Diversity
Stacey C. Burgess
ED 301-02
Why?
The High school is providing diversity
workshops for grades 9-12. The
administration wishes for you, as the
teacher, to include diversity lessons in
your classroom. The lessons herein are
for 9/10th graders.
Table of Contents
General diversity web links/activities
Age diversity web links/activities
Belief system web links/activities
Social class web links/activities
Exceptionalities web links/activities
Disabilities web links/activities
Gender web links/activities
Language web links
Race/ethnicity web links
Race/ethnicity/language activities
Sexual orientation web links/activities
Teaching resources web links
General Diversity Web Links
Foundation for Middle East Peace
Facts About Employment Discrimination
School Funding Equity
Diversity Journal
Diversity World
General Activities
Question: What does diversity mean? Students will answer this
question in their writing journals.
Once students have a working theory of diversity they will list
what groups are considered a diverse group.
Once they have what groups of people are considered diverse,
we will expand on the question and ask what makes that group
diverse in their opinion.
Students will get into a group and share their answers to see if
their class mates feel that the same things make a group
diverse.
Finally the class will be brought back together and further
examination of the issue will be done in a class discussion.
Age Web Links
Closer look at Teen Pregnancy
this is an important topic for 9th
and 10th graders due to the fact
several of their peers will
become pregnant.
Advocates for Youth A site for
teens about teens. Deals with a
lot of issues that come up in
High school; sex, drugs, and
alcohol.
Types of age discrimination to
show that teens aren’t the only
age discriminated against. Also,
teens should respect their
elders.
Age Web Links continued
AOASome information
about the elderly.
Divorce and Adoption this
site provides information on
nontraditional family life.
Age Activities
Have students write and act out a
skit in which one student is an
elderly man/woman and a couple of
other students represent the
younger generation. Have students
answer questions such as these in
their skit:
How are the elderly treated by
younger generation?
If the skit takes place in the
work place how might forced
early retirement affect the
elderly?
After the students have put on the
skit the rest of the class will do
a free write on what they just
witnessed.
Continued
Have students read selected sections of Go Ask Alice
aloud and then have a class discussion on drugs.
Watch Riding in Cars with Boys and write an informal
essay on how the movie would be different if the
action had taken place in 2003.
Listen to Pink’s “Family Portrait” and then have a
class discussion regarding the lyrics.
Take students to the library and have them research
teen alcoholism and write a pamphlet for a rehab
center.
Beliefs Web Links
The Sephardic-Moroccan Page
This page discusses the art of
Henna, which is a popular skin
ornamentation technique currently.
This site will provide information on
who uses Henna,the real reason
women use Henna and why.
Prayer in Schoolscontroversial
topic regarding all religions.
Native American SpiritualityA
topic that should be considered
when learning about early American
history and reading early American
literature.
Japanese Buddhism
Hindu Universe
Beliefs Activities
Have a debate over Religion in
schools. Students will be
divided up into groups. Each
group will have a Pro Religion
side and a Con Religion side.
Each side will have to be
presented in a civilized manner.
Have students get into groups
of three and research a religion
and give a presentation to the
class on their findings.
Read excerpts from The Diary of
Anne Frank and then open the
floor for class discussion.
Continued
Watch a portion of Schindler’s List and
then have students free write their
responses to the film.
Read portions of Wind Wolf Woman as
a way to address Native American
spirituality.
Social Class Web Links
ERIC Digest 83 - Poverty and
Learningwebsite with stats for
poverty in the United States.
Middle Class America America's Hope for
Tomorrowa very Pro Middle
class website.
Social ClassBritish stand point
on “caste” and some interesting
links.
An Overview of Social
Inequalitysome very nice
graphs.
SOCIAL CLASS AND
DISABILITYinformation on
class in the United States.
Social Class Activities
Students will Read The Good
Earth by Pearl S. Buck and
when finished will create a
Poster to demonstrate what
changed in Wang Lung, the
main character, when he shifted
classes.
Based on this novel students
will do a free write on the
different social classes
presented in the novel.
Students then will write a
compare and contrast paper on
the social classes demonstrated
in the book and in the United
States.
Continued
Students, following the book, will fill out a graphic
organizer explaining which character belongs to what
social class in the book.
Students will do a journal entry. Journal Prompt:
Why do we associate poverty with social class?
Exceptionalities Web Links
The National
Foundation for Gifted
and Creative Children
NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION FOR
GIFTED CHILDREN
HOME PAGE
The Gifted Child Society
Welcome to GT-World!
Gifted Resources
Organization Page
Exceptionalities Activities
Watch A Beautiful Mind.
Have students complete a
free write on the movie.
Journal entry. Prompt: What
do you think it means to be
gifted?
Have students list famous
people who are gifted
Have students research one
famous gifted person and
have them write an essay on
that person.
Disabilities Web Links
Federation for Children with Special Needs
ED385095 1995-08-00 Academic Interventions for
Children with Dyslexia Who Have Phonological Core
Deficits. ERIC Digest E539.
Special Education/IDEA
COSERRC Menu
What's It Like To Have Add?
Disabilities Activities
Have a guest speaker come in to discuss learning
disabilities with students
Have half of the class read the book After the
Dancing Days and the other half read The Alfred
Summer.
Students will participate in reading group situation
Each group will create a poster about their books.
Each group will write a summary of the novel.
Each group will elect representatives, distribute the
summary to the other half of the class, and give a
short presentation on their posters.
Gender Web Links
Men's issues
Gender Shock
Women's/Gender
Studies
Chicana Feminist
Homepage
Gender Inequality
Gender Activities
Free write on what, to the students,
is a male or female job.
Have a speaker come in and discuss
gender issues.
Research how women were treated
in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Have girls read The River by Gery
Paulson boys read a book The Witch
of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth
George Speare.
After reading the books students
will be pulled back together and
asked what the differences between
the two narrations are. (aside from
male female.)
Race/Ethnicity Web Links
Latino Sports Legends
African American Resources
Arab Academy
Celtic Connection
Welcome to India
Language Web Links
Bias-Free Language
Helping the World Communicate
Ensenada Spanish Language School
National Directory of Early Foreign
Language
Language, Culture, and Diversity
Activities for Language and
Ethnicity
Language and ethnicity go together therefore, a student needs
to pick a culture and research the native language and culture
and write a research paper.
Watch foreign film.
Take notes while watching, observing the various cultural
differences.
Read Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.
Graphic organizer on the differences between life as a Chinese
American woman and life as a Chinese woman.
Read Le Petit Prince
Discuss book during class.
Continued
Create a travel brochure on a particular culture.
Stating the countries that partake in this culture and
language.
Make a list of languages that have influenced
American English and on the other side of the sheet
list some words that have been borrowed from those
other languages.
Have a guest speaker come in and lecture about a
certain culture.
Sexual Orientation Web Links
Department of Energy Gay,Lesbian,
Bisexual employees
Lesbian
Journal of Gender Law & Policy
Sexual Orientation Law
Teen Sexuality
Sexual Orientation Activities
Read Traveling Light by Katrina Kittle.
Free write right after the brother passes away to
capture students gut response to the novel.
Discuss the themes involved in the book by writing a
thematic essay.
Reading Journal: Discuss how the novel is either
stereotypical or not.
Media study…how does the media treat sexuality.
Create one of the following: a media montage (i.e.
music, movies, television, and book clips) an essay,
or a speech.
Teaching Resources Web Links
Teaching Tolerance
Learn in Freedom
Gentle Teaching
Cultural Diversity/Multicultural Tools
Activities Workbook
Programs for Educational Opportunities