstorms gender-stereotyped careers, exploring where those ideas originate. They complete a job...
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COUNTERACTING MEDIA STEREOTYPING
Students explore the effects of gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination.
Crafting Freedom
F.E.W. Harper: Uplifted from the Shadows
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...
Center for History Education
Women's Rights in the American Century
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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Infusing Equity by Gender into the Classroom: School to Career
High schoolers identify nontraditional career areas for their gender and discuss gender bias and stereotyping. For this nontraditional careers lesson, students research a nontraditional career and shadow the job in the workplace. High...
C-SPAN
Wonder Girls - Advocating for Global Issues
Move over Wonder Woman ... here come the Wonder Girls! Using video clips of photographer Paola Gianturco talking about her work, pupils consider the life experiences of girls around the world, including places such as Tonga and India....
Learning for Justice
Mary Church Terrell
Excerpts from an 1898 speech by civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell offers young scholars an opportunity to investigate how Black American women fought for civil rights long before Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement of the...
Teaching Women's History
Georgian Women
Britain was and is a stratified nation. History sleuths investigate the Georgian Era (1714-1830) of British history to gain an understanding of how the roles women played during this period were influenced by class, race, and religion....
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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Infusing Equity Gender into the Classroom
Students investigate if gender makes a difference in the classroom. For this statistics lesson, students collect data on whether equity by gender in the classroom makes students more successful.
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TV TELLS IT ALL
Learners identify the influence of television on gender roles and talk about how they are changing.
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Infusing Equity By Gender Into the Classroom:
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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The Power of Words: Male Bashing and Gender
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.
EngageNY
Setting a Purpose for Research: Introduction to Media Literacy
What does that picture say? Young historians take a close look at a British advertisement from 1890 to determine the role of gender in advertising. They discuss the implications about women portrayed in the images. Pupils then further...
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All's Fair in Sport And Competition
Pupils design a physical activity contest or game that has no cultural or gender biases which includes an assessment that ranks competitors according to the competitors abilities. They participate in and evaluate the newly designed games...
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IS MY SCHOOL EQUITABLE?
Students evaluate student handbooks and determine if it is gender bias.
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I Am More Than You See
Students discuss the effects of gender bias and stereotyping by identifying personal interests and values. In this sociology activity, students iscuss the forces in society which cause gender discrimination, create poems about...
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IS MY SCHOOL EQUITABLE?
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
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.
National Woman's History Museum
Getting with the Program
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,...