Tag Archives: United States

Booklet: Making Friends,Being Friends

Posted on December 10, 2011

The Spring 2006 activity booklet contains lesson plans that illustrate to teachers how the themes in the Mix It Up program can be incorporated into certain discussions, events, and holiday celebrations. The lesson plans in this booklet are for activities … Continue reading →

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Teaching about Religion

Posted on December 10, 2011

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 →

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Posted in English, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Lesson Plans, Resources, Teaching Tools, Tool Boxes | Tagged middle grades, secondary level, Teaching Religion, United States, USA, Worldviews | | ', '' ); ?>

Ed Helper

Posted on December 10, 2011

This web-page is an online subscription service, which provides a wide range of materials and inspiration to teachers and homeschooling parents, about world religions. It describes religions overall, but also has a more specific description of a long list of … Continue reading →

Posted in English, Games, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade K, Other Tools, Resources, Teaching Tools, Tool Boxes | Tagged Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, other religions, quizzes, religion, Taoism, teaching materials, United States, USA, Zoroastrianism | | ', '' ); ?>

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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Approach to Teaching Religious Tolerance

Posted on December 10, 2011

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 →

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Celebrating Connections

Posted on December 10, 2011

This activity has students look at various religious traditions and celebrations to find common understanding and differences among them. This activity will involve three classroom periods and also some homework for the students. The class will be divided into groups … Continue reading →

Posted in English, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Lesson Plans, Other Tools, Resources, Teaching Tools | Tagged celebrations, differences, religion, religious holidays, symbols, traditions, United States, USA | | ', '' ); ?>

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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Building Bridges. A Peace Corps Classroom Guide to Cross-Cultural Understanding

Posted on December 10, 2011

The booklet provides short, adaptable lesson plans and activities that build cross-cultural awareness, respect, and communication in your classroom. Lessons are flexible, easy to use, and standards-based.

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Peace Be Upon You

Posted on December 10, 2011

This classroom activity explores the issue of the separation of church and state and the issue of religious tolerance. The separation of church and state has been a controversial issue in the U.S., and this activity enables teachers to engage … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court Decisions on Freedom of Religion

Posted on December 10, 2011

These lesson plans are the result of the work of the teachers who have attended the Columbia Education Center's Summer Workshop. CEC is a consortium of teacher from 14 western states dedicated to improving the quality of education in the … Continue reading →

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