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Countering Homophobia: Feelings, Tolerance, Sexuality, Stereotypes
Students explore and discuss name-calling, feelings and myths relating to homosexuality through labeling feelings and participating in a game.
Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment
Relationships and Sexuality
Adolescence is a tumultuous time for the learners in your class. Guide them through the rocky world of friendships, risks, personal health, and emotional turmoil with a set of lessons about teenager relationships and sexuality.
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Stories of Painkiller Addiction: Myth or Fact
Are opioids the most abused drug after marijuana? How hard is it for young people to obtain painkillers without a prescription? Middle and high schoolers explore the growing epidemic of opioid addiction with a lesson that prompts them to...
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When Students Don't Clique
Students explore the roles of cliques in schools and ways in which schools can foster tolerance among diverse groups by reading and discussing "Alma Maters: Two Words Behind the Massacre."
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Looks Like Respect, Sounds Like Respect, Feels Like
Students explore philanthropy through art. In this service learning lesson, students discuss the diversity in their community and use their senses to create tolerance posters.
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Buddhism And The Dalai Lama
Students examine Buddhism and the role of the Dalai Lama. In this world religions lesson, students research the history and teachings of the Dalai Lama. Students discuss how to apply the Dalai Lama's teaching to teen dilemmas.
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They're more evolved that way
Students explore the notion of local evolution, or genetic selectivity among different continent-based human populations. They consider specific examples of local evolution, such as lactose tolerance, skin color, and cognitive capacity,...
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Symbol Minds
Students examine the fears and frustrations of citizens in the tolerant Muslim nation of Indonesia during the holy month of Ramadan. They explore the symbols used in various world religions and create 3-dimensional displays for a class.
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Perceptions - Difference
Students explore different perceptions and differences between people. They incorporate the themes of stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination. Students comprehend that people have different perceptions of the same phenomenon. They...
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An Approach To Teaching Religious Tolerance
High schoolers identify First Amendment rights of Freedom of Religion. They identify the colonies which were settled by people escaping religious persecution. They study the beliefs of the five major religions in the US.
Shell Education
Althea Gibson
What would it like to be the first person to achieve something? Read about Althea Gibson, the first black tennis player to win a Grand Slam title, to win at Wimbledon, and more. Class members respond to questions to demonstrate...
Messenger Education
Design Challenge: How to Keep Gelatin from Melting
The inside of the spacecraft Messenger, which explores Mercury, will experience temperatures from 32 to 91 degrees Fahrenheit. In the final installment of a series of four space-related activities, groups spend time discussing and...
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Tolerance: Gender Issues
Learners explore why some professions have been gender-dominant in the past. In this lesson, 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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Hamlet's Soliloquy
For this literature worksheet, students use Hamlet's soliloquy for a series of activities. Students match quotes with modern interpretations. Students reflect on and relate to Hamlet's feelings. They also give advice to Hamlet.
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A Case Study: My Friend Brian
Eighth graders study a case study in which a Korean student, Brian, is beaten and accused of being a homosexual.
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Where the Sidewalk Transcends
Young scholars use titles of Shel Silverstein poems to generate their own poetry for Students. Each student then compares his or her poem to the Shel Silverstein poem of the same title.
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Beliefs/Teachings of Islam
Students listen to a guest speaker lecture on the beliefs of Islam while taking down notes and complete a KWL chart in their notebook. They then discuss in pairs the differences and similarities they note etween Islam and their own...
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Looks Like Respect, Sounds Like Respect, Feels Like
Students examine philanthropy through art using their senses. In this philanthropy lesson, students investigate what respect looks like, sounds like and feels like using their senses. They talk about diversity and tolerance before...
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My 3 Day Lesson on Courage
Second graders focus on what having courage means. They listen to a story about the Holocaust, then create posters which reflect courage, tolerance and acceptance.
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Aztec and Mayan Mythology
Sixth graders write myths to show tolerance in creation. They read from both the Aztec and Mayan eras and develop an understanding of the similarities and differences of these two closely related cultures. They track the travels of...
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
What Ben Read
Just what did Ben Franklin read? By juxtaposing Ben Franklin’s reading material as a young man with an analysis of his developed ideas, learners gain the opportunity to see how the influences of his youthful reading played out. Roman,...
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Confronting the -Isms
Students keep "Mindwatch" diaries to chart their own prejudices and stereotypes. In this social justice lesson plan, students monitor their own reactions to people who are different from themselves. Students identify and discuss patterns...
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Model Parliaments: Creating a Real Senate
Students discover how the Canadian Parliamentary works and how to tolerate other people's point of view by participating in a model Parliament.
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The Lavender Llama
Students explore friendship, discrimination, prejudice and tolerance.