The following are general character education lesson plans. These are intended more for a general overview and introductions to culture and cultural perspectives.

• Americans: To understand another culture, you first have to understand your own. This lesson asks students to evaluate their own culture as if they are seeing it for the first time.

• Cultural Perspective: This lesson is based on the idea that people really do see the world in fundamentally different ways and behave as they do because of the things they believe in and value That in order to understand another culture, you first have to understand your own and beliefs vary from person to person and culture to culture.

• Generalizations: This lesson introduces students to the concept of generalization as it applies to cultural stereotyping. The goal is to have students challenge generalizations made about people, insist on knowing the evidence that supports these, and be willing to modify their own generalizations when confronted by evidence showing them to be false. It is important for students to understand that almost all generalizations, particularly those about people and other cultures, need to be qualified.

• Window Into Another Culture: Students will describe the vastness of the gulf that can lie between two cultures— both in values and in communicating those values.