Multicultural Lesson Plan:

You are UNIQUE!

Second Grade

Sarah Overland
EDU 280
May 2, 2016

Standards
CCSS ELA-Literacy.L.2.4.E
Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the meaning of
words and phrases.
SWBAT define the word unique.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.2
Write informative/ explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop
points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
SWBAT describe in writing the person that they have created.
MCE goal #2 Create a total educational environment that promotes respect for difference.
SWBAT describe, recognize and appreciate physical differences in other people.
Audio Learning Students will listen to the teacher explain the word unique.
Visual Learning Students will see the definition of the word unique written on the white board.
Kinesthetic Learning Students will cooperatively draw unique people and write about them.
Linguistic intelligence speech, reading and writing
Spatial intelligence create visual image
Interpersonal intelligence empathize and recognize difference among people

Materials/ Equipment

Classroom with tables grouped for 6 children per table

White board with markers
Dictionary
1 sheet of light colored construction paper per student
Crayons / markers/ pencils for each table
Lined sheet of writing paper for each student

Procedures

Teacher: Begin by writing the word UNIQUE on the board. Ask the students what they
think the word means.
Students: different, not the same, one of a kind etc
Teacher: Choose a student to find the word Unique in the dictionary.
Student: Looks word up in Websters Dictionary and reads Used to say that something or
someone is unlike anything or anyone else.
Teacher: Passes out 1 sheet of construction paper to each student. Asks the students to
write their name on the paper. On the opposite side that the name is written on, students are
told that they are going to create their own unique person. First, they will draw the head of
that person. Then the teacher asks the students to pass their paper to the person to their
right. Now they will draw a body on the new sheet received from their neighbor. Once again,
pass the paper to the right, and draw arms. Then pass to the right again, and draw legs. Pass
to the right again and draw hands/ feet. Pass to the right again and draw facial features. This
last pass to the right, students should have their original paper back.

Procedures Contd
Teacher: Once the students have their original paper back, there should be a complete body
drawn on the paper. Students will have 10 minutes to add whatever details they would like
to complete their person and give him or her a name.

Closure

Students are asked to share some of the details of their person that makes them
unique.
Students will respond : My person has big eyes, my person has short legs, my person has
beautiful eyelashes, my person has short hair, etc.
Teacher: Passes out writing paper and tells students that they will have 30 minutes to
write a paragraph telling about their person. They need to tell the persons name, and
describe at least 3 physical features about that person.
When finished writing, students will turn in both the writing and the drawing.

Assessment
Grading Rubric: 30 pts possible
3 pts

5 pts

10 pts

Drawing: 10 pts.

Basic lines, no
details.

Little detail and

color.

Full color and

details.

Writing Content:
10 pts

Gives no name
or description of
person.

Gives name but

lacks detailed
descriptions.

Gives name and

describes 3
features.

Shows some
effort. Followed
most directions.

Followed all
directions and
displayed
thought and
effort.

Creativity: 10 pts Lacks effort.

Didnt follow
directions

References

Everybody Is Unique: A Lesson in Respect for Others. (2012, January 9). Retrieved April 16,
2016, from
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/03/lp294-05.shtml
Preparing America's students for success. (2016). Retrieved April 16, 2016, from
://www.corestandards.org/
Unique. (n.d.). Retrieved April 26, 2016, from http://www.merriamwebster.com/dictionary/unique

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