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LIFE DOESN’T FRIGHTEN ME

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students 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...
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Infusing Equity by Gender Into the Classroom: A Handbook of Classroom Practices

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners 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

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze and compare personal and societal perception of gender roles.  In this gender roles instructional activity, students record their personal point of view on various tasks such as doing dishes or car...
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What Influences Our Perception of Gender Roles?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research gender equity and the media.  In this gender equity lesson plan, students evaluate the influence of various media on both individuals and society.  Students discuss examples of media that portray gender roles...
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Be the Kiwi: Gender Roles

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students take a look at gender roles in New Zealand. In this global issues lesson, 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?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore equality by analyzing their own classroom belongings. In this gender bias instructional activity, students investigate their classroom and identify objects as either male or female biased. Students collaborate while...
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Career Stereotyping

For Teachers K - 3rd
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...
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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.  In this gender identity lesson, students research National Geographic Magazine and view videos demonstrating the differences...
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Equitable Careers

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students 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....
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Native American Gender Roles in Maryland: A Second Look

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, young scholars 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

For Teachers 7th - 9th
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 lesson, students compare and contrast the use of space and color in the two paintings depicting...
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Women's Roles in Post World War II

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the role of women before, during, and after World War II. In this equality instructional activity, students plan how to make the workforce more equal among men and women after World War II. They research World War II and...
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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 lesson, students debate on the roles of the genders, and if they ever intertwine.  
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Men and Women

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explore gender roles and expectations of women in society. In this gender roles lesson, 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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, 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

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students 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

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners 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

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students 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

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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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Lesson Plan on Australian Aborigines

For Teachers 4th
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.
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Learning Social Roles: Boys and Girls

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write and share short pieces about how their gender identities were affected through childhood messages about what it meant to be a boy or a girl. This activity can be used to introduce a discussion on gender issues.
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Gender Equity in Fairy Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore language arts by researching fairy tale stereotypes. In this gender roles lesson, students read the stories Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, and Snow White with their class. Students analyze the female characters...
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Women's Roles: Then and Now

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate women's roles during the frontier era in what is today's West Virginia. In this US history lesson, 4th graders discuss similarities and differences of women's roles in the past with what women's roles...