Students explore prejudice and stereotypes through a fun thinking skills activity, before creating stereotypical images of boys and girls, and/or teenagers. They challenge negative stereotypes through role-play and identify prejudice in the news. This lesson is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. To download all the resources for this lesson and for more equality and human rights materials, visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

This assembly gets students to appreciate that with freedom comes a diverse range of individuals. It explores the benefits of diversity and the need for everyone to respect and celebrate difference. This assembly is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

Students explore the history and benefits of the UK’s diversity before celebrating difference by creating a pop group for Diversity Factor. This lesson is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. To download all the resources for this lesson and for more equality and human rights materials, visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

This assembly introduces human rights by exploring what freedom is and is not. It then highlights the importance of human rights by explaining that they were created to prevent the awful atrocities of the holocaust from ever happening again. The Human Rights Act is introduced to make students aware that laws exist to help to protect their human rights. This assembly is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

Through an interactive marketplace activity, students discover that human rights belong to everybody and that every human right is needed for human beings to live and grow. This lesson is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. To download all the resources for this lesson and for more equality and human rights materials, visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

Students explore the different sides to identity through a fun Guess Who game and an activity that identifies the shared and unique characteristics of the class. This lesson is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. To download all the resources for this lesson and for more equality and human rights materials, visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

Students explore and define different types of discrimination before analysing examples of discrimination in some provided lesson videos or working as TV reporters presenting discrimination cases to the class. This lesson is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. To download all the resources for this lesson and for more equality and human rights materials, visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

Students explore how our attitudes and opinions are influenced, and review news headlines and articles to discover how the media can sensationalise facts and also get information wrong. This lesson is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. To download all the resources for this lesson and for more equality and human rights materials, visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

This lesson plans get students to develop empathy and consider the impact of their actions on other people’s feelings through script work or hot seating. This lesson is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. To download all the resources for this lesson and for more equality and human rights materials, visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

This lesson plan gets students to learn that actions have consequences by observing positive and negative scenarios in some provided lesson videos. They explore choices and action that can be taken to try and make things better. This lesson is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. To download all the resources for this lesson and for more equality and human rights materials, visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

Students compare inequalities of the past to society today, they discuss what equality means through a speed discussion activity and become equality experts by taking part in a class quiz about the Equality Act 2010. This lesson is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. To download all the resources for this lesson and for more equality and human rights materials, visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

Students analyse real-life legal case studies to discover that human rights laws operate at different levels and to learn what action individuals can take to make sure human rights are protected. This lesson is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. To download all the resources for this lesson and for more equality and human rights materials, visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

Students learn that some human rights can be limited and restricted by analysing a real-life legal case. They work in the role of Head Teacher deciding if human rights should be limited or not. This lesson is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. To download all the resources for this lesson and for more equality and human rights materials, visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

This urban music style video, set in a careers lesson, highlights the issues associated to gender discrimination. Beth is a young girl, who voices her ambition to become a plumber, only to be dismissed by her teacher and heckled by her peers. In Beth's imagination, gender stereotypes are reversed to highlight the absurdity of these labels. This video is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

This Crimewatch style video reveals the consequences of racism and how low level bullying can escalate. Mohammed joins a new school and is bullied by a group of students for being 'different'. The bullying culminates in a violent accident that leads to lots of discussion around whether or not Mohammed should tell a teacher. This lesson is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

This high intensity and fast moving short film reveals the negative consequences of disability-related bullying. Dylan suffers from epilepsy and his peers taunt him in class, around school and online. Tanya plays a role that adds a twist to the story and highlights the issues with judging people. This lesson is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

Students promote and help to protect equality and human rights for everyone by creating a visual display of talking heads in school or pledging to take some form of action that will create a positive difference to the community. This lesson is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. To download all the resources for this lesson and for more equality and human rights materials, visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect

This training video from the Equality and Human Rights Commission is in two parts. Part 1 features experts explaining what equality and human rights are, how they have developed over the years, and the current laws that are relevant to young people and teachers. Part 2 demonstrates effective teaching techniques that can be used to deliver the topics in an engaging way. This video is part of the Equal Rights, Equal Respect teacher training and education resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Visit: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equalrightsequalrespect