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Fairy Tales

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Class groups examine fairy tales from a feminist and a Marxist perspective, identifying how these tales present gender roles and class/power systems. The groups then script and perform their own tale that uses one of these lenses.
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Japanese Women - ESL Style

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read two articles discussing traditional and modern gender roles in Japan. Students complete a worksheet and participate in a discussion about the articles, clarifying some of their own opinions about gender roles.
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Infusing Equity by Gender into the Classroom

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify gender stereotypes in magazine advertisements. In this gender bias lesson plan, students discuss the problems of gender bias in advertising and develop an understanding of the way advertisements work.
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Female Poets Speak For Themselves

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Student examine selected works of twentieth-century female poets that speak to the stereotypes about women inherent in Western culture. Individually, students explore these stereotypes and their experience with them. Students create a...
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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 are in...
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Snowboarding Women Making History: Winter Sports, Gender Roles in Sports, Biographies

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students will explore biographical Web pages about women who are competing in snowboarding. They will compare and contrast the experiences of these women, and design interview questions to be submitted via email.
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Women Characters and Readers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a guided reading of Chapter IX in Harriet Beecher Stow's, Uncle Tom's Cabin. They research the topic of gender and present it to the class.
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A Fine Feathered Flock

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners role play different situations. In this respect lesson, students read Mr. Lincoln's Way, identify the story elements and answer comprehension questions. Learners discuss how they can always treat others with respect and role...
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Individual Research

For Teachers 7th Standards
Class members choose an ad they want to analyze for their performance task. They then read specific text based on the ad they chose. The instructor guides learners through a Model Research Synthesis document in which they try to...
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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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Social Studies, Gender and the Blues

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
This lesson shows how the blues can be used to enable students to explore gender divisions in the United States, both in the past and the present. Most blues songs are about the relationships between men and women, as are many songs in...
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Princesses Don't Have to be Passive

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students rewrite a fairy tales to eliminate any gender bias that occurs in the original fairy tale. In this gender bias lesson plan, students also discuss how gender bias effects self esteem, relationships, and behaviors.
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Surviving the Social Jungle

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore and recognize social structures. In this social standards lesson, students discuss social problems and cliques. Students role play and search for bible verses that reflect how God wants them to handle social situations....
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Gender and Media Introduction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze media clips and discover how the media helps us form ideas about men and women and their roles in society. They discover some of their own preconceptions about these roles and answer questions.
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Gender and Media #3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify media messages about gender and body image. They discuss how they can change these messages. They create their own media message about gender and body image.
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DETERMINING THE EXISTENCE OF GENDER BIAS IN DAILY TASKS

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners identify task assignments by gender.
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Words in the News First Woman Leads Baltimore Orchestra

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete vocabulary activities including worksheets in order to read an online article. They discuss typical male and female roles in a variety of situations.
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The Role Of Japanese Women

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students consider the role of women in upper-class Japanese society through the reading of a folktale and the study of Japanese art images. The lesson emphasizes small, cooperative learning groups.
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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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Dolls Are Us

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Representation matters! A lesson examines the looks of dolls and discusses whether the design is inclusive or not. Scholars create a paper doll representing a characteristic about themselves or highlights another diverse quality....
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Women in Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Imagine linking poetry to technology! Thirty-three lessons comprise a 6-week "Women in Poetry" unit for high schoolers. Class members research women poets, learn how to respond electronically to discussions, write their poems, create web...
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TV TELLS IT ALL

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners identify the influence of television on gender roles and talk about how they are changing.
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Exploring Women's History

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read and analyze Jessie Benton Fremont's travelogue of her trip out west in 1849 to identify the gender roles, social attitudes and class distinctions of the time. They then adapt the the travelogue into a film script.
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How to Combat Harassment and Discrimination

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students discuss harassment and discrimination. In this harassment lesson, students define the terms and discuss ways to report harassment. They listen to stories and role play how they would act in that situation. 

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