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Forms of Unfair Treatment Explorer

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About this MicroSim

Forms of Unfair Treatment Explorer is an interactive MicroSim for this health-education textbook.

Students classify realistic middle-school scenarios into direct, subtle, or institutional unfair treatment, building a shared vocabulary for recognizing unfairness in its different forms.

Use the controls in the panel below the drawing to interact with the model, then talk through what changed and why. The MicroSim is width-responsive and can be embedded in any course page with the iframe shown above.

Bloom's Taxonomy level: Understand (L2) — classify, distinguish, exemplify

Lesson Plan

Audience

This MicroSim is designed for Grades 6-8. For the K-3 bands the teacher typically drives the activity on a shared screen; older students can explore the MicroSim independently.

Learning Objective

Students classify realistic middle-school scenarios into direct, subtle, or institutional unfair treatment, building a shared vocabulary for recognizing unfairness in its different forms.

This activity targets Bloom's Understand (L2) (classify, distinguish, exemplify).

Suggested Use (about 10 minutes)

  1. Warm up (2 min). Ask students what they already know about the topic and let one volunteer describe what they see on the screen.
  2. Model it (3 min). Demonstrate the interaction once, thinking aloud so students hear the reasoning behind each choice.
  3. Guided practice (3 min). Invite students to try the interaction and to predict what will happen before they act.
  4. Discuss (2 min). Ask why the result came out the way it did, connecting the on-screen result back to the learning objective above.

Check for Understanding

Have each student (or pair) explain their result in one sentence, using the vocabulary from this chapter. Look for reasoning that matches the Understand-level objective rather than a lucky guess.

Specification

The full specification below was extracted from Chapter 5: Stigma, Bias, and Brain Health.

Type: microsim
**sim-id:** forms-of-unfair-treatment-explorer<br/>
**Library:** p5.js<br/>
**Status:** Specified

Bloom Taxonomy: Understand (L2)
Bloom Taxonomy Verb: classify, distinguish, exemplify

Learning objective: Students classify realistic middle-school scenarios into direct, subtle, or institutional unfair treatment, building a shared vocabulary for recognizing unfairness in its different forms.

Layout: A deck of 10 short scenario cards (e.g., "A student is told they can't join a club because of their accent," "A teacher only calls on certain students during discussion," "A school dress code bans hairstyles worn mostly by one ethnic group") with three click zones labeled Direct, Subtle, and Institutional.

Interactive controls: Click-to-sort each card into a zone; immediate feedback confirms the category and explains why in one supportive sentence; a running tally tracks progress; "Reset Deck" button.

Default parameters: Deck order randomized each session; feedback panel starts empty until a card is sorted.

Instructional Rationale: Classifying scenarios into named categories is Understand-level, so a sorting task with explanatory feedback is used rather than a passive list, helping students recognize unfair treatment even when it is not obvious or direct.

Implementation notes: p5.js. Scenario data stored as an array of objects with text, correct category, and explanation string. Responsive canvas that reflows cards on window resize.

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