A box of crayons

This peer group lesson was based around the fact that everyone is different in their own way. To start off their lesson they did an activity called trading places. In this activity the teachers would name off different characteristics (hair, eye color, where you live etc.) and if they applied to us we would trade places with another person that it applied to. After that activity we then drew monsters. The piece of paper was separated into three different parts, head, torso, and feet. Each person would draw a head and then pass it onto to the next two people to draw the torso and then feet. Since three people had incorporated into making the final monster, he was very unique to show that just like the monster we are all different. The last part of the lesson we had to draw ourselves on a crayon. We had to use lots of color and draw ourselves and something that represents us. For mine I drew lots of blue, since its my favorite color. I drew myself on a surf board in the ocean, because I want to live on the beach someday and live by the ocean.

For an extension activity, I would have 3rd grade students draw pictures of one of their classmates. They would interview their classmate and find out background information and what makes the unique. I would then have them go around the room and show their picture and describe their classmate to the class. I think this would be a good activity, because they would be able to realize the diversity in their classroom and see how they are alike and different then each other.