Blues+eyes+or+brown+eyes+-+which+is+the+best?

Aim: Students learn about people around them as well as about themselves. __**Blue eyes/Brown eyes experiment.**__ Click on this link for a lesson idea on racism: []

__Overview__ The lesson starts with an activity where students are given either a red card or a green card as they enter the room. You then tell them a new school policy is in place and that all the green card holders have certain privileges etc. etc. and that the red card holders do not. The idea is that they experience how it feels to be discriminated against. You may also like to focus on an experiment that was carried out after Martin Luther King was assassinated. Students in a class were split into two groups - blue eyed students & brown eyed students. Those with blue eyes were told they were smarter, nicer, cleaner etc. Over time the originally not so able blue eyed students started to perform better and the originally smarter brown eyed students started to deteriorate. That's the general idea anyway. There is also a long-ish video of the experiment you may want to show part/all of.