THEME: Our Happy School
LINKS TO PREVIOUS LEARNING
Previous SEAL lessons on Changes and on the theme: Ready Steady Go.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE (WALT)
We are the same, we are different!
LEARNING OUTCOMES (WILF)
I know that we are the same, yet different and are all special
I can tell you how I am the same as other people in my class and how I am different
I have thought about the differences between people
KEY VOCABULARY
Ground Rules, listening, caring, same, different
RESOURCES/SUPPORT
· SEAL New Beginnings
· Ground Rules Circle Time Rules
· Golden Rules general Classroom Rules
· Pencil or whiteboards and pens
· Two Silhouettes
· Paper, mirrors, pastels or crayons
· Unicef ‘Children just like me’ ISBN 0-7513-5327-2 or charity website
· UN Every Child ISBN 978-0-099-40865-9
· Black paper, light, scissors
NB: Alternative activities so read through lesson plan before finding resources
TEACHING/LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Refresh Ground Rules (whole class)
Sit in a circle and look at two silhouettes. What could be different about these two people? Have a thought shower to suggest hair, eye colour, skin, language, where they live, boy/girl etc.
Begin the thought process ‘we’re all the same, we’re all different, we’re all special’.
Or
Diversity Quiz
Give the children a slip of paper and pencil or use individual whiteboards. Ask the children five questions and to write one word answers without conferring!
What is your name?
What’s your hair colour?
How many eyes have you got?
What’s your favourite cartoon?
When’s your birthday/which month?
Ask children to compare answers with a partner, then as a foursome. What did you notice? Are all your answers the same? Begin the thought process ‘we’re all the same, we’re all different, we’re all special’.
MAIN TEACHING AND LEARNING
Activity 1
Use a selection of SEAL photocards depicting people from different ethnic groups. Discuss the idea that all members of the human race are unique – we share some similarities but are all different in many ways.
Sit in a circle for class discussion and share thoughts on the photos. What was the same about the people shown? What was different?
Activity 2
Ask the children to create their own self portrait by looking in mirrors and using pastels. They need to think about skin tone, face shape, eye colour etc.
OR
The children can create their own silhouettes using black paper and light N.B. Health and Safety
DIFFERENTIATION
HA group activity:
Would a child from Mexico be like us? Share Unicef ‘Children just like me’ and look at a child from a country associated with class theme or topic. Find out about Omar, from Mexico or other child and share his/her goals.
£££ You could discuss differences in standards of living across cultures and also the diversity within our community – does the amount of money we have access to affect our hopes and dreams?
In small group share individual ambitions…When I grow up I want to work with computers. In my spare time I will play football. Then as a group ask if we could change one thing about the world I would help all the children who live on the streets. Share group ambitions.
PLENARY
Is it okay to be different? What would it be like if we were all the same?
KEY QUESTIONS
1. How are we the same?
2. How are we different?
3. Is it okay to be different?
4. What would it be like if we were all the same?
ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING
CROSS CURRICULAR LINKS
Core skills
Writing opportunities
Speaking and Listening opportunities
Use of ICT
Mathematical skills
· Months of the Year. You could create a birthday chart, eye colour pictogram etc
Art opportunities
· Self-portraits
· Silhouettes
Science opportunities
· Life Processes and Humans
· Light and Dark silhouettes
Geography / PSHE opportunities
· UN Rights of Child
· Global awareness
HOME LEARNING ACTIVITY
Talk with a family about how we are the same, yet different.
EVALUATION
Autumn 1 KS1 Yr1/A Lesson 4