Stereotypes Lesson Plans

Students define what a stereotype is and how people are affected by them. In this stereotype lesson, students participate in a surprise bag experiment. Students complete several worksheets after viewing a video about stereotypes.

Fourth graders evaluate American Indian web sites and develop an understanding of bias and stereotyping. In this evaluation instructional activity, 4th graders use a website evaluation tool and collect information on present-day members of a selected American Indian tribe. Students present their written portraits to the class.

 Students become familiar with stereotypes associated with Native Americans.  In this Native American lesson, 5th graders research and complete a graphic organizer about a particular Native American tribe. Students share facts that dispel stereotypes.

Learners investigate stereotypes people have about cultural differences and personal choices. In this stereotypes activity, students identify stereotypes in books, television, and society. Learners work in groups to find and rewrite stereotypical comments from books.

Students view headshots of people representing different ethnic groups, draw and color bodies and clothing they feel best represents each headshot, and observe drawings made by classmates. Students then identify and discuss stereotypes, and tendency to categorize people based on superficial information.

Define and understand what stereotypes are by reading an article with stereotyping in it. Young scholars will locate how it shows stereotyping and answer questions about the stereotypes. Finally, they will write their own pieces of original work.

Students explore stereotyping and discrimination by create a 3 dimensional piece of artwork. In this literacy/stereotyping lesson, students listen to the book Dragon of Brog, in which mythical characters experience discrimination. Students sculpt a magical character out of plasticene and write a related description of this character.

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 associate with those jobs. Ultimately, the students observe the stereotypes they are accustomed to and devise ways to think around them.

Students confront age-related stereotypes, explore how stereotyping impacts their lives, and discuss how they can make changes to reduce over-generalizations, unfair assumptions, and uncritical judgments about groups. They use a persuasion map to debate common stereotypes.

Students examine the concepts related to stereotypes. In this stereotyping lesson, students define the word "stereotype" before working in a group to develop stereotype statements. They determine if the statements are fair. They work with balloons to pop the  stereotypes.