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CAN WE SWITCH GENDERS OF STORY CHARACTERS?
Analyze characters and stories to identify stereotyping. Learners will examine the concept of character gender to evaluate bias in classroom story books. They are asked to read a story or play and change the gender of the character to...
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Exploring Gender Bias in the Workplace
Pupils investigate gender bias in the work place. In this secondary mathematics lesson, students gather research on the current statistics about a profession which focuses on the female//male ratios and the pay scale of the females...
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The Gingerbread Person
Young scholars discuss gender bias and stereotyping. For this social science lesson, students read the book "The Gingerbread Boy" and discuss why it is a boy. Young scholars then write their own story changing it to a gingerbread girl...
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INFUSING EQUITY BY GENDER INTO THE CLASSROOM:A Handbook of Classroom Practices
Students examine how gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination impacts their lives. Students examine behaviors they believe are acceptable for males and females and will compose an essay based on their findings.
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GENDER BIASED WORD PROBLEMS
Students identify word problems that show stereotyping and calculate the percentages.
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COUNTERACTING MEDIA STEREOTYPING
Students explore the effects of gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination.
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Strategies to Overcome Gender Bias in the Machine Shop: Knurling
Students participate in putting a straight knurl on a piece of steel.
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Infusing Equity by Gender into the Classroom
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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WHAT INFLUENCES OUR PERCEPTION OF GENDER ROLES?
Students talk about the influence of media on gender equity perception.
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DETERMINING THE EXISTENCE OF GENDER BIAS IN DAILY TASKS
Learners identify task assignments by gender.
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GENDER STEREOTYPES AND ADVERTISEMENTS
Learners identify gender stereotypes in advertisements.
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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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Introduction to Sexism
Students develop an understanding of sexism, its effects, and the ways in which messages in society (in media, texts, schools, families, et cetera) reinforce stereotypical beliefs.
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Career Stereotyping
Students identify differences and similarities in female and male careers. They look through magazines and catalogs to look for traditional roles being filled in non-traditional ways. They cut the pictures out and make a collage.
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IS MY SCHOOL EQUITABLE?
Students evaluate student handbooks and determine if it is gender bias.
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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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PRINCESSES DON'T HAVE TO BE PASSIVE
Students learn the effects of stereotyping and discrimination.
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Promoting Tolerance
Students create multimedia presentations on stereotyping. In this stereotyping lesson plan, students have discussions on different kinds of stereotyping, how it makes people feel, and create a multimedia presentation on it.
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The Gingerbread Person
Learners think about what it means to be intelligent and fast (able to run)/athletic. After listening to the story, 'The Gingerbread Boy,' students write their own stories about a gingerbread girl and a female fox.
