Lessons

This lesson, part of the Digital Literacy series, focuses on teaching students to identify how writers can reveal their biases through their word choice and tone. Students will identify “charged” words that communicate a point of view. Students will understand how writers communicate a point of view implicitly by writing their own charged news stories.

This information accompanies the lesson "Beauty is Skin Deep."

These essays accompany the lesson "Beauty Is Skin Deep."

This lesson discusses common characteristics and stereotypes that are associated with athletes.

This lesson is intended to help guide children to respond to literature with an eye toward social justice.

In this lesson, students will examine the cliques within their school community. They will also explore ways to integrate the student body and form relationships across, and in spite of, controlling cliques.

People sometimes look the other way when they see an act of discrimination because they do not know how to stop it. This lesson provides students with real-world examples to help them identify peaceful ways to respond.

This lesson has students practice ways to be more understanding and reflect on the effects of empathetic listening.