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Building a "Toolbox for Difference"

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This project helps students connect their studies of race and gender with their sense of civic obligation and their desire to help prevent the reoccurrence of violence and intolerance. In her directions to her students, Adrianne Billingham, an educator at Lexington High School (MA) who developed this concluding activity, writes, "...as we finish up our examination of Race, Gender & Human Behavior, we need to consider how to take the information we have learned about what humans have and continue to do with 'a difference' in order to encourage the acceptance of difference, and to halt the destructive hatred many people employ in dealing with a difference.