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What Are Stereotypes and Gender Roles? Lesson PlanWhat Are Stereotypes and Gender Roles? Lesson Plan
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What Are Stereotypes and Gender Roles?

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Living up to what society expects of you is difficult enough before you add the complications of sexual and racial prejudice. Discuss the difficulties faced by people in your country, neighborhood, and classroom with a series of activities focused on stereotypes and equal treatment.

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Concepts

stereotypes, gender roles, prejudice, discrimination, empathy, relationships, media analysis, diversity

Additional Tags

health

Instructional Ideas

  • Use in a class session of any course when discussing media portrayal of gender roles, or when talking about discrimination
  • Have learners keep a log of the instances of discrimination they experience over a week, or have them record any examples of preferential treatment due to their race or sex

Classroom Considerations

  • Does not include transgender in the categories of groups who experience discrimination
  • Be sure that your class can have mature conversations about topics that are sensitive

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  • Comes with all necessary worksheets
  • Provides several different types of activities based on your class setting and curriculum needs

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