Ways we are Alike/ Ways we are Different

Celebrate your class's diversity with this Venn diagram template. A perfect resource for building a classroom community at the beginning of the school year, pupils are able to learn about their peers while discovering what makes them...

How can we locate places? Maps, of course! Expose second graders to the tools available in maps and discuss how these tools can help people find locations. Students also look at communities, including what makes a community and the...

Beautiful photographs of the national parks, and a variety of other geographical locations in Utah, are found in this presentation. It begins with photos of the Great Basin, the Colorado Plateau, and the Rocky Mountains, where three...

Young learners listen to or read a story about how we are all the same and yet we are all different. They share information about themselves with the class. Young scholars graph the class according to their different attributes, likes,...

A Thanksgiving-themed interactive boosts addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Using the keyboard's arrows, players navigate a turkey through a maze, gobbling up as many berries as possible without getting tagged by...

Students discuss the differences between boys and girls.  In this acceptance instructional activity, students view pictures of boys and girls and use a Venn Diagram to chart their differences.  Students discuss boy activities and girl...

First graders explain that everybody is unique in their own way by participating in this lively, art and language based series of lesson plans. They would greatly benefit from engaging in these plans in the beginning of the year as an...

Students read a multicultural book called "This Is the Way We Go to School" by Edith Baer and Steve Bjorhman. They become culturally aware of the different nationalities around the world and different ways that they may do things on a...

Students explore the concept of landmarks.  In this landmark lesson, students brainstorm different landmarks around their community and nationally.  Students then identify the patterns in Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings or landmarks. 

Students appreciate each others similarities and differences. In this character education lesson, students use apples to demonstrate how we all have similarities and differences. Students choose an apple and write a short paragraph about...