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You Do Judge a Book by Its Cover

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners view several magazine pictures of different types of people and answer questions that lead to a realization of how stereotyping occurs.
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Race, Culture, And Identity in Daughter From Danang (Part 2)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine cultural identity. They watch and discuss the second half of the PBS documentary, 'Daughter From Danang,' and write an essay addressing ethnic and cultural identity and how a film would portray their own cultural identity.
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Timely Tolerance

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders work together to focus on an oppressed group of society. Using the information they gather, they create a museum exhibit to educate their community on the group. They present their PowerPoint presentation to the class to...
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Who Participates? Identifying Diversity

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students listen to sound bite of producer/director Nick Giannopoulos, and discuss issue of stereotypical portrayals of cultural groups presented in the media. Students then use questionnaires and view popular television shows to observe...
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Free Speech Comes At a Price

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use communicative activity strategy, Go, Ask and Tell, or more traditional whole text comprehension activity to read, discuss and explore issues in article, Free Speech Comes at a Price, by Hugh Mackay.
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Gazing Into the Faces of AIDS

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider whether or not there are generalizations that can be made about people who are infected with H.I.V. or who have the AIDS virus. They create public service ad campaigns to educate the public and consider other ways to...
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Guidelines for Teaching the Holocaust

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders view a presentation about the importance of the Holocaust. In groups, they complete a workshop in which they discover the reasons and actions behind the event. They share their feelings about the material and stereotypes...
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Black Actors in American Cinema

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine the contributions of a few African American actors. After watching different films, they work together to recreate the film and the struggles faced by the actors. In groups, they compare and contrast the acting...
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Understanding Ethnic Labels and Puerto Rican Identity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers brainstorm a list of stereotypes associated with the Hispanic or Latin culture. In groups, they use the internet to research issues of importance to the Puerto Rican community. They focus on the cultures that speak...
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Fast Facts

For Students 4th - 6th
In this reviewing social studies facts learning exercise, students observe facts in the columns labeled New England, the Middle Colonies, and Southern area of the United States, categorize using one fact from each column, and write...
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Valentine Candy Count

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars analyze a bag of Valentine candy to create a graph. In this graphing lesson, students make predictions, sort by color, record data and make a graph. Young scholars discuss results and make generalizations. Students...
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Diversity

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students work in groups to research and prepare an oral report about a region.  In this regions lesson, students find out about the geography, population, state capitals, and landmarks.  Students assign attributes to the people...
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Diversity Geography

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research another country and its people.  In this diversity lesson, students work in groups to research an assigned country and develop a short oral report.  Students use diversity beans to represent the people of...
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Culture and Obesity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore cultural perceptions regarding obesity. In this personal health lesson, students read case scenarios about 3 women and their health perceptions. Students discuss the women and the stereotypes associated with the women...
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Gender Roles

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore psychology by answering gender study questions. In this sexuality lesson, students discuss the stereotypes often referred to men and woman and what the truth is about their characteristics and abilities. Students...
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Strategies to Overcome Gender Bias in the Machine Shop: Knurling

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students participate in putting a straight knurl on a piece of steel.
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WHEN JOHNNY CAME MARCHING HOME

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the roles of men and women throughout history.
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Blood Brothers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the blood characteristics of a number of distinct racial/ethnic groups. They build skills in observation, information gathering and processing. Students experiences strongly reflect the nature and intent of the current...
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Outside the In-Group

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students pretend they are the person who is kept out of a group. As a class, they examine the behaviors of each person in a group situation and discuss how the role-play made them feel. They examine situations in which they kept...
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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, young scholars explore these stereotypes and their experience with them. Students...
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Jack / Kate and the BeanStalk

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Students compare/contrast "Jack and the Beanstalk," by Steven Kellogg to "Kate and the Beanstalk," by Mary Pope Osborne. They discuss their character traits, stereotypes and "Bend Stereotypes" by modeling and demonstrating them within a...
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Gandhi's Alternate View of Women: Changing the Face of Modern Media & Advertising

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders analyze the violence of media and advertising on women, as well as Gandhi's views of women. In this women and media lesson, 11th graders Killing Us Softly and Tough Guise as an analysis of media and advertising and their...
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We and Thee

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine class structure. In this diversity education lesson, students discuss stereotypes within their school as an introduction to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. After high schoolers have read the play and discussed...
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Not the Stereotypical Immigrant?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars complete a Venn diagram comparing the stereotypes of modern African immigrants to those of other major immigrant groups in the U.S. They write an essay on their observations.

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