Unit plan powerpoint final

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Diversity
Emily Jarvie

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Analyze the learner
In my 1st grade classroom there are:
 19 kids, 7 girls and 12 boys.
9 African Americans, 2 Latino Americans, and 7
white Americans.
one student in a wheelchair with no IEP, and
three students have ADHD.
All the students like to learn visually.

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Objective
After my lesson on diversity my students will:
 Feel more comfortable with what they look like
 Feel comfortable with what their family looks like
 Finish the rest of the reading on their own for the first time and
fully understand the concept
 Stay active in the conversation and completing the activities
My students will do this with 98% accuracy by
the end of the 5 day week.

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Day by Day Breakdown
 Monday- read half of the book It’s Okay to be Different by Todd
Parr, and talk about how we are all different, I would like a
discussion about how our families are different
 Tuesday- talk about Todd Parr’s art in the book and how all the
people look different
 Wednesday- do an art activity making cut-outs of all the heads in
the class and color them different colors, and hang them up in the
class
 Thursday- write a short essay explaining what family is to them
and why it is important to have family, ask the students to bring in
a picture of their family at home or school family
 Friday- read the second half of the book “popcorn style” and share
the photo they brought in

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Use of Technology
 Monday- the book It’s okay to be Different as a ‘Big Book’
 Tuesday- a Prezi on Todd Parr’s art and different art similar to his
 Wednesday- A poster visual of what our art will look like,
construction paper and art supplies
 Thursday- A visual on Microsoft Word of the question for the essay
and student journals
 Friday- 8 books of Its Okay to be Different

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Work Cited
 Lesson Plan #3676. Diversity of Families. (2006, February 14).
Retrieved September 19, 2014, from
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/3676.html
 Price, K. (2014, January 1). It's Okay to Be Different: Teaching
Diversity With Todd Parr - ReadWriteThink. Retrieved September 19,
2014.
 Todd Parr. (n.d.). Retrieved September 19, 2014.