This book has a lot of different illustrations with children as main characters asking the same questions.  This book gives the opportunity for children to step back and analyze others and themselves.  It will help foster connections between others as we identify ourselves as well. 

This book celebrates the different abilities that children and people may have.  It encourages children to ask questions if we meet someone that is different from us and create a positive learning experience.  It also talks about different challenges some children may face but also looks at the extraordinary characteristics they have as well. 

This book has a message about how coming together and using your words to make sure issues are resolved.  This book is a fun way to show children how speaking up or writing notes can leave an impact on someone and have eventually have to listen.  It’s a good thing to always stand up for yourself and others.

This book is about two little girls who both have a stuffed animal and enjoy the park.  They go to the park and find each other and are a little shy to play with each other due to the language barrier.  They both speak different languages but at the end of the day, they are able to push past that barrier and realize they have many things in common and become good friends by playing together.

This book about two children who write to each other and are in different places countries.  As they write to each other, they soon realize that they both like the same things.  Even though they are different people, and they live in different places, they are still very similar.

This video was a TED Talk about a woman leader realizing her own biased.  She then goes on to talk about how she feels she supports woman but then has an unconscious bias and makes us realize that we need to think about our own personal situations to see if we are truly not biased. 

This article is about how children can learn prejudice through adults in their life.  It goes on to explain about how important nonverbal communication is and also gives some strategies on what we can do to ensure that children are learning to not have biases. 

This article explains how the key component of empathy is to be positive and be kind.  It also talks about different strategies that one can use with children according to their age to help guide them through the process of developing empathy towards others.

This catchy song helps recognize the characteristics of empathy.  It also goes through the steps of how one can notice and understand other people feelings and also stating how important it is to acknowledge one’s feelings and ideas but also others. 

This book about questions and concerns that may come up about different physical disabilities.  Children are very curious and tend to ask many questions when they see things that they don’t know about.  This book explores how children with physical disabilities encounter their daily life and help others understand their challenges in a simple and reassuring way. 

This article breaks down the many different concepts of disabilities that can be talked about and learned.  It explains how there are disabilities that are visible and some that may not be so visible but that are still valid and why we need to understand that everyone is different and that they are not a bad person.  It also gives some tips on what we can do if we suspect that a loved one may have a disability and how we can help.

This article has different activities that can be done in the classroom or at home to look at the family structure.  There are many different types of families all around us and taking the time to recognize the features of every unique family in a fun way can help children learn about others. 

This short film starts off by children talking about different types of people that can be a family.  They also go on and talk about their own type of family that they have and how they feel.  Then there are some clips of the parents and families together talking about how they feel being together and different activities that they might do together.

This song is all about being able to just express yourself anyway that you want.  There are many different examples that they song gives about not just how you dress but what you do.  Anything that makes you happy is the way that you should express and carry yourself.