Grade Level: High School & Beyond

What is Your Hope?

This lesson can be used either in a classroom or online. Description: A Missouri middle school put the question “What is your hope?” on a chalkboard outside school before people arrived. They made a video of the ways students and teachers responded to the question. For this session, you can begin with the video (available … What is Your Hope?

Baboon on the Moon

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This lesson plan can be used either in a classroom or online. Plot Summary: This six-minute film is about a baboon who lives alone on the Moon. Wordless and moving, the video portrays the baboon as full of longing for the Earth, struggling with feelings of sadness and loneliness. Looking wistfully out at Earth, he … Baboon on the Moon

Exploring Gender Stereotypes

It can be helpful (though not totally necessary) for students to be acquainted with the following terminology: Sex: a person’s sex refers to their biological characteristics, namely their genitals and reproductive organs. When a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not conform to either male or female, they are referred to … Exploring Gender Stereotypes

Fairness, Equality, & Equity

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Fairness, Equality, & Equity – Different Ways to Think about Distributive Justice This lesson plan is accessible through the Lesson Attachment link above.

Ethics – Privacy

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This lesson plan is accessible in the Lesson Attachment area above. The open letter from Apple regarding technology to break into iPhones referred to in the lesson plan is available on the Resources tab.

Trolley Problem Ethics, Part 2

trolley car

This lesson plan can be used to expand on the thinking undertaken in the “Trolley Problem Ethics” lesson. It is accessible using the Lesson Attachment above.