This is an educator's sourcebook of activities to help students understand and change inequalities based on race, gender, class, age, language, sexual orientation, physical/mental ability, and religion. The activities also promote respect for diversity and interpersonal equality among students, fostering a classroom that is participatory, cooperative, and democratic. An essential resource for teachers, leaders in professional development, and curriculum specialists. Features of the book include ready-to-implement learning activities in both traditional and interdisciplinary curriculum areas; and inclusive framework for thinking about diversity and responding practically to various forms of difference in classrooms; a variety of lesson styles including role plays, case studies, dilemma stories, cooperative learning activities, interviews, data analysis, and creative and expository writing.

1. Recognizing roadblocks to equality -- 2. Teaching for equality -- 3. Building trust and communication -- 4. Developing skills for creative cooperation -- 5. Expanding our vistas: our lives to others' lives -- 6. New words: new perspectives -- 7. Discrimination: prices and choices -- 8. Investigating your environment -- 9. More environmental influences and their effects -- 10. Things can be different -- 11. We can make changes -- Resource section: Integrating Open Minds to Equality into your curriculum -- Forms of discrimination addressed in lessons -- Annotated bibliography.