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Diversity Activities
Why Multicultural Education Activities are Important
Activities allow students to experience new things and to express their feelings. Using activities can:
- Help educators reach students who may benefit from a more hands-on or practical learning experience.
- Allow students to become actively involved in the learning process.
- Encourage students to critically think about and analyze information themselves, rather than being passive recipients.
How to Incorporate Multicultural Education Activities Into Your Classroom
- Consider teaching techniques that increase the success and effectiveness of the activity.
- Encouraging all students to participate (especially during discussion).
- Plan adequate time to process the activity.
- Ask open-ended questions.
- Foster a feeling of emotional safety in your classroom by respecting every student's opinion encouraging all students to be respectful of one another.
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Activities That Foster Cultural Sensitivity
- This website provides downloadable PDF files that teachers can use in their classroom to help foster understanding of cultures and increasing cultural sensitivity.
- With readings, quizzes, facts sheets, data bases of relevant movies, and activities this site provides educators with tools to foster dialogue among students.
- This website provides lesson plans that can be adapted for any age group. These lesson plans include topics on defining culture, patterns of culture, and application of cultural knowledge.
- This site reviews and organizes cultural resources for children. Their library of information includes books, language textbooks, videos, audiocassettes, software, CD-ROMs, dolls, games, posters, crafts, t-shirts and resource materials for parents and teachers.
- With information divided up by month, holiday, and country, this site provide educators a searchable index of many of the major world holidays.
- This site provides internet links to virtually any culture or region of the world.
- Organized by country, this site provide educators with many resources for researching cultures and regions.
Activities That Foster Critical Thinking About Diversity
- With readings, quizzes, facts sheets, data bases of relevant movies, and activities this site provides educators with tools to foster dialogue among their students.
Lesson plans for teaching tolerance
- This website provides many resources for teaching about tolerance. Topics of lesson plans include Sept 11, respect for differences, and language diversity.
- This website provides a variety of multicultural education lesson plans. Lesson plans are geared toward younger age groups, but may be adapted as needed.
Lesson Plan for Teaching about Stereotypes
- This website contains lesson plans, discussion topics, and other classroom activities about stereotyping.
General Multicultural Education Activities
- This website provides information, activities, lesson plans, and classroom resources about many topics in multicultural education.