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What "Draw-A-Scientist" Reveals about Gender Stereotypes

Elementary School

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

Anti-Bias Education

Children Observing Saturn and the Cassini-Huygens Mission

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Census Question Controversy

Middle School,

High School

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.

Anti-Bias Education

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Who are the Rohingya People in Myanmar?

High School

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."

Anti-Bias Education

Religious Freedom

Photo of Displaced Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

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Moving Beyond Gender Barriers in Our Lives

Elementary School,

Middle School,

High School

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

Anti-Bias Education

Women’s Equity

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Wedding Cake, Same-Sex Marriage and Discrimination

High School

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.

Anti-Bias Education

LGBTQ Rights

Religious Freedom

Lesson Plan

Understanding and Challenging Ableism

Middle School,

High School

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.

Anti-Bias Education

Below the Knee Amputee Sgt. Jerrod Fields

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Diverse Books Matter

Elementary School

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.

Anti-Bias Education

Race & Racial Justice

Lesson Plan

Experiences with Race and Racism

Elementary School,

Middle School

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.

Anti-Bias Education

Race & Racial Justice

Diverse Elementary Students Meeting with Counselor

Lesson Plan

The First Amendment in Public Schools

High School

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.

Anti-Bias Education

Free Speech

Religious Freedom

Lesson Plan

Understanding and Challenging Ageism

Middle School,

High School

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.

Anti-Bias Education

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How Natural Disasters Discriminate

Middle School

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.

Anti-Bias Education

Hurricane Katrina Survivors at Astrodome and Reliant Center

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Survival to Service: Examining Lives of Hidden Children of the Holocaust

Middle School,

High School

A middle/high school curriculum unit based on the life of a hidden child of the Holocaust, draws upon individual stories of loss, survival and rescue to raise student awareness about the Holocaust and increase their commitment to moral decision-making and combating bias and hate.

Anti-Bias Education

Anti-Semitism Globally

Anti-Semitism in the US

Group of Orphans, Survivors of Atlit Refugee Camp

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