Teaching acceptance (3-5)

General

This lesson will help teach students how to acknowledge and celebrate the differences that make our world so wonderfully diverse.

Learning objective

This lesson will teach students to celebrate diversity.

Introduction

Different groups of people have different cultural histories, which includes unique languages, foods, and traditions that. Culture can vary widely from country to country, state to state, even neighborhood to neighborhood! And it is these differences that give our lives texture and richness.

Closing

This lesson is meant to help guide a conversation primarily between students. They will be asked to reflect on:

- Why is diversity important?
- What are some ways people can be different from one another?
- How should we treat those who are different than ourselves?
- What are some consequences of not accepting those who are different?