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Respect for All Project

Let's Get Real Curriculum Guide

For Teachers 5th - 9th
"Let's Get Real," a documentary about cyberbullying, is the cornerstone of a curriculum guide intended to help instructors design an anti-bullying unit for middle school classes. Packet with suggestions for how plan the unit, for...
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Facing History and Ourselves

Life for German Youth in the 1930s: Education, Propaganda, Conformity, and Obedience

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The German youth faced an onslaught of propaganda when they went to school, thanks to the Nazi regime led by Hitler during World War II. Pupils relate their education experiences to German youth by analyzing primary source readings,...
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Facing History and Ourselves

Transcending Single Stories

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The focus of the second lesson in the Standing Up for Democracy unit is on the power of assumptions based on a single experience or point of view. Class members begin by journaling about assumptions others make about their identity based...
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Facing History and Ourselves

The Challenge of Confirmation Bias

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Confirmation bias makes it difficult to overcome our preconceived notions of others. That's the big idea in a activity that teaches learners strategies to recognize and question their biases.
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UNICEF

Self and Interpersonal Relationships Theme Unit

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
A key goal of social-emotional learning is to help young people develop healthy attitudes towards themselves and others. A 173-page curriculum guide provides  step-by-step lessons that are richly detailed, carefully scaffolded, and...
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Study Guide
Penguin Books

Teacher's Guide: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
An 11-page teacher's guide that focuses on Delia Owens' bestseller Where the Crawdads Sing is packed with discussion questions and activities. Text-dependent questions, activities, and writing prompts are also included. It's a valuable...
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C3 Teachers

Murder of Emmett Till: Is It Ever Too Late for Justice?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The murder of Emmett Till is the focus of a guided inquiry that asks scholars to research the events, the trial, recent attempts to reopen the case and the effect of the murder on people today.
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Curated OER

News Watch

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine newspaper articles that deal with human rights issues, prejudice, ethnic wars, antisemitism, racism, and inequality.
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Curated OER

Discussing Hatred Toward Immigrants And Ways To Reduce It

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners discuss hatred toward immigrants, and what kinds of behaviors constitute prejudice, explore attitudes toward people from other places, and analyze where these attitudes come from, and discuss ways to avoid and reduce prejudice...
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Curated OER

Everything You Know Is Wrong 1: Us and Them

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students examine assumptions that can lead to errors of reasoning. They explore techniques for recognizing and resisting these assumptions. Students examine their own prejudices and prejudices that others might have about them.
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Curated OER

Borders Within: Social Interaction on the Border

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students analyze social interaction, racism, and prejudice on the border through exploration of their own experiences.
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Curated OER

Religious Symbols

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research an overview of several world religions. They include explanations of common generalities, misunderstandings, and prejudices attached to those religions. Students gain knowledge of world religions through multiple...
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Curated OER

Human Rights

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars explore the importance of laws and the need to speak up against wrong doing and how to bring change in society and in the law. They discuss the needs and concerns of others. Students explore the concept of bias and...
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Curated OER

Test Yourself for Hidden Bias

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine their own hidden bias. In this diversity instructional activity, students link to an Internet website to test their own stereotypes and prejudices. Students discuss how bias is perpetuated in society and determine what...
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Curated OER

The Struggle Against Segregation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use vocabulary related to the history of segregation in the United States. They study about the history of segregation in America and recognize the challenges and prejudice that many African Americans faced in the 1950s....
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Curated OER

PERCEIVINGT A CULTURE THROUGH ITS LITERATURE

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Studentsexamine cultural values in literature, identify the cultural assumptions, prejudices, and purposes of authors and translators, use historical perspective to determine if the values and lifestyle depicted apply to contemporary...
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Curated OER

Sixteenth Street: Civil Rights at the Crossroads

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the Civil Rights movement constructing definitions of discrimination, prejudice and racism. They use varied media to study the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, write a newspaper and complete a mock trial.
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Curated OER

Famous African Americans Mini-book

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students develop understanding of prejudice as they study famous African Americans.  In this African American lesson, students become familiar with various African Americans and the obstacles they faced and overcame. Students put...
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Curated OER

Segregation

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners consider the implications of prejudice. In this segregation lesson, students experience a simulation that has school staff favoring learners with blue eyes. Students discuss the simulation experience, watch "The Eye of the...
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PBS

Being Heard

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Examine the work of contemporary authors who use their writing to express opinions about the struggle against prejudice and oppression in our society. A short lesson on the Harlem Renaissance introduces learners to the most prominent...
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Curated OER

Finding Our Bonds: King Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. For this service learning lesson, students experience literature and participate in a simulation that examines discrimination, prejudice, and stereotypes.
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Activity
Novelinks

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Concept/Vocab Analysis

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Considering using Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry for book circles or whole-class study? First time teachers, and those who have used the text before, will find some interesting tidbits in this overview.
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Curated OER

Dangers of Labeling and Stereotyping

For Teachers 11th - 12th
The content of this lesson is intended for a mature group. Participants imagine that they must decide which eight of fourteen people on a doomed cruise ship will be allowed to board the only life boat and survive. A list of passengers...
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Learning to Give

The Beginning of the Storm

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Introduce readers to Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry with a lesson that sets the context for the novel. Class members research the bigotry in Mississippi during the Great Depression and identify examples in the story of how...

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