Lesson Plan #2- Diversity
Lesson Plan: Gamification and Inclusive Education
Overview
We hope you find the lesson plan templates we have created surrounding Inclusive education, focusing on inclusivity and diversity, helpful in your classroom!
Created by: Kerri O'Neill, Brooke Stilling, and Josh Stayko.
Lesson Plan #1: What is Inclusion?
The following resources are used in the lesson plan. There are links provided in the document as well as you can find them here:
Scavenger hunt Padlet example- https://padlet.com/oneillk221/a1xoqfkhysegyfo7
Create your own Padlet- https://padlet.com/
Link for you to create your own poll everywhere- https://www.polleverywhere.com/
We did one as a multiple-choice assessment to the question "Inclusion can be defined as?" as well as an open-ended poll in which the students were able to answer the question "What does the word inclusion mean to you?" in their own words.
You will find that poll everywhere has many different options to choose from including multiple-choice and word clouds and surveys.
The following lesson plans include class activities based on Inclusion featuring gamification activities, group work, and discussions. The lessons are suitable according to the Alberta Program of Studies for Elementary age students, grades 2-3, and the subject area of Social Studies. This first lesson will be centered around teaching the definition and concepts of what inclusion is and looks like, preparing them to build on this acquired knowledge in the second lesson plan.
The first lesson plan has two objectives
1. To provide the definition of Inclusion as well as examples of what Inclusion can look like in the classroom.
2. To present the concept of Inclusion to the students as well as how it will occur in the classroom and in their daily lives
Lesson Plan #2
These are the following resources used in the provided lesson plan. You can access them on the lesson plan or from here:
The article which inspired the collage assignment- https://www.gettingsmart.com/2016/10/08/student-activities-to-promote-diversity-inclusion-and-empathy/
Youtube video about diversity and cultures around the world- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwSYrsjTiW4
Make your own Kahoot- https://create.kahoot.it/
The second lesson plan will be building on ideas from the first lesson plan which focused on teaching students about inclusion . This lesson centers on teaching children about what diversity is and help them understand and accept diversity in the classroom and around the world. The lesson plan adheres to the Alberta Program of Studies for Elementary students, Grades 2-3. The subject area the lesson is suitable for is Social Studies. This lesson includes gamification activities and group-work to increase engagement throughout the lesson.
The objectives of this lesson are:
1. Demonstrate and help students to understand what Diversity means
2. Get students to recognize where diversity can occur; in public, in the classroom, throughout their day-to-day lives