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Stereotypes and Discrimination: How Unfair Ideas Hurt

  • Grade 6
  • Physical and Health Education
  • 1 min 12 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC6-PH-14

A chain of three cards shows a group of people who are each different being painted as "all the same" (a stereotype, an unfair idea). It then shows one of them left out of a game (discrimination, an unfair action) and the harm that follows: feeling sad, alone or less confident, stress and lost chances. The arrows then break as three ways to help appear (get to know each person, speak up if it is safe, ask a trusted adult), and the video ends on the recap that stereotypes can lead to discrimination, which hurts.

Concept: Stereotypes and discrimination: how unfair ideas hurt people

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The question this lesson answers

How can an unfair idea about a group of people end up hurting someone?

Picture a group of people who share one thing, but every person in it is different.

Transcript

What the lesson says

How can an unfair idea about a group of people end up hurting someone?

Picture a group of people who share one thing, but every person in it is different.

A stereotype is an idea that everyone in a group is the same.

It is an unfair idea, because it ignores who each person really is.

Treating someone unfairly because of the group they belong to is called discrimination.

For example, someone might be left out of a game because of a stereotype.

Discrimination hurts the person it is aimed at.

They may feel sad, alone or less confident.

Over time, it can lead to stress and lost chances.

You can help break this chain.

Get to know each person for who they really are.

If you see someone treated unfairly, speak up if it is safe.

You can always ask a trusted adult for help.

Stereotypes are unfair ideas that can lead to discrimination, and discrimination hurts people.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 6

Physical and Health Education, Social and community health: consequences of bullying, stereotyping, and discriminationBC6-PH-14

Previous: Bullying: The Harm It Does and How a Bystander Can Help

British Columbia, Grade 7

Physical and Health Education, Social and community health: consequences of bullying, stereotyping, and discriminationBC7-PH-17

Previous: Bullying: The Harm It Does and How a Bystander Can Help

This lesson is also listed in Grade 7.

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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