Addressing Gender Stereotypes in the Classroom

Essential Question

How can we change the way we view gender in the classroom?

Texts

Informational

Storm

In this story, the parents of three children decide not to tell people the gender of the third child in an effort to avoid promoting stereotypes. Instead, they allow the child to be a person rather than a pretty girl who wears pink or a strong boy who wears blue.

Tamera Bryant

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

Civics

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

July 9, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Liberation Literature and Counter-narratives

This strategy exposes students to literature that places out-group identities at the center of the curriculum.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RI.K-1.1

July 13, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Collage of Concerns

Students create visual artwork combining various images to convey diversity or social justice issues, concerns or themes related to the central text.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

Do Something

Community Puzzle Mural

Students create a community puzzle mural, a large-scale artistic depiction, usually displayed in a community space. Puzzle pieces covered in student’s artwork relating to diversity, anti-bias or social justice themes from the central text comprise the mural.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

Plan Built By

saltymomo

Addressing Gender Stereotypes in the Classroom

Storm

Liberation Literature and Counter-narratives

Collage of Concerns

Community Puzzle Mural

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