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Alcohol and Driving: When to Say No
Students inspect the factors involved in blood alcohol concentration. They observe a Web-based driving simulation and discover the physical and mental impairments caused by alcohol. They calculate the blood alcohol content in various...
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What Do I Want To Be When I Grow Up?
Students draw a picture of the job they would like to have when they grow up. They discuss jobs they would like to have. They discuss the idea that men and women can do the same job.
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COUNTERACTING MEDIA STEREOTYPING
Pupils explore the effects of gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination.
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CHOOSING A CAREER - WITHOUT LIMITATIONS
Learners identify career areas that are not traditional for their gender.
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Identification of Career Choices
Take some time to have your pupils identify careers that are not traditional for their gender.
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GENDER BIASED WORD PROBLEMS
Young scholars identify word problems that show stereotyping and calculate the percentages.
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WHAT INFLUENCES OUR PERCEPTION OF GENDER ROLES?
Young scholars talk about the influence of media on gender equity perception.
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THOSE ANCIENT GREEKS
Students research Athens and Sparta and based on their research they are to make a visual aid showing their findings.
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WOMEN'S AND MEN'S ROLES IN DIFFERENT CULTURES
Students examine careers that are not traditional to their gender.
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Women's Brains
Students experience an example of bias in science dealing with women and gender.
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The Quality of Equality
Students are introduced to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They relate it to their own rights, freedoms, and responsibilities as Canadian citizens. They create pictures illustrating equality.
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Women Characters and Readers
Young scholars participate in a guided reading of Chapter IX in Harriet Beecher Stow's, Uncle Tom's Cabin. They research the topic of gender and present it to the class.
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Women in Skiing: Winter Sports, Gender Roles, Discrimination, Women's History
Students create a newsletter about women in skiing, addressing issues of gender discrimination in sports and women's achievements.
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Ethnicity, Gender and the Courts
Eleventh graders explore their own beliefs about the qualities that make someone qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. In this American Government lesson, 11th graders write about and debate the ethnic, religious, and gender...
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Getting to Know You
Pupils complete an getting to know each other activity. In this personal names lesson, students play a name game, read a book about names, and then discuss why names are important. Pupils design a name card on oak tag rectangles and...
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New Market
Middle schoolers use documents from American Memory, plus supplementary material, to investigate electrification as both a technological and a social process. They also identify various ways technology has influenced the course of...
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The Role Of Japanese Women
Students consider the role of women in upper-class Japanese society through the reading of a folktale and the study of Japanese art images. The lesson emphasizes small, cooperative learning groups.
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Tortured Beauty
Students compare and contrast two fundamentally different treatments of women, one Chinese and one Japanese, and to examine how this reflects on the culture that produced them.
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Building a "Toolbox for Difference"
Pupils discover how race and gender relate to their sense of civic obligation. As a class, they create a 3-D toolbox for making a difference in their community or the world. They write an essay to accompany it explaining the design and...
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True and Honorable Wives?
Students discuss whether men or women are smarter. They divide into groups and review Act 2 of Julius Caesar and look for incidents of characters reading or mis-reading "signs", and making either wise or foolish decisions.
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What If Things Were Different
Students understand how history is made, in terms of the individuals responsible for actions in the past and in terms of those in the present who preserve and interpret stories from the past.The subject matter relates to gender and...
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Gender and Media #1
Students expand their knowledge to not focus on stereotypes. They practice using new vocabulary words and analyze different media for the use of stereotypes.