Kindness Kit #8: Celebrating Diversity and Teaching Tolerance
The following resources can be used to help supplement your service learning experience
Diversity Activities from PennState Extension.
Lesson plans from Poets.org that feature poems exploring the themes of social justice, identity, and human rights.
“Everyone is Different” song by Lanny Sherwin.
“Color of Me” song from Sesame Street.
Diversity Activities for Young Learners from the Curriculum Corner.
Talking to Young Children About Bias and Prejudice from ADL (Anti-Defamation League).
Tolerance.org has a great article on looking at race and racial identity in children’s books.
Teaching Tolerance is a great website with hundreds of resources (lesson plans, texts, videos, etc.) that are all about teaching tolerance to youth.
I’m Like You, You’re Like Me: A Book About Understanding and Appreciating Each Other by Cindy Gainer, Illustrated by Miki Sakamoto.
Common Sense Media’s list of books with characters of color.