Goals
Brief description of the issue
We learn gender stereotypes from a very young age, especially through marketing strategies and advertisement used for selling toys. Therefore, gender stereotypes have to be broken down even at the elementary level if we want to give students all the chances to avoid being caught by the rabbit hole of misogynistic and masculinist content of online influencers. Taking a critical look at gender stereotypes is also part of Québec’s sex education program. To meet its goals, concrete activities aiming at challenging gender stereotypes can be very helpful and spark interesting discussion with your group.
ACCM, an organization that provides information about and contact information for various health services in Montreal, has created a bank of free sexual health and education lesson plans adapted for elementary and high school teachers in Québec that you can access online.
As gender stereotypes are a big part of the sex education program in Québec, very interesting activities can be facilitated to break down gender stereotypes and meet the goals of the program at the same time.
Click on the links below to download the lesson plan and the handout for students.