Curated OER
Surviving the Social Jungle
Students explore and recognize social structures. In this social standards instructional activity, students discuss social problems and cliques. Students role play and search for bible verses that reflect how God wants them to handle...
Facing History and Ourselves
What Does It Mean to Belong?
After reading and analyzing The 'In' Group by Eve Shalen, sixth graders consider how the categorization of people results in exclusion, discrimination, and injustice.
Curated OER
Cliques Online
Learners develop critical thinking skills about personal situations depicted in a video about cliques. Issues about identity, self-esteem, and stereotypes are explored.
Curated OER
Gangs and Clicks... Are They One In the Same?
Students compare gangs and cliques. In this comparison activity, students prepare to read the book, The Outsiders, by making a Venn diagram comparing gangs and cliques. They brainstorm ideas about the two groups which they add to the...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Cliques, Friendship Groups, or Boxes?"
Explore the social "boxes" young scholars place themselves in or are put in by others, and focus on how individuals judge one another.