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Middle School Diversity Activities
This activity brings the stories of individuals to the multicultural experience. Each participant will write a short story about their name and share the story in a small group. (from the Multicultural Pavilion)
The ABCs of Whiteness and Anti-Racism These activities help kids think about what it means to be white in a multicultural society and what they can do to fight injustice. (from Teaching Tolerance)
Students will create their own culture, constructing the different aspects that sets each culture apart from another. They will interpret these aspects and provide a written correlation between the aspects that they have created and how it affects their created society. (from SuccessLink)
What would it be like to grow up in another culture? One way to explore this question is through memoirs and novels. Now, with the Internet, you can offer your students an interactive means to venture outside the borders of their own experience to try on an alternative cultural identity. (from EDSITEment)
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Power of Nonviolence This lesson introduces students to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolence and the teachings of Mohandas K. Gandhi that influenced King's views. After considering the political impact of this philosophy, students explore its relevance to personal life. (from EDSITEment)
Students will identify important civil rights leaders and describe the life and legacy of a particular civil rights leader. (from Discovery Education)
One of the best ways to break down of the barriers of prejudice is to educate students about the positive aspects of different cultures. This Multicultural Fair is designed to both create an interest in and awareness of different cultures, and how they can benefit through the knowledge gained through this study. (from the Educator's Reference Desk)
An activity that allows students to voice their ever-growing opinions about fairness and justice in a manner that not only promotes writing and oral skills but also fosters the ability to see other people's perspectives. (from Teaching Tolerance)
What do Halloween costumes say? This activity, adaptable across grades, is designed to help students look critically at the Halloween costumes and examine them for bias and stereotypes. (from Teaching Tolerance)
Lesson plan shows students how games reflect a culture's beliefs, priorities, and everyday life. Students design their own Native American Board Game. (from Discovery Education)
Art mosaic comparing and contrasting images from "American Culture" with the culture of a subgroups. (from the Educator's Reference Desk)
Students research folk dances, i.e. Hungarian and Romanian. May be partnered with music education or physical education to perform dances or music. (from the Educator's Reference Desk)
Students develop a new holiday that might celebrate or share information about their culture. The teacher compiles a booklet of the new holidays. (from the Educator's Reference Desk)
The Intolerance Project examines issues surrounding intolerance and racism and their impact on international, national, community, and school levels. (from Microsoft)
In this project, students explore the famous landmarks or monuments of countries around the world. They discuss how those landmarks represent the culture of the country and also how the landmarks reflect that country's collective memory. Working in teams, students then create a year-long calendar that features 12 countries, along with one significant landmark or monument for each of those countries. (from Microsoft)
Lest We Forget... Crimes of Humanity This unit encompasses the study and reflection of violations of human dignity throughout our history. Students will research and personally respond to these tragic historical events. They will create a movie that depicts the emotional as well as the historical account of these violations involving discrimination, persecution and crimes against humanity. (from Apple Learning Interchange)
Exploring Stereotypes: First Thoughts In this activity, students consider stereotypes, beginning with stereotypes of "teenagers." (from Teachable Moment)
No More Hate and Fear: Spread the Word! In this unit learners will examine the nature of prejudice, as well as cultural differences. They will reflect on how these differences can enhance our lives. They will also discuss how the fear and hate of other cultures is taught. They will identify some specific cultural differences that they can celebrate and share with their class and will also create projects (such as illustrated picture books) to present to younger students which highlight some elements of their own culture if they are ESL/ENL students. (from Learning to Give)
Minimizing the Digital Divide and the Generational Gap This program centers on students teaching computer and Internet skills to senior citizens and writing with the seniors a “mini e-book” based on a chapter from the senior’s personal history. Combining senior citizens’ experience and knowledge with youngsters’ computer and Internet mastery fosters new social interactions and minimizes the generational gap and digital divide. (from Tech Learning)
Before you could say "Jackie Robinson" Want to motivate your students to learn about segregation and the importance of cultural diversity? Here is a colorful unit that illustrates how baseball reflected and led critical social shifts in American history from the Civil War to the modern-day Civil Rights movement. Beginning with the origin of the Negro leagues to Jackie Robinson's integration of Major League Baseball in 1947, untold stories of honor, courage, and perseverance are brought to life through interactive multicultural lessons spanning several subject areas. (from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum)
Experiencing Prejudice and Discrimination This is an activity geared to helping students understand somewhat of what it feels like to be picked out and experience discrimination and prejudices that are so apparent in our world. (from the Educator's Reference Desk)
By thinking about the intersections of whites, blacks, and others around the blues, students will deepen their understanding of discrimination and prejudice. They will also come to understand the ways in which music can, or cannot, create opportunities for people of different cultures, and with varying degrees of power, to relate to one another and find common ground. (from PBS)
Respecting Religious Diversity In this unit, learners will explore the issues of religious diversity by dismantling the myths of prejudice, discovering the root causes of prejudice, by undertaking an overview of the three religious groups and completing a service project, the goal of which will be to teach other learners the value of diversity and being tolerant of others. (from Learning to Give)
Cultural Awareness: Sharing Traditions In a multicultural secondary school setting many students have built walls around their ethnicity, and they form small cliques, along with prejudices, and stereotypes of others who are different than themselves. The purpose of the activity is to have students within a small team get to know each other by sharing cultural traditions which make their families unique. (from the Educator's Reference Desk)
This Guidance/Drama unit offers students the opportunity to identify prejudices and understand how certain character traits such as tolerance, respect, and kindness affect their choice of behavior. (from the University of NC at Chapel Hill)
Activity exchange for grades 7-9 to explore gender stereotyping in career fields. (from Teaching Tolerance)
Activity exchange for grades 6-8 to explore global differences through pen pals. (from Teaching Tolerance)
Comic books are visual literature. This simple cooperative group activity allows students to identify confrontational issues within their own school and then imagine solutions by creating a comic strip. (from Teaching Tolerance)
a bullying survey for early grades and a bullying quiz for middle and upper grades, designed to increase awareness about and decrease instances of bullying. (from Teaching Tolerance)
This activity looks at the role gender had to play in the Children's March during the Civil Rights movement. (from Teaching Tolerance)
What can Santa teach us about stereotypes? In this lesson, students will explore the way clothing can influence our perceptions of one another. (from Teaching Tolerance)
Help students remove prejudices they might have and dispel public myths regarding the "poor" through this five-month project. (from Teaching Tolerance)
Mix It Up: The Discomfort Zone Students challenge boundary lines in the community. (from Teaching Tolerance)
In this activity, students explore the lives of immigrant teens and learn about the social boundaries in their own school along the way. (from Teaching Tolerance)
A Minnesota teacher challenges her students to face up to verbal and physical harassment. (from Teaching Tolerance)
Understanding Poverty & Homelessness Two Oregon educators focus student attention on the realities of poverty and encourage action on this critical social issue. (from Teaching Tolerance)
Students have an opportunity to explore Census data and discover how the face of our nation is changing. (from Teaching Tolerance)
Many math educators believe that learning about the multicultural history of mathematics can help a more diverse range of students achieve math success. Knowledge of their ancestors' contributions, proponents say, could enhance students' interest in algebra, for example, which was brought to Europe in books written by Islamic scholars from Central Asia, Arabia, Turkey, and North Africa. The following excerpt and activity, suitable for 7th-9th graders, examines the origins of early North African number systems. (Teaching Tolerance)
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