Explore the concepts of stereotyping and bias. 0701.5.14

Links verified on 3/22/2010

1. Evaluating Media for Bias - A checklist when using media in the classroom
2. Promoting Diversity in the Classroom and School Library through Social Action - lesson plan - students use their findings to promote diversity by creating paired books or text sets that match stereotypical portrayals with balanced and diverse texts.
3. Stereotyping and Bias: The Three Little Pigs - lesson plan - This lesson helps students recognize and understand stereotyping and bias in literature and film by looking at representations of wolves
4. Understanding stereotypes - lesson plan - categorizing things or people is a natural human inclination; however, people often make assumptions about groups of people they don’t even know