These short animated gifs provide middle school teachers with support materials that can supplement lessons centered around Tolerance.org's Social Justice Standards. In the animated stories, bias based on race, gender, religion, ableism, and ageism is confronted. Choosing to confront bigotry and hate takes heroic powers.



What's inside:

  • Animated gifs for anti-bias education

  • Social Justice Standards number indexing

  • If you have Social Justice concepts you would like animated, let us know – we are continuously adding content

  • For 6-8th grade

About the Creators:

A collaborative production by the students and faculty of Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University as part of The EPIC Project (epicsite.org)

  • Each student is credited under their animation.

  • The animations were created as an assignment in a Sophomore level course at Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University called Digital Imaging II.

  • The KCAD faculty is Susan Bonner.

How to Share:

  • Animated Gifs can be shown in the site or copied and pasted into your own site, social media or presentation

  • Please credit the creators and this site.

Cost and Security

  • Free to use and share

  • No In-App purchases

  • No personal data collected


Compatible with this media:

  • MAC desktop and laptop computers – all browsers

  • PC desktop and laptop computers – all browsers

  • Apple Tablets

  • Android Tablets


For Educators:

There is Explanatory text accompanying each animation to help educators

These animations were inspired by the Social Justice Standards created by the Southern Poverty Law Center that can be seen at TeachingTolerance.org

Resources:


The educational material addresses the following intelligence types:

  • Visual (spatial):pictures, images, and spatial understanding.

  • Social (interpersonal): group learning occurs while students view with the teacher in class and explain concepts to each other by relating the animated action to the science concept.

  • Solitary (intrapersonal): self-study