Teaching Tolerance
Thanksgiving Mourning
Two primary sources, a speech, and an article provide tweens and teens with different perspectives of the American Thanksgiving holiday. After analyzing Wamsutta James' suppressed speech and Jacqueline Keeler's article, class members use...
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Legislative Trends and Power Sharing Among Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1977–2012
Bilingual education, voting rights, and Congressional redistricting come up often in the news. Explore these topics from another view—the perspectives of Hispanic members of Congress. Activities include an article with comprehension and...
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Finding My Hat
Sixth graders explore the Korean culture through the book, Finding My Hat. They read and discuss the book in literature circles and write in response journals after each chapter. Comparing the main character to themselves, they note the...
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Foreign Language: Bienvenidos
Students review family vocabulary and relations with the Bienvenidos CDs. They watch, listen to, participate in, answer questions, and compose letters during the activity. Finally, they apply cultural differences to their own situations.
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We and Thee
Students examine class structure. For this diversity education lesson, students discuss stereotypes within their school as an introduction to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. After students have read the play and discussed social class...
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Acceptance Through Patchwork
Students are asked to look at differences in people and accept those differences but to examine that people are more alike than different. The instructional activity has the central focus of investigating diversity.
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Language Spoken in Mexico
Third graders explore how to say numbers and words in Spanish. They match Spanish words to the translated English words. They recognze words that are similar in the Spanish and English language.
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Celebrating Connections
Third graders examine religious traditions and celebrations. In this Social Studies lesson, 3rd graders compare and contrast different religions. Students research a specific religion and prepare a presentation for the class.
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Multicultural Issues and the Law: Gender and Race Based Schooling
Young scholars examine the problems associated with gender based and race based education. In groups, they research the history of education and the laws that have changed education and impacted lives. They brainstorm a list of the...
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Which team?
Students identify the many groups to which they belong and consider how groups are formed. They explore group dynamics and how group rules influence individual choice and develop strategies that might influence their groups.
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The Last Great Race
Third graders identify and discover why the Iditarod race is done each year. They explore the historical significance of the Iditarod. Students also use web sites to research related topics, i.e. diseases (diptheria), geography of...
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Chinese Inventions
Students identify inventions as coming from China. For this Chinese inventions lesson, students are given a list of common items such as cast iron, a wheelbarrow, and the decimal system, then conduct research to identify where they were...
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Looking Through Lenses
Students explore the various societal and cultural "lenses" which color their perspectives and life experiences by reading the short story "What Means Switch" by Gish Jen. They discuss how the cultural ideas and beliefs affect the...
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Good Heavens
Learners look at the history of science to identify some of the scientific ideas that different cultures have contributed to science throughout history. They describe using examples ideas developed by different cultures to explain the...
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Utah's American Indian Tribes Today
Seventh graders examine Utah's American Indian tribes and how they add to the diversity of cultures in Utah today.
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VH1 Fan Club
Students connect the diversity of American culture to the music of Dave Matthews Band and then create lyrics that emphasize how diversity pertains to their own life.
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Foreign Student Exchange Project - French Website
Ninth graders choose a cultural topic to research and publish on their website. They reflect upon the reasons they chose to study the French language and select a topic that influenced their choice.
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Myth of the Western Man
Students identify ways in which history and culture influence identity. They make a time-line and research dates to identify their significance, as well as, create a self portrait pictorially or verbally, that explores the complexity of...
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Confronting World Stereotypes
Students examine pervasive worldwide stereotypes through role play. They are placed in the role of someone from a different ethnic background. After interacting with groups of students in their new role, stereotyped students write a...
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Extracting Meaning From What We See
Students recognize that all cultures have the same needs that they try to satisfy in ways that their predecessors found effective in their particular environments. Students discover how and why cultures change their customs.
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Reading Multicultural Literature
Students read several fictional pieces which examine issues of urbanization and rural cultures. They discuss how the place a person lives affects the kind of person they become.
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African Safari
Sixth graders gain an appreciation for the different cultures that inhabit the Earth by focusing on the people of Africa
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Food and Languages of the World
Students examine Japanese culture. In this multicultural lesson, students taste rice crackers and create Japanese fans from paper and paint.
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Coming to America
Young scholars examine the various cultures of the immigrants who came to America. Using the internet, they research various ethnic and cultural groups within the United States. They identify the reasons why people immigrated to the...