Grades Archive
Approach to Teaching Religious Tolerance
This link contains a lesson plan for teaching about religious tolerance. The lesson plan focuses around the concept of religious freedom and how this issue is critical to understanding rights in the United States. References to the Constitution, specifically the … Continue reading
Use literature to teach tolerance
This website is a lesson plan that commemorates 9/11 by teaching tolerance through literature. This lesson plan utilizes literature to teach about tolerance to elementary and middle school students. The literature listed on this website includes novels and short stories … Continue reading
Teaching about Religion
The web site is designed to assist teachers of middle grades and secondary level history and social science programs especially in the areas of teaching about religion in history, social studies, and religious studies. It aims to encourage students toward … Continue reading
Teaching @ Tolerance How tolerant are kids in your school
This website provides a lesson plan about tolerance modeled around the work and lessons of Martin Luther King, Jr. Five lesson plans are provided which each focus on a different message of tolerance. Each lesson plan covers a specific … Continue reading
Teaching @ Tolerance Bursting Stereotypes
This website provides a lesson plan about tolerance modeled around the work and lessons of Martin Luther King, Jr. Five lesson plans are provided which each focus on a different message of tolerance. Each lesson plan covers a specific … Continue reading
Change the Story, the U.S. Muslim Engagement Project
The Change the Story curriculum offers a starting point for increased knowledge and understanding of Islam and the Muslim community in an effort to reduce misinformation and promote mutual respect.
Teaching @ Tolerance Teaching about tolerance through music
This website provides a lesson plan about tolerance modeled around the work and lessons of Martin Luther King, Jr. Five lesson plans are provided which each focus on a different message of tolerance. Each lesson plan covers a specific … Continue reading
Religion and Ethics Lesson Plans
RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY’s lesson plans introduce students to today’s most important religious and moral issues. Using selected stories, online video, and other resources from the R&E Web site, these lessons address a broad range of current events from bioethics … Continue reading
Religious Fundamentalism Internal Assessment Resource
This document provides a lesson plan and assessment resource for teachers when teaching about religious fundamentalism in relation to social studies. By religious fundamentalism, this lesson refers to the anti-modernist movements of some religions.

