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Determining the Existence of Gender Bias in Daily Tasks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Help your kids explore gender bias. Learners design and conduct a survey examining role responsibilities within families. They determine the percentage of responsibilities for males vs. females and graph the results. Then they analyze...
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Marital Roles

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners consider the differences between egalitarian and traditional marriages. They analyze a series of video clips and mid-century advertisements looking for evidence of gender bias in marriage. Feminism, gender roles for women and...
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CAN WE SWITCH GENDERS OF STORY CHARACTERS?

For Teachers K - 6th
Analyze characters and stories to identify stereotyping. Learners will examine the concept of character gender to evaluate bias in classroom story books. They are asked to read a story or play and change the gender of the character to...
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Counteracting Media Stereotyping

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Discuss media stereotypes with your emerging consumers. They view a television program to identify gender bias. After discussing the clip as a class, each learner writes a story showing more equitable roles. Or consider having them...
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Gender Bias and Poverty

For Students 10th - 12th
This worksheet tests reading comprehension and grammar skills while teaching about gender bias and poverty. Learners complete a cloze activity, filling in 15 blank spaces with one of the choices provided below the paragraph. This...
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Barbie Girl: Gender Equity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine gender bias and strategies to overcome it.  In this gender equity lesson, students discuss what gender bias is, identify the presence of bias and discrimination and examine vocabulary that indicates the presence of bias. 
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Choosing A Career - Without Limitations

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine their views on gender bias in the classroom. In this gender bias/gender equity lesson, students define non-traditional career areas for their gender. They discuss their perception of "male and female" jobs before...
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The Gingerbread Person

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss gender bias and stereotyping. In this social science lesson, students read the book "The Gingerbread Boy" and discuss why it is a boy. Students then write their own story changing it to a gingerbread girl and a female fox.
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TV Tells it All

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students discuss the concept of gender bias and stereotyping. In this social science lesson, students determine what the influence of television on gender roles represents and compares the chage in gender roles of today to those of their...
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Can We Switch Genders of Story Characters?

For Teachers K - 6th
Students read and review the main elements of a story. In this language arts lesson, students predict what the story read to them would have been like if the genders of the characters had been different. Students write a new story in...
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Is the Brady Bunch Biased

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine gender bias on television and in the movies. In this social science lesson, students watch various shows and when an instance of stereotypical behavior, or gender bias situation occurs, learners think about the problem....
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Right to Equal Opportunity

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate the concept of equal opportunity in school. In this equal opportunity lesson, students participate in a discussion about the fairness of certain situations in school. They listen to a story entitled, "Left Out",...
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A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars analyze the numbers of male vs female administrators and teachers from their school. In this gender equality lesson plan, students use school yearbooks from the 1950's threw present to count how many male vs. female...
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Voting

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate the importance of voter participation while examine gender bias in voting situations. They design a campaign aimed at increasing voter participation after experiencing an activity which only allows the boys in the...
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How Are We Different?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners explain and accept the similarities and differences between girls and boys. They focus on gender neutrality and recognize gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination in school materials, activities, and classroom instruction.
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Cinderella: an Adaptation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a list of characteristics for the heroine of a fairy tale and discuss ways these images affect behavior and self-esteem.  In this, The House on Mango Street gender equity instructional activity, students identify common...
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Gender Equity: I Said, She Said

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students collect and analyze data on classroom participation.  In this gender equity lesson, students use tally marks to collect data on the sex and numbers of students who participate in classroom discussions.  Students work in small...
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INFUSING EQUITY BY GENDER INTO THE CLASSROOM:A Handbook of Classroom Practices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination impacts their lives.  Students examine behaviors they believe are acceptable for males and females and will compose an essay based on their findings. 
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Gender Equity: Gender Role Assignment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze and compare personal and societal perception of gender roles.  In this gender roles activity, students record their personal point of view on various tasks such as doing dishes or car maintenance.  Students then work in...
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What Influences Our Perception of Gender Roles?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research gender equity and the media.  In this gender equity instructional activity, students evaluate the influence of various media on both individuals and society.  Students discuss examples of media that portray gender roles...
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Digital Sexism Quiz

For Students 7th - 12th
For this digital age quiz, students respond to 10 true or false questions based on their opinions of gender bias in contemporary society.
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Be the Kiwi: Gender Roles

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners take a look at gender roles in New Zealand. In this global issues instructional activity, students analyze statistics that reveal the divide between men and women employees in the country.
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When Johnny Came Marching Home

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the concept of gender bias. In this discrimination activity, students research 1940's and 1950's America and determine how historical events shaped the changing role of women in the country.
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Who Will Wear the Hat? Who Will Use the Tool?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students determine that there are nontraditional careers for their gender. In this gender equity lesson, students along with the guidance counselor discuss different jobs and vocations by looking at associated tools and props. Students...