Grade 3: What are gender stereotypes and why do they exist?

Third graders have a gender stereotyping mini-unit prior to reading the book Marty McGuire. First, they brainstorm a list of words and phrases typically associated with boys and girls and then discuss why these things are assigned to a specific gender. Next, they look at advertisements and consider what messages the advertisements are sending. The students find examples of stereotypes in the ads and then recreate the ads so that they are no longer gender-stereotypical.
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