Students make dancing cardboard frogs or baby food jar frogs. As each type of frog or toad is researched, that student or group adds a frog or a toad to the map with its name in large letters. Classes go to the distance learning lab for an electronic field trip to the zoo to study its collection of toads and frogs. Possible trip to the outdoor learning lab. Hyperstudio projects are shared on the big screen projector and books are read using a microphone.
Teachers use resources about differences and handicaps with students in the classroom.
Classes begin an e-mail exchange with students at the School for the Deaf and learn to tell a simple folktale using sign language. Media Specialist discusses with the students how we often are afraid or don't understand people who are different from us or who are handicapped. Media Specialist introduces terms stereotype and bias and shows clips from television shows which use stereotypical characters and bias. Students visit their friends at the School for the Deaf via distance learning. They share information about families, friends, favorite foods, hobbies, pets, etc.