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Teaching @ Tolerance How tolerant are kids in your school

Posted on December 10, 2011

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 →

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Teaching @ Tolerance – Those tear-me-apart, put-me-back-together, never-be-the-same-again blues

Posted on December 10, 2011

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Teaching @ Tolerance Teaching about tolerance through music

Posted on December 10, 2011

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Use literature to teach tolerance

Posted on December 10, 2011

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 →

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ABCs of Religion in Schools

Posted on December 10, 2011

This activity encourages teachers to teach students about world religions as an integrated part of academic life. The activity stresses maintaining neutrality, keeping the class academic, teaching about the faiths behind certain holidays, and focusing on respect inquiry.

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Mixitup Activity Booklet middle & upper grades

Posted on December 10, 2011

The Fall 2005 activity booklet contains activities and lesson plans for teachers to encourage students to assess social boundaries at school, challenge their schools’ group divisions, and assess the perceptions of different people. The activity Mix It Up Survey is … Continue reading →

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Teaching Tolerance

Posted on December 10, 2011

This site has various materials for teaching about tolerance. Under the “Classroom Activities” section, activities are listed for students to engage with one another in the classroom and at school while promoting tolerance and understanding.In the “Kits and Handbooks” section, … Continue reading →

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Toledo guiding principles on teaching about religions and beliefs in public schools

Posted on December 10, 2011

The Guiding Principles offer practical guidance for preparing curricula for teaching about religions and beliefs, preferred procedures for assuring fairness in the development of curricula, and standards for how they could be implemented. They highlight procedures and practices concerning the … Continue reading →

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Understanding Prejudice: Teachers Corner

Posted on December 10, 2011

This page contains links to teaching ideas, materials, and resources, including more than 35 college-level as well as Elementary and Secondary School activities and student assignments.

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Learning to live together: An intercultural and interfaith programme for ethics and education

Posted on December 10, 2011

“Learning to Live Together approaches the issue of ethics education from the perspectives of intercultural and interfaith learning, human rights and quality education, where ethics and values are nurtured and where children are given the space to develop their innate … Continue reading →

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