The Trouble with Stereotypes (PDF): An activity that
provides upper elementary school students an opportunity to examine how people develop stereotypes and to consider how stereotypes can lead to prejudice and other hate behaviors.
Anna Collins Trest, director of the South Mississippi Writing Project, finds she can
lead upper elementary school students to better understand the concept of «reflection» if she anchors the discussion in the concrete and helps students establish categories for their reflective responses.
Although The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me may appear at first to be for younger elementary school students, I have read this story to my Grade 5 students numerous times and used the projects found on this page
with upper elementary school students with great success.
Balancing the Good and the Bad (PDF): An activity that
provides upper elementary school students an opportunity to investigate some of the bad and hateful things that happen in society as well as good or helpful things that people do to fight hate.
The Education Trust analysis found that reading passages generally were on the level of National Geographic — high school level prose, but accessible to middle and
upper elementary school students.
Although The Enormous Crocodile may appear at first to be for younger elementary school students, I have read this story to my Grade 5 students numerous times and used the projects found on this page with
upper elementary school students with great success.
Although Esio Trot may appear at first to be for younger elementary school students, I have read this story to my Grade 5 students numerous times and used the projects found on this page with
upper elementary school students with great success.
For example, she is co-principal investigator of the U.S. Department of Education (ED)- funded effectiveness trial of Tools for Getting Along, a social problem - solving curriculum for
upper elementary school students.