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Student Dress Codes: What's Fair?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
The controversy over school dress codes continues. The debate involves questions like, why is there a policy? Who sets the policy? Who enforces the policy? What is a fair policy? Tweens and teens have an opportunity to engage in the...
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Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill: The Power of Symbols

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
How important are symbols and symbolic gestures in society? Middle schoolers have an opportunity to analyze the importance of symbols on American currency with a lesson that investigates the controversies surrounding redesigning the $5,...
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"The Story of an Hour" Lesson 1: Teacher's Guide and Notes

For Teachers 8th Standards
Attitudes toward women have changed radically in the last hundred years. The first lesson in a six-part unit that uses Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour" as an anchor text begins with a shared reading of "The Role of Women...
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Retell the Story

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students identify bias in books. In this character education lesson, students read a text and discuss any gender or racial bias which may be present. Students retell and rewrite the story in a fair way.
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Fort Wayne's Industrial Girls

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore what life was like for Fort Wayne's "industrial girls." In this industrialization instructional activity, 8th graders discuss the conditions that the Indiana factory girls worked in as well as their backgrounds....
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Empowered Barbie

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students access prior knowledge of vocabulary on feminism and psychoanalytic theory, and gender schema.  In this Empowered Barbie instructional activity, students recreate a Barbie doll.  Students write a reflection on how they...
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Japanese Culture

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the differences in the way genders have been treated in the same society over the course of a nation's history.  In this World History lesson, 9th graders study the factors that have caused changes in...
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Population Policy-Progress Since Cairo

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars survey the evolution of population policies. They assess the presence of gender-bias in development statistics. They evaluate the nexus of women, development, and population policy.
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Introduction to Sexism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers 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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Bursting Stereotypes

For Teachers 9th
Balloons take on the role of stereotypes in an activity that asks high school freshman to generate a list of different adjectives that are frequently used to describe men and women. Then then attach a stereotypical label to a balloon and...
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Lorna Simpson: Gathered

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lorna Simpson is a photographer who has put together a collection of photos from the 1950s in order to challenge the idea that primary source documents are objective in their portrayal of history. Learners are introduced to Ms. Simpson's...
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How To Do an AP Euro DBQ

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Are your AP classes struggling with Document Based Questions? Nip their problems in the bud with this clear and comprehensive presentation, which compares a "dazzling DBQ" to a hamburger, outlining all of the layers therein....
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Tolerance: Gender Issues

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore why some professions have been gender-dominant in the past. In this lesson plan, students identify some professions that have typically had one specific gender employed in the past, then research that job to see when it...
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Anne Frank: Pictures - First Impressions

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify personal biases and formulate a plan to 'make a difference. They, hopefully, increase their sensitivity to diversity. Groups of students view photographs of different people, and share their first impressions.
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The Gingerbread Person

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students 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.
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THOSE ANCIENT GREEKS

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research Athens and Sparta and based on their research they are to make a visual aid showing their findings.
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IS THE BRADY BUNCH BIASED?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students analyze the Brady Bunch for signs of stereotypes.
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Gender Equity in the Classroom

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students review employment statistics and wages over the past 20 years. They examine the Federal Work Force Laws. They apply formulas to find the rate of change in the minimum wage.
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GENDER EQUITY IN FAIRY TALES

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify stereotyping in fairy tales.
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STRATEGIES FOR A SUCCESSFUL WORLD

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how to overcome stereotypes and gender bias.
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Is Olympic Coverage Sexist?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Women Olympians have come a long way since 1900 when 22 women competed for the first time. News coverage of the Olympics has also changed dramatically. What has been slow to change, however, is the language used in the coverage of female...
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What Will I Be?

For Teachers 3rd
Third gradersl examine personality characteristics that are necessary for careers. They identify characteristics necessary for any type of occupation and discuss gender bias. They write a job description for an occupation of their choosing.
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From Basketball Court to Supreme Court

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss scenarios about unfairness and retaliation in school sports. They read about a recent Supreme Court ruling about Title IX, and research, conduct polls and write articles about public opinions on gender issues in sports.
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OBSERVING THE ROLES OF MALES AND FEMALES IN THE NURTURING OF THE YOUNG THROUGHOUT THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Learners watch animal videos to identify and compare the male/female roles of different species of animals. They draw conclusions and compare those roles to those of humans. They discuss how the human male/female roles have changed...

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