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  1. Blue Eyes Brown Eyes

    The experiment, known as Blue Eyes Brown Eyes experiment, is regarded as an eye-opening way for children to learn about racism and discrimination. ... Fourteen years later, the students featured in The Eye of the Storm reunited and discussed their experiences with Elliott. Many of them noted that when they hear prejudice and discrimination from ...

  2. When Racism Comes to Class: Social-Emotional Learning Lessons From Jane

    The Eye of the Storm. Elliott continued to do the experiment with her students every year. Word got around, and the exercise became the subject of national attention when ABC made a documentary about it, The Eye of the Storm. Although some were amazed by the effect the experiment had on students, others were deeply critical, saying Elliott's ...

  3. The Eye of the Storm

    Available to buy from: http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/products/the-eye-of-the-storm-17/The original blue eyes - brown eyes experiment in a junior school.The ...

  4. Jane Elliott

    Jane Elliott (née Jennison; born November 30, 1933) is an American diversity educator.As a schoolteacher, she became known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise, which she first conducted with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The publication of compositions which the children had written about the experience in the local ...

  5. Introduction

    Introduction. January 1, 2003. On the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in April 1968, Jane Elliott's third graders from the small, all-white town of Riceville, Iowa, came to class ...

  6. Revisiting 'The Eye of the Storm': The Subtleties of Gender Bias

    THE SUBTLETIES OF GENDER BIAS*. The award-winning documentary "The Eye of the Storm" has been used in the classroom to sensitize students to the dynamics of discrimination and prejudice. We argue that instructors can guide their classes beyond the conventional approach to this important teaching tool. While intending to focus on discrimina ...

  7. Frequently Asked Questions

    In 1985 Peters produced A Class Divided for FRONTLINE. This film included original footage from Eye of the Storm and also chronicled a 1984 mini-reunion of Elliott's third graders, now young ...

  8. Jane Elliot's Essay: The Eye Of The Storm

    The Eye of the Storm Jane Elliot was a teacher for a class of eight year olds at a school in Riceville, Iowa. Racism was more of a problem in 1968 than it is today, and Jane was trying to demonstrate to her students what it felt like to be a black person in their society at that time. Her experiment was ran very successfully as her students ...

  9. The Eye of the Storm (1970 film)

    The Eye of the Storm is a 1970 American television documentary featuring schoolteacher Jane Elliott conducting her "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" exercise in discrimination, in her third-grade classroom at Riceville Elementary School in Riceville, Iowa.Riceville, a small town near the Minnesota border, is almost entirely white; in that context, young children had little understanding of the concept of ...

  10. Eye of the Storm [Documentary] --1970 -- Jane Elliot

    Here is a documentary/real live events of "Eye of the Storm." Jane Elliot teaches 3rd grade class from a small town in Iowa based on social events. Frontlin...

  11. PDF A Guide to THE EYE OF THE STORM & A CLASS DIVIDED

    In The Eye of the Storm, a 25 minute film, a classroom situation ... This documentary explores the nature or prejudice in a dramatic primary school classroom experiment conducted in a small Midwestern town in the United States - a town without ghettos, blacks or campus unrest. It demonstrates how quickly wholesome,

  12. A Class Divided

    The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring ...

  13. The Eye of the Storm with Jane Elliott

    This historical program follows a third-grade teacher's classroom experiment on discrimination and prejudice and demonstrates the ease with which individuals submit to discriminatory beliefs and actions. Search streaming video, audio, and text content for academic, public, and K-12 institutions. ... The Eye of the Storm with Jane Elliott ...

  14. A Class Divided

    A Class Divided. " A Class Divided " is a 1985 episode of the PBS series Frontline. Directed by William Peters, the episode profiles the Iowa schoolteacher Jane Elliott and her class of third graders, who took part in a class exercise about discrimination and prejudice in 1970 and reunited in the present day to recall the experience.

  15. Ramblings: The Eye of the Storm

    The Eye of the Storm, a documentary from 1970, is an important lesson in understanding discrimination. ... which is also known as the Blue Eyes — Brown Eyes experiment. The exercise was first ...

  16. Jane Elliot's famous classroom experiment: How eye color helped her

    When the experiment was over, Elliott asked the students to write down what they had learned. One student revealed: "The people in Mrs. Elliott's room who had brown eyes got to discriminate against the people who had blue eyes. I have brown eyes. I felt like hitting them if I wanted to. I got to have five minutes extra of recess."

  17. 15 Antiracism Lessons From The Jane Elliott Experiment That Are

    RELATED: If You Think You Aren't Racist, Watch This Blue/Brown-Eye Experiment Jane Elliott's experiment lasted for two days. The first day, she told her class that blue-eyed people were considered ...

  18. The Eye of the Storm

    Teaching Social Justice Issues in Schools <br />By: Alyssa Kamienik

  19. The Eye Of The Storm Experiment

    The Eye Of The Storm Experiment. Despite popular belief, judgement based on the appearance of someone else's skin, hair, and/or facial structure is still very prevalent. In 1970, in small town Riceville, Iowa, Mrs. Elliot decided to present an experiment she had started previously with a third grade class after the shooting of Martin Luther ...

  20. The Eye of the Storm (1970)

    THE EYE OF THE STORM. Directed by. William Peters. United States, 1970. Documentary, TV Movie, Short. 25. Synopsis. An examination of elementary teacher Jane Elliott's educational experiment about discrimination, which she conducts an unforgettable lesson with her third-grade class in Riceville, Iowa.

  21. We Are Repeating The Discrimination Experiment Every Day, Says ...

    Elliott created the blue-eyes/brown-eyes classroom exercise in 1968 to teach students about racism. Today, she says, it's still playing out as the U.S. reckons with racial injustice.

  22. The Eye of the Storm

    Fascinating social experiment done on some third graders by a teacher freshly upset by the news of Martin Luther King's assassination. To teach her all-white Iowa kids what it feels like to be colored and unfairly treated, one day she decided to give her blue-eyed students special treatment while brown-eyed students were treated as stupid and unworthy of praise.