Infusing Equity By Gender Into the Classroom

Second graders discuss why classrooms have helpers to complete everyday tasks. In groups, they participate in a role-play activity in which they complete the assigned tasks. To end the lesson, they complete a worksheet in which they...

Students are quizzed by the counselor as a class asking them to match jobs with career paths. They discuss and analyze why there are so many different types of work out in the world. Puppets illustrate for the students various career...

First graders study career opportunities in their local community. In this career exploration activity, 1st graders answer 'Who Am I?' questions and study career path posters. Students list the skills they've learned at school and work...

Students explore careers. In this life goals lesson plan, students examine several career paths as they listen to puppets present different types of jobs and discuss the importance of each of the jobs.

Students identify career areas that are not traditional for their gender.

Students discover stereotypes in modern society.  In this gender role lesson, students create a display of "school workers" and identify  jobs as either male or female.  The students discuss their choices and overcome...

Students examine and discuss different careers. They use magazines and newspapers to find pictures of a career of interest to them. They create a career collage for a bulletin board display.

Teach young learners that they can have any job they want, no matter their gender! An elementary lesson emphasizes that while some jobs may be more closely associated with men or with women, people of either gender can complete...

Learners examine non-traditional careers by gender.  In this guidance lesson, students discover career options are not limited by gender.  Learners identify a career of interest to them and illustrate themselves.

Pupils make a collage of an assigned career. They present their collage to the rest of the class for them to guess the career.