Elementary School

What’s My Line?, 1996. Poster set with activities and worksheets for students of all ages

The Helpers: A View of our Helpfulness, 1990. “The Helpers” looks at our needs to act both helpless and helpful. It explores what these needs do to ourselves and to those we try to help. It surveys the experiences of trying to help others change and the failings that go with those attempts. While it communicates the frustrations of helping others it explores ways to get beyond those frustrations.

Real People, Real Jobs, 1986. Level: K-adult. Laminated posters of women working in nontraditional careers. These include computer service Technician, Landscaper, Drafter, Aircraft Mechanic, Chemical Laboratory Technician, Television Technician, Apprentice Electrician, Mechanical Engineering Technician, Respiratory Therapist, and Meter Technician.

School Volunteer Resource Guide,Wisconsin Public Television in partnership with the Department of Public Instruction, 1995. Level: K-12. Volunteer-A-Thon is a program developed in Wisconsin to start a school volunteer program or enhance an existing program. Materials include lots of ideas, sample materials, and references for additional resources.

Multicultural Discovery Activities for the Elementary Grades,Elizabeth Crosby Stull, 1995. 400 ready to use interdisciplinary activities plus more than 150 reproducible pages divided into 10 sections- Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Caribbean, and other islands, Eastern Europe, Europe, Latin America, the United States and native American culture. Includes information and activities involving folktales, celebrations, arts and crafts, games, songs, dances, foods, geography, and map study.

Ready to Use Multicultural Activities for Primary Children, Saundrah Clark Grevious, 1993. Level: Grades K-3. This source book includes hundreds of ready to use activities. Organized around three themes – Self-esteem, Mutual Respect, and Multicultural Contributions – reproducible formates are accompanied by complete teacher directions.

Multicultural Mathematics, Inderdisciplinary Cooperative Learning Activities, Claudia Zaslavsky, 1992. Fifty-eight reproducible activities based on mathematics problems from all over the world prepare students to be creative problem solvers and global thinkers. Emphasizes numbers and patterns of many different cultures, such as the use of symmetry in some well-known symbols; comparing numbers from ancient civilizations; using graphs to chart population growth. Each includes explanations of mathematical concepts and problem solving activities.

Quit it!, Merle Froschl and Nancy Mullin-Rindler, Educational Equity Concepts, Inc.,1998. Level: Grades K-3. This book addresses classroom teasing and bullying and provides teaches in grades K-3 proactive, gender- sensitive approaches to addressing teasing and bullying. There are three themes: Creating Our rules, Talking about Teasing and Bullying, and Exploring Courage. Each of these themes contains the following elements: goals followed by a Student will Learn section, Background, Sequential Lessons with activities; Problem-solving including scenarios to at out, Literature Connection, and Connecting with Families.

The Girls Guide to Life: How to Take Charge of the Issues that Affect You, Catherine Dee, 1997. Level: Ages 9 up. This book has great, practical, accessible and often funny advice for all girls on personal issues, life at school, and the role of women in our society. There are short essays by girls and women, lots of lists of “things to Do”, wonderful cartoons, inspiring quotes, a great poem by Maya Angelous and more lists of more resources. Topics include: self-esteem, negative body image, beauty pageants, personal safety, math myths, women’s work, harassment, women in politics, advertising and the secrets of success.