Teach students about this history of Barbie, reflect on their own experiences with Barbie and consider what identity groups may be missing from Barbie's collection.
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Teach students about the gender allowance gap and have them express their knowledge and thoughts about it through a persuasive letter.
Teach students how to critically examine certain media forms and their portrayals of women and girls.
Teach students about the 2016 Olympics, helping them assess the extent to which there is sexism and stereotypes in the media coverage of it.
Teach students about the gender pay gap, what it reflects about sexism and strategies to address the gender pay gap.
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language Teaching Opportunity: Exploring the Electoral Process
Political debates can provide important learning opportunities. When election time comes around—whether it be a presidential election or a local contest for mayor, city council member, governor or member of Congress—these debates give teachers an opening to explore candidates, issues and the electoral process with…
Teach students about Henry and Henriet’s actions that led to the change in school lunch policy, while exploring students' opinions about gender norms and separating children by gender.
Teach students about what heterosexism is, how it manifests and discuss ways they can act as an ally.
Engage students in exploring their experiences and opinions about movies, analyze demographic information about the movie industry and explore the role of implicit bias.
Engage students in exploring how as a society, we view boys and men and understand concepts of masculinity.
Teach students about the gaming world and how sexism shows up and is perpetuated in gaming.
Teach students about Malala Yousafzai and why she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Speaking and Listening The First Girl to Pitch a Shutout in the Little League World Series
In 2014 Mo’Ne Davis, a 13-year-old girl, made news headlines as the first girl to ever pitch a shutout in the Little League World series. At that time she was considered the “most talked about baseball player on earth right now” according to many observers in the sports world. Mo’Ne (pronounced Moh-nay…
Teach students about marriage equality for same-sex couples and the history of it.
Teach students about how toys are influenced by gender stereotypes and consider how children and families are impacted by those messages.