Online Lesson Plans
Sponosred by The Department of Teacher
Education & Professional Development at
Central Michigan University
Sponosred by The Department of Teacher
Education & Professional Development at
Central Michigan University
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Online Lesson Plans
Sponosred by The Department of Teacher Education & Professional Development at Central Michigan University |
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Multicultural/Diversity Education Lesson Plans -
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| Ask ERIC Cultural Awareness Lesson Plans Grades 9-12 |
| Kinder ART Multicultural Art Activities features art activities that explore other cultures including Africa, Australia, China, Japan, Mexico, North America Indigenous People, and the rest of the world. For grades K-12. |
| Jeffco Multicultural Lesson Plans: A fantastic accumulation of lesson plans with multicultural themes. There are lesson plans covering ethnic quilting, coming to America, cowboys, the Bill of Rights and How Other Cultures View it, and many more. |
| Quiz on Prejudices - an interactive lesson and good starting point for discussion. Interesting site to collect great dicussion questions. One might take caution with taking the multiple choice and true/false quiz, many of the choices are not chooseable due to lack of detail in the questions being asked. For instance the first question uses the word "punishment" but it's not defined as a simple reprimand, a fine, or jail time. |
| Teaching Tolerance to Middle School Social Studies Students. Suggestions for classroom activities. The site provides many activities which get students involved in discussing tolerance. The activites are already in place so they are ready to use for teachers and students. |
| Lessons in Tolerance - lesson plans and activities for a range of ages as well as student discussion areas and links to other resources. Many lessons are designed for ESL settings. |
| Multicultural Pavilion - Resources and Dialogues for Educators, Students and Activists. Lesson plans and activities for multicultural education. |
| Multicultural Book Review Homepage. This is a great site to read reviews on multicultural books you would want to include in a classroom. There are a lot of books out there that are categorized as multicultural but really aren't and rather stereotype people of various cultures. |
| Bridging the cultural gap between Gypsies and others. Great resource with background information on Gypsies in France. |
| Hot Seat Meaning Making Activity - "to help students walk in the shoes of characters dealing with issues of tolerance or reacting to intolerance." Full of resources and actual lesson plans from teachers and students who have done them. Includes meaning making activities, project-based activities, literature based activities. You can grab an actual lesson as is, or you can use it for food for thought in creating your own. |
| Talking Walls - This lesson can be taught while the class reads the book Talking Walls. The lesson is designed as a vehicle for students to make a personal connection to the issue of how we build walls to divide us from others or how walls can bring us together. |
| Music over Manhattan - This supplemental unit for Music Over Manhattan provides activities and web resources developed as part of the curriculum for the 1999 summer institutes for Teaching Steps to Tolerance Program. |
| Project Based Learning - This list came from a publication called Resiliency In Action. It is part of larger article written by Dr. Kretzman and Paul H. Schmitz. The title of article is It Takes a Child to Raise a Whole Village. (The article originally appeared in the 1994-95 issue of Wingspread, a newsletter of The Johnson Foundation.) This list of suggestions fits into this Web site's goal which is to promote not only the use of literature to teach tolerance but to also create action based programs that connect with the ideas in the literature. |
| Meaningful Life - The bibliography lists resources that can be used with lessons that prompt students to pose the question, "What is a meaningful life?" The literature listed deals with individuals whose lives have been meaningful to themselves and others, and could be used as a starting point for teachers and students to construct their own definition of a meaningful life. |
| Literature Dealing with Hate - The bibliography lists resources that can be used with lessons that prompt students to ask the question, "What is hate speech?" Compiled alphabetically by author, this list contains sources that are appropriate for professional reading and classroom discussion. |
| Literature - The list of books is arranged alphabetically by author. All sources are appropriate for professional reading and classroom discussion and present issues of tolerance. |
| Teaching Tolerance from the Southern Poverty Law Center- Each month of the school year, Teaching Tolerance provides new easy-to-use tolerance-related activities that can be implemented directly or adapted for classroom needs. We are always looking for creative lessons and projects, both for this site and for our magazine. Please share with us – and with your fellow educators nationwide – the best ideas you’ve found for teaching tolerance. |
| Facing History and Ourselves - links to information about books and videos and some lesson plans. |
| Non-Western History - links to information about a variety of non-Western cultures; designed for K-12 teachers. |
| Links to Teaching Tips on Diversity |
| Opening the Door to Diversity - An Outstanding site for middle school teachers and students filled with lesson plans and video clips of middle school students addressing diversity issues. |
| School Tools - Inuit - Information for school children about the Inuit people, provided by the Government of the Northwest Territories. |