The document discusses how society often views certain jobs and activities as being strictly for one gender or the other. It has students visualize and discuss the types of people they associate with different occupations. It then has students discuss the stereotypes they have heard about what girls and boys are like. The document aims to get students thinking about where these stereotypes come from and how to stop perpetuating them, quoting Gandhi's message about being the change you wish to see.

1. The Trouble with Sameness
Grades 3 - 4
Town School for Boys
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2. Picture a…
quickly visualize who comes to mind when you
think of the following:
• Police Officer
• House Cleaner
• Fire Fighter
• Babysitter/Nanny
• Mechanic
• Doctor
• Teacher
• Garbage Picker-Upper
• Scientist
• Basketball Player
• Singer
• Model
• Criminal
• Dancer
• Construction Worker
• Lawyer
• Receptionist
• Nurse
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3. Let’s compare!
• What similarities do you see?
• Why do you think so many
people think so similarly?
• If someone DIDN’T see what
most people saw, why was
that, do you think?
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4. Details, Details
• Turn to nearby neighbors and talk
about all the things you have been
told, what you have seen, or what you
have read about what girls are, what
they like, what they don’t like, what
activities do they do, what they wear,
what they become when they grow up,
etc.
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5. Details, Details
• Turn to nearby neighbors and talk
about all the things you have been
told, what you have seen, or what you
have read about what boys are, what
they like, what they don’t like, what
activities do they do, what they wear,
what they become when they grow up,
etc.
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6. How Did We Get There
From Here?
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7. How Do We Do It To
Ourselves?
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8. What It’s Called in Adult World
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9. How Do We Stop It?
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10. “Be the change you wish to
see in the world.”
Gandhi
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11. Have a Great Day!
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