Grade: 7th and 8th grade Special Education
Topics: Social Issues: drugs, gay rights, gangs, homelessness, pollution, and more
Created by: Marcos Bayas
Students were given the opportunity to think about issues in their community. They chose various topics of interest to them such as high gas prices, homelessness, poverty, lack of school supplies, and gangs and created powerpoint presentations.
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Grade: 4th grade
Topics: Identity: race, gender, etc. realistic fiction, self-appreciation, personal awareness
Created by: Alissa Levy
This unit was created as a way to promote positive self-identity within the mandated literacy curriculum. By exploring the genre of realistic fiction, students learned about their own identities- race, gender, home language, home country, age, and understood how those identities worked in the world around them.
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