Welcome to Year 8 PSHCE
Stereotypes, prejudice and
discrimination
Objectives:
• To introduce and understand the idea of
Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination
• To begin to consider how Stereotypes,
Prejudice and Discrimination affect
people’s lives.
What are Stereotypes, Prejudice
and Discrimination?
• Do you have any idea what these
words mean?
• On the whiteboards, try and work
out what the words mean. Write
down your ideas and hold them up
for me to see.
Did you get anywhere near the
definitions below?
• STEREOTYPES – a standard image or idea
of a type of person, for example all Muslims
are Terrorist.
• PREJUDICE – an opinion about something,
a dislike of a particular race, religion or group
E.G – Adolf Hitler and the Jewish people.
• DISCRIMINATION – to single out a group or
person for bad treatment/good treatment on
the basis of their religion, race or sex.
Write these definitions in your book!
What are Stereotypes, Prejudice
and Discrimination?
• Can you think of any examples of
Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination?
Working in pairs, write your ideas on your
boards.
Feedback to the group.
What are Stereotypes, Prejudice
and Discrimination?
• You are going to be given a pack of cards.
You are to look at the cards and decide
whether the incidents on the cards are
STEREOTYPES, PREJUDICE or
DISCRIMINATION.
• What did you decide?
• On the blank cards, write down your own
examples of Stereotypes, Prejudice and
Discrimination. Swop with another pair and
sort them into the three groups.
What are Stereotypes, Prejudice
and Discrimination?
• Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination are
generally bad things.
• Do you agree?
• Have you ever been the victim of Stereotype,
Prejudice or Discrimination? If you can, share
your experiences with the class.
ACTIVITY
• In your books, design a poster showing
how Stereotypes, Prejudice and
Discrimination are bad things.
• Use the ideas we have discussed in our
group and add your own. Use pencils and
crayons.
Schindler’s List
• Watch the film carefully.
• Describe what you see. What kind of
behaviour can you observe?
• On the boards, give five key words to
describe how you think the people being
shouted at felt.
• What is happening?
Schindler’s List
• What you see on the film is RACISM.
• Racism means treating one group of
people less well than another because
of their colour, religious belief or ethnic
origin.
• Racism is bad! People who encourage
racism usually use lies to encourage
racism in others.
• Can you think of any examples of
racism?
• Do you
know who
this is?
This is Stephen Lawrence
• Stephen Lawrence was killed in a racist
attack in 1993.
• No one has ever been found guilty of his
murder, although his family and police
believe that they caught the culprits but they
were not convicted.
• This is what RACISM can lead to.
Kicking out Racism
• Many football clubs have joined the ‘Kick Out
Racism’ campaign.
They state that the club will not tolerate
racism and that it will take action against
those supporters involved in racist chanting.
Ban supporters involved in racist behaviour.
Stop the sale or distribution of racist
information around the ground.
Discipline players who shout racist abuse.
Remove all racist graffiti from the grounds.
Kicking out Racism
• Draw up an anti racist charter for display in
school.
• In your book, present your rules on a scroll.
Finally…
• On your boards, write down five things that
you have learned today. Discuss them with
your partner.