Idea: We may be different, but we are one!
Overarching project: Students will design a wall in the school building that will be used to exemplify the
Discuss how diversity and other factors of
the classroom and school environment
impact behaviors, choices, and so on
Use the math analyses about the school
community to discuss who the school is
made up of and interrelations between the
characteristics (students use hula hoop
venn diagram to understand that each
person is a part of several groups, but
they are all associated in some way)
Activities
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.1
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.5
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.7
Standards
Write about someone else that he or she
knows in the school explaining that they
are different from each other, but they are
Activities
friends.
Write an opinion piece about why the
diverse school community is important to
its functioning.
Students will work with partners design
posters about how to respect diversity in
the classroom and school. Research from
social studies will be used. They will be
displayed around the school to motivate
their peers.
CIV 2.4 diversity that exists among them. Within a survey that the students will design and disperse, they will collect
GEO 2.4 results of adjectives that each individual would describe him- or herself as. A wall will be decorated by the
GEO 2.6 students with these words. They will co-write a description to go along with this project to explain their goals
of helping the school community understand that although diversity is among them, they are all united in
many ways. Diversity is found among them both inside and outside of school. They can use this write-up to
explain their findings from the math, science, and social studies lessons.
Standards
Activities Graph diverse characteristics of people around the
classroom and school
Use math calculations to analyze data gathered
about the school community (role, class, favorite
subject, where from, ethnicity, color hair, etc.)
Social Studies
Math
Standards
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.A.1
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.B.2
Diversity CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.C.3
in CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.A.1
School CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.A.4
Writing CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.D.10
Science
Activities
Reading Experiment with eggs for students to see
Standards that the outside may look different, but the
inside is the same.
Compare and contrast characteristics of
different plants and animals to see that
diversity is not solely confined to humans.
2-PS1-1 Go through the process of fingerprinting
2-LS4-1 and analyze each others prints for
Activities similarities and differences.
Standards
Students will be organized within small reading groups within which they are assigned
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.6 different books about diversity in the classroom.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.1 During morning meeting, a book about diversity will be read.
Books: Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun, Chocolate Milk Por Favor!, The Sandwich Swap,
Moon Patrol, Strictly No Elephants, Fur is Only Fur Deep