Tag Archives: USA

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 →

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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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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 →

Posted in English, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 8, Grade 9, Lesson Plans, Other Tools, Resources, Teaching Tools | Tagged beliefs, constitution, freedom of religion, religious persecution, religious tolerance, rights, United States, United States of America, USA | | ', '' ); ?>

World Religions Grades 3 – 7

Posted on December 10, 2011

These websites through PBS provides lesson plan ideas for teachers to incorporate into their classes about world religions. Topics covered in the Grades 3 to 7 activity ideas includes religious buildings/houses of worship for different faiths, celebrations various religions have … Continue reading →

Posted in English, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Lesson Plans, Other Tools, Resources, Teaching Tools | Tagged Animism/Ethnic, Bhagavad Gita, Bible, Book of Chuang Tzu, Buddhist, cathedral, Christ, Christians, Church, Confucianism, Copts, Easter, God, Hajj, Hinduism/Hindu, holidays, Holocaust, Islam/Muslim, Judaism/Jewish, Koran, Mecca, mosque, Native American, Passover, Protestant, Purim, Religious buildings, Shinto, Sikh, Sinhalese, synagogue, Taliban, Taoism, temple, Torah, Tripitaka, USA, worship | | ', '' ); ?>

Teaching @ Tolerance Bursting Stereotypes

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 →

Posted in English, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Lesson Plans, Other Tools, Resources, Teaching Tools | Tagged Asian, assume, assumption, cultural, culture, fairness, generalize, Hispanic, homophobia, homosexual, judgment, Mexican, multicultural, Native Americans, opinion, prejudice, race, racism, self-esteem, stereotype, tolerance., understanding, United States of America, USA, violence | | ', '' ); ?>

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 →

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 | | ', '' ); ?>

Understanding Prejudice

Posted on December 10, 2011

The purpose of the site is to offer educational resources and information on prejudice, discrimination, multiculturalism, and diversity, with the ultimate goal of reducing the level of intolerance and bias in contemporary society.

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Teaching @ Tolerance How tolerant are kids in your school

Posted on December 10, 2011

Posted in English, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Lesson Plans, Other Tools, Resources, Teaching Tools | Tagged bully, clique, prejudice, self-esteem, tolerance., United States of America, USA | | ', '' ); ?>

The Civic Mirror

Posted on December 10, 2011

The Civic Mirror is simulation tool that helps teachers turn classrooms into countries and students into citizens of those countries. This simulation is played both online and in the classroom setting. During this simulation, the students involved participate in three … 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

Posted in English, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade K, Lesson Plans, Other Tools, Resources, Teaching Tools | Tagged bully, feelings, intolerance, mean, prejudice, self-esteem, tolerance., USA, violence | | ', '' ); ?>