Teach students about what disability means, and the tools and accommodations that people with disabilities need.
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Use these short evocative videos and films to engage young people in conversations about identity, diversity, bias and social justice.
Understanding bias and discrimination is integral to civics education because it relates to our civil rights. Students explore implicit bias and self-reflect about situations in which they have experienced or encountered everyday type of bias.
August 2020 marksthe centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. Help high school students understand how racism played a role in Black women beingexcluded from the right to vote.
This high school lesson gives students the opportunity to analyze gender bias in presidential elections andexplore how sexism surfaces during campaigns, past and present.
Teach middle schoolstudents about "institutionalized gender discrimination” and the impact of Title IX through the perspective of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team's lawsuit against the U.S Soccer Federation.
This lesson plan helps 8-12 grade students explore and understand the current landscape of elected officials and Presidential hopefuls andhow the 2018 midterm electionbroke records and barriers regarding diversity.
Help elementary students understandthe language of bias in our lives and ways they can make a difference by exploringletter exchanges between 9-year-old Riley Morrison and NBA player Stephen Curry about the Curry 5's.
Could there really be a “gender gap” between what boys and girls earn for allowance? Elementary students explore the reasons for the gap and conduct their own survey.
Research indicatesscientist were almost all men in children's drawings. Teach elementary students how to challenge these gender norms and stereotypes.
In this multi-grade unit, students exploregender stereotypical beliefs, assumptions about job roles, gender segregation and pay inequality in the workplace.
Teach students what ableism is, the many ways it manifestsand how theycan be allies and take actions to confront and challenge ageism.
It seems that slurs, epithets and offensive jokes are part of our everyday lives. Teachmiddle and high school students possible responseswhen confronted with offensive language.
This elementary lesson provides an opportunity for students to watch and reflect upon the film, The Present, learn more about people with disabilities and create their own comic strip based on the film or another story about a person with a disability.
7 Ideas for teaching Women's History Month that broaden students thinking about the experience of women and gender in all of its complexity.
A two-part lesson that provides middle and high school students an opportunity to critically examine certain media forms and their portrayals of women and girls.
This lesson provides an opportunity for middle and high school students to learn more about the 2016 Olympics, reflect on what they’ve seen and heard and assess the extent to which there is sexism and stereotypes in the coverage of the 2016 Olympics.
This lesson provides an opportunity for students to explore and learn more about cyberhate using these two recent news stories, and to reflect upon the best way to confront cyberhate.
This lesson provides an opportunity for students to learn about the sweeping changes in U.S. currency, analyze the role of symbols and their impact and articulate their own opinions about the importance of symbols and symbolic gestures in our society.