Lesson Plans

In this high school lesson plan, students explore implicit and explicit bias, learn about recent incidents of everyday bias and self-reflect about situations in which they have experienced or encountered everyday type of bias.

A lesson for elementary students to explore gender norms and stereotypes through scientist drawings and to challenge these norms through character writing.

The Justice Department's request to add citizenship question to the 2020 Census causes a great deal of controversy. In this lesson, students learn about the U.S. Census, reflect upon the controversy and express their own point of view by writing a persuasive letter.

Students have an opportunity to learn about and develop empathy for the plight of the Rohingya people in Myanmar and explore what can be done about the crisis, which is being called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing."

A multi-grade unit that explores gender stereotypical beliefs, assumptions about job roles and gender and gender segregation and pay inequality in the workplace.

High school students learn about the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission and its related Constitutional principles, and reflect on their own opinions and the views of others through opinion op-eds and essay writing.

This lesson provides an opportunity for students to understand what ableism is and the many ways it manifests, and to consider ways they can be allies and take actions to confront and challenge ageism.

Through review and examination of videos, articles, data research and hashtag campaigns—#1000BlackGirlBooks and #WeNeedDiverseBooks, students learn about and discuss the importance of diverse literature.

Lesson provides 5th-7th graders an opportunity to explore, reflect on and write about race and racism from their own perspective and a range of young people’s first encounter stories.

This 4-lesson unit helps high school students learn about democracy, examine the First Amendment and explore how their freedoms originated and how they function today in schools, in their communities and globally.

This lesson provides an opportunity for students to understand what ageism is and the many ways it manifests, and to consider ways they can be allies and take actions to confront and challenge ageism.

Middle school students reflect on and analyze the ways in which natural disasters discriminate in the way they impact certain identity groups in disproportionate ways.