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Writing Exercise: The Neolithic Revolution
Provide a format for your historians to explore the Neolithic Revolution using this writing exercise. Three display questions prompt scholars to reflect on how the revolution was a turning point in human history, its impact on gender...
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INVESTIGATING NONTRADITIONAL OCCUPATIONS
Students identify careers that are nontraditional for their gender. In 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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LIFE DOESN’T FRIGHTEN ME
Young scholars 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...
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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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Gender Equity: Gender Role Assignment
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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What Influences Our Perception of Gender Roles?
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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Be the Kiwi: Gender Roles
Young scholars take a look at gender roles in New Zealand. In this global issues lesson plan, students analyze statistics that reveal the divide between men and women employees in the country.
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Are Our Classroom Materials Gender Biased?
Students explore equality by analyzing their own classroom belongings. In this gender bias lesson, students investigate their classroom and identify objects as either male or female biased. Students collaborate while exploring the idea...
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Career Stereotyping
Students learn about gender biases. In this careers lesson, students list possible careers with the gender associated with them. Students discuss gender biases and complete an activity where they find pictures in magazines that depict...
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Infusing Equity by Gender into the Classroom
Learners discover the biases between the two genders by comparing males and females in different species. In this gender identity lesson plan, students research National Geographic Magazine and view videos demonstrating the differences...
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Equitable Careers
Pupils explore career options. In this careers lesson, students list several careers and then categorize them as traditional female careers, traditional male careers, nontraditional female careers, and nontraditional male careers. Pupils...
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Native American Gender Roles in Maryland: A Second Look
In this primary source analysis worksheet, learners examine Native American history to complete the graphic organizer about gender roles in Native American societies.
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Depicting Women and Class in a Global Society
Students analyze the evolution of women's work from the 19th century to present day and create artwork depicting women. In this women's roles activity, students compare and contrast the use of space and color in the two paintings...
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Women's Roles in Post World War II
Students discuss the role of women before, during, and after World War II. In this equality lesson, students plan how to make the workforce more equal among men and women after World War II. They research World War II and its effects on...
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Gender Shouldn't Limit You
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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Men and Women
Students explore gender roles and expectations of women in society. In this gender roles lesson plan, students read the play Much Ado About Nothing and give examples of imagery in the play that express men's expectation of women.
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Jobs and Skills in my Home Worksheet
In this household jobs worksheet, students gather information on jobs in the home and the skills necessary to accomplish those jobs. They also choose a specific topic to research.
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Gender Roles Business Case Studies
In this grammar instructional activity, students, in pairs, discuss the best solution to seven scenarios ranging from managing a warehouse, working with colleagues and the best applicant for a job.
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Native American Gender Roles in Maryland
Learners compare conditions of women in America and other lands (including colonists), and discover that women's status in their community was directly related to social hierarchy, religious culture, and natural environment in which they...
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Women in India: Tradition vs. Modernity
High schoolers explore cultural aspects such as gender roles and their impact on Indian culture and compare and contrast issues associated with those roles in America through literature.
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Women in Science
Learners study the roles that women have played in science throughout history. They work in small groups while visiting the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
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The Plight of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Revolution in England and Wales
Students read about, discuss, and answer questions regarding the various jobs women performed in the early Industrial Revolution in England and Wales.
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Women Characters and Readers
Students participate in a guided reading of Chapter IX in Harriet Beecher Stow's, Uncle Tom's Cabin. They research the topic of gender and present it to the class.
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Lesson Plan on Australian Aborigines
Fourth graders investigate the nomadic lifestyle of the Aborigines both before and after the arrival fo the Europeans. They identify the roles of men and women, languages and number of tribes. They act out skits based on the lesson.