Diversity Awareness for K-6 Teachers

The Impact on Student Learning

By (author) Rona Leach McLeod

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Publication date:

16 June 2011

Length of book:

170 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

ISBN-13: 9781610484220

Diversity Awareness for K-6 Teachers: The Impact on Student Learning is a resource guide for elementary teachers and college-level student teachers for teaching diversity awareness across the various areas of content. It contains many exciting activities teachers can use to enhance learning while making learning and teaching fun and exciting. Specific 'themes' are covered as a part of diversity awareness lessons. Teachers have opportunities to create and develop additional activities and document outcome of lessons.

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2 Reflecting on How I Learn
Chapter 3 Reflecting on How My Students Learn
Chapter 4 Research on How We Learn
Chapter 5 ACTIVITY ONE: Days of the Week
Chapter 6 ACTIVITY TWO: Months of the Year
Chapter 7 ACTIVITY THREE: The Year
Chapter 8 ACTIVITY FOUR: WORDS
Chapter 9 ACTIVITY FIVE: COLORS
Chapter 10 ACTIVITY SIX: Money
Chapter 11 ACTIVITY SEVEN: Music
Chapter 12 ACTIVITY EIGHT: Food
Chapter 13 ACTIVITY NINE: Race
Chapter 14 ACTIVITY TEN: Hats
Chapter 15 ACTIVITY ELEVEN: Age
Chapter 16 ACTIVITY TWELVE: Continents
Chapter 17 ACTIVITY THIRTEEN: Pets
Chapter 18 ACTIVITY FOURTEEN: Languages
Chapter 19 ACTIVITY FIFTEEN: State Flowers/State Trees/State Birds
Chapter 20 ACTIVITY SIXTEEN: Length
Chapter 21 ACTIVITY SEVENTEEN: Tools
Chapter 22 ACTIVITY EIGHTEEN: Insects
Chapter 23 ACTIVITY NINETEEN: Alphabets
Chapter 24 ACTIVITY TWENTY: Greeting Cards
Chapter 25 ACTIVITY TWENTY-ONE: Holidays
Chapter 26 ACTIVITY TWENTY-TWO: Sports
Chapter 27 ACTIVITY TWENTY-THREE:States and Capitals
Chapter 28 ACTIVITY TWENTY-FOUR:Road Signs
Chapter 29 ACTIVITY TWENTY-FIVE: Systems and Organs of the Body
Chapter 30 ACTIVITY TWENTY-SIX: Weather Conditions
Chapter 31 ACTIVITY TWENTY-SEVEN: Shoes
Chapter 32 ACTIVITY TWENTY-EIGHT: Planets
Chapter 33 ACTIVITY TWENTY-NINE: Modes of Transportation
Chapter 34 ACTIVITY THIRTY: Rocks
Chapter 35 ACTIVITY THIRTY-ONE: Emotions
Chapter 36 ACTIVITY THIRTY-TWO: Types of Sentences
Chapter 37 ACTIVITY THIRTY-THREE: Presidents
Chapter 38 ACTIVITY THIRTY-FOUR: Multiple Intelligences
Chapter 39 ACTIVITY THIRTY-FIVE: Names
Chapter 40 ACTIVITY THIRTY-SIX: Stores
Chapter 41 ACTIVITY THIRTY-SEVEN: Addresses
Chapter 42 ACTIVITY THIRTY-EIGHT: Birthdays
Chapter 43 ACTIVITY THIRTY-NINE: Numbers
Chapter 44 ACTIVITY FORTY: Punctuation Marks
Chapter 45 ACTIVITY FORTY-ONE: Football/Baseball/Basketball Mascots
Chapter 46 ACTIVITY FORTY-TWO: Study of the Newspaper
Chapter 47 ACTIVITY FORTY-THREE: Musical Instruments
Chapter 48 ACTIVITY FORTY-FOUR: Colleges/Universities
Chapter 49 ACTIVITY FORTY-FIVE: Parts of a Tree
Chapter 50 ACTIVITY FORTY-SIX: Jobs/Occupations
Chapter 51 SUMMARY
Chapter 52 LESSON PLAN FORMATS
Chapter 53 BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chapter 54 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The activities are grade specific and aligned with educational standards. This manual would be a great resource for any teacher to have in the classroom. It is well-planned with skill topics.