The document outlines a 5-day lesson plan to teach diversity and acceptance of differences to a 1st grade classroom. The class has 19 students from various racial and cultural backgrounds, as well as some with disabilities. Over the week, students will read a book about differences, discuss their own families, create self-portraits, write essays, and share photos of their families to help them feel comfortable with their own identities and appreciate others. The teacher will use visual aids, art projects, discussions, and technology like Prezi to engage students and meet the objective of helping them understand and embrace diversity.

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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.