Blog Post 13

This week we were asked to create our own blog post assignment according to our expertise. I have recently learn that children start to notice differences among themselves and others at a very early age. So the blog post I would create is about diversity because it is such a huge part of our world and teachers need to start teaching children about it in the elementary grades.

Directions: Find activities or tools that you would use to help teach diversity in the elementary classrooms and briefly summarize each.

When life give you lemons, peel it. With this activity, you would give each student a lemon and have them to observe it very carefully. Once they have observe the lemon, have them to but in a basket and the teacher would shake it up to mix the lemons up. Once the lemons are all mixed up, have the students to pick out the lemon that they initially received. After they have completed that part, take the lemons and peel them. Put them back in the basket and have students pick out the one they had. Chances are they are not going to know which one they had. This open up the time to discussion how people may look different because of gender, size, race, disabilities or whatever it may be, but often times people are the same on the inside.

Who am I poem. I would have my students to write a poem on who they are. They would self-reflect on themselves and record their poems. I would let them share with the class who they are. I am sure they will find more similarities than differences.

Those are just two of many activities that can be used to help teach diversity. Diversity can be such a touchy topic to discuss with anyone,but as educators and especially elementary educators I think that it is important for us to teach our students about the differences and similarities of others. Also as educators, we need to learn how to be culturally responsive when our students begin to ask us questions about different diversity.