This panel discussion was an impromptu talk given by six 6th grade girls in response to the prompt: Talk about what PE is like with boys. This video talk was the final piece to a project assignment that ended a six-week unit on gender. We have been studying gender issues in class during this time, working primarily in same-sex class groupings. Girls have talked and written openly and freely about what it's like to be a girl in school with other girls and with boys. Boys have discussed and written about being boys.

This panel discussion was an impromptu talk given by six 6th grade boys in response to the prompt: Talk about what PE is like with girls. This video talk was the final piece to a project assignment that ended a six-week unit on gender. We have been studying gender issues in class during this time, working primarily in same-sex class groupings. Girls have talked and written openly and freely about what it's like to be a girl in school with other girls and with boys. Boys have discussed and written about being boys.

This video skit by five sixth grade boys was their final project work that
ended a six-week unit on gender. Their prompt was simple: Write, rehearse,
then act a skit that reveals a common problem and common outcome to that
problem for 6th grade boys. We have been studying gender issues in class
during this time, working primarily in same-sex class groupings. Girls have
talked and written openly and freely about what it's like to be a girl in
school with other girls and with boys. Boys have discussed and written about

This video skit by four sixth grade girls was their final project work that
ended a six-week unit on gender. Their prompt was simple: Write, rehearse,
then act a skit that reveals a common problem and common outcome to that
problem for 6th grade girls. We have been studying gender issues in class
during this time, working primarily in same-sex class groupings. Girls have
talked and written openly and freely about what it's like to be a girl in
school with other girls and with boys. Boys have discussed and written about

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