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CommonLit

Common Lit: Themes: Prejudice/discrimination: What Are the Effects of Prejudice?

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "What are the effects of prejudice?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Themes: Prejudice & Discrimination: How Does Prejudice Emerge?

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "How does prejudice emerge?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration required...
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Other

Simply Psychology: Prejudice and Discrimination

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what prejudice and discrimination are, with examples, and the differences between them. Also looks at how social norms may influence behavior, causing an increase in the level of prejudice.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Chapter 5: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the concepts and vocabulary terms related to stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Includes a list of terms and definitions, and a variety of activities including flashcards, a spelling activity, a quiz, and games.
Interactive
Media Smarts

Media Awareness Network: Allies and Aliens: A Mission in Critical Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive module for Grades 7 and 8 is designed to increase students' ability to recognize bias, prejudice, and hate propaganda on the Internet and in other media. Includes an extensive teacher's guide.
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Other

An Exploration of Historic Prejudice: The Chinese

For Students 9th - 10th
The Chinese began coming to British Columbia in the mid-1800's. They suffered terrible abuse during their voyages to get there and much discrimination afterwards, often forced to work in dangerous conditions. Many of them sought gold...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Prejudice & Respect

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of activities and discussion questions teaching students to treat people the way they would want to be treated. Includes strategies on for standing up for people who are being treated with prejudice.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Prejudice & Respect

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of Spanish language activities and discussion questions teaching students to treat people the way they would want to be treated. Includes strategies on for standing up for people who are being treated with prejudice.
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Milwaukee College Prep

African American History: North and South, Slave and Free

For Students 7th - 9th
An overview of the status and experiences of African Americans in the mid-1800s, both free and enslaved. Includes references to Frederick Douglass and his efforts to enlighten people about the discrimination and prejudice faced by...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Racism

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of the term "racism" and how it impacted the rise of Nazism and World War II.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Police Reform

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson featuring videos from FRONTLINE: Policing the Police. Using Newark, NJ, as an example, students gather evidence of discriminatory policing practices, examine the perspectives of police and community, and learn about changes...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Discrimination

For Students 9th - 10th
An encyclopedic definition of discrimination, an examination of the many different types, and a discussion of different theories.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Prejudice

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Children need to learn early to respect other people's difference and not to be prejudiced. Through the discussion questions, writing prompts, and activity ideas presented at this website, students learn "What's wrong with being...
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Other

Anti Discrimination Committee: What Teachers Can Do

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site lists ways to combat bias and stereotypes of Arabs and Arab Americans in the curricula or with students of all ages. Includes a brief bibliography of suggested works on multicultural education.
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Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Talk It Over

For Students 9th - 10th
A research-led resource designed to support educators in facilitating empathetic, honest, and evidence-based conversations on online hate and how to tackle it with secondary aged pupils. Talk it over includes a slide presentation with...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1840: Irish and German Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
Famine and political revolution in Europe led millions of Irish and German citizens to immigrate to America in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Other

Sociology Guide: Difference Between Prejudice and Discrimination

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what prejudice and discrimination are and the differences between them.
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Other

Exploring Definitions: Discrimination, Racism & Sexism

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A challenging exercise to help students define prejudice, discrimination, racism, sexism, and homophobia in their own words.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Close Reading Exemplar: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

For Teachers 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn about the life of Frederick Douglass, his personal experience of the slave system, and the discrimination and prejudice he faced from those around him. This intensive lesson exemplar...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Yellow Line Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Yellow Line by Sylvia Olsen is a novel about racial prejudice in a small town, where whites and natives do not mix. When Vince's friend Sherry starts to date Steve, who is native, Vince tries to break them up. But when he finds himself...
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PBS

Pbs: Arab Americans: In the Aftermath of the Terrorist Attacks on the u.s.

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Enlightening students can sometimes be difficult, and this lesson tries to make it easier. In this lesson students will be asked about Arab Americans and about issues such as stereotyping.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Two Towns of Jasper (Classroom Resources on Racism)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Classroom resources that examine the history and intent of hate groups in the United States and the notorious race-motivated murder committed in Jasper, Texas, by three white supremacists. Resources take students through a number of...
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Oakland Museum of California

Gold Rush: Silver and Gold: Chinese Man

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents information about the Chinese miners who came to California during the gold rush period of American history and faced discrimination and hostility.
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Other

Kootenay: An Exploration of Prejudice Sikhs (And Other Groups)

For Students 9th - 10th
The Sikh were one group who came to British Columbia to work on the railway, and suffered much discrimination from Victorian settlers. This page offers a brief synopsis about this as part of a larger exhibition on prejudice.

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