Lesson Plan: Exploring Identity | Off and Running (Entire lesson plan, with instructions and steps to teach personal identity) Download the Lesson Plan Jump to: OVERVIEWIn this lesson, students will explore how factors such as race, religion and family shape a person's personal identity. POV documentaries can be recorded off-the-air and used for educational purposes for up to one year from their initial broadcasts. Please visit our Film Library to find other films suitable for classroom use or to make this film a part of your school's permanent collection. OBJECTIVESStudents will: Identify facets of their personal identities.Observe and analyze how race, religion, family and other factors influence the identity of a high school student seen in a series of video clips.Create self-portraits made up of objects, symbols and/or imagery that represent key elements of their identity.Explain what objects they included in their self-portraits and how they relate to their personal identities. SUBJECT AREAS: Psychology, Sociology, Social Studies, Art Top of Page Students can be assessed on: POV. Art Connections Behavioral Studies
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Who am I? Identity Portfolio | mrspal (Exercises to help students reflect on the layers of personal identity) The theme for 8th grade is simply: identity. Students explore identity through forgiveness and justice, immigration, and making a difference. Each novel, poem, short story, and writing piece is carefully chosen with identity in mind. The following pieces were included in their identity portfolios: Bio Poem: A fun reflection in prose.Forgiveness Personal Narrative: After reading The Sunflower by Simon Weisenthal, students question their ability to forgive. Students had the option of presenting their portfolio any way that they wanted in order to reflect their own personal identity and personalities. 25 Awesome Virtual Tours Online - Virtual Education Websites Just because you’re online doesn’t mean that you can’t experience the world first-hand — or as close to first-hand as possible. Here are websites that feature virtual learning experiences, exposing online visitors to everything from history to geography, astronomy to anatomy, literature to government. 7 Wonders Panoramas – 360-degree views of the Seven Wonders of the World. Arounder Virtual Tour of the Moon – 360-degree panoramic views of the moon, courtesy of the Apollo 11, 12 and 17 missions. Frissiras Museum – A virtual art gallery from Athens, Greece that allows you to explore paintings by clicking through their entire collection. Google Earth – Explore the geography of both land and sea (free download). Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Vital Signs: Understanding Cardiovascular Diseases – A virtual gallery teaching about heart disease. Louvre Virtual Tour – Virtual tour of the world-famous Louvre museum in Paris. Mount St. Supreme Court Tour – A 360-degree exploration of the U.S.
Lesson Plan: Identity: Defining Self, Choosing Friends ( Help the students define themselves, and equip them with techniques to choose and act around friends) Download the Lesson Plan Jump to: In this lesson, students explore the factors that influence self-identity, which frequently evolves as adolescents negotiate life’s circumstances to find and secure their places in the world. The video clips provided with this lesson are from Only the Young, a film that follows three unconventional Christian teenagers coming of age in a small Southern California town. Skateboarders Garrison and Kevin and Garrison’s on-and-off girlfriend, Skye, wrestle with the eternal questions of youth: friendship, true love and the promise of the future. Yet their lives are also touched by the distress signals of contemporary America–foreclosed homes, abandoned businesses and adults in financial trouble. POV offers a lending library of DVDs that you can borrow anytime during the school year–FOR FREE! By the end of this lesson, students will: Language ArtsSocial StudiesCurrent Events Internet access and equipment to show the class online videoChart paper and markers 1. 2.
Map of The World - Shaded Relief Tutorial: Sense Of Self / Personal Identity (How to understand as a teacher and deal with, students with a problematic image and sense of self) WHAT IS SENSE OF SELF? Everybody has a sense of self or sense of personal identity. In fact most people have a number of important ways of thinking about themselves that are significant enough to be considered multiple senses of self. Gender Roles and Relationships (Teaching about Gender Roles and relationships through this lesson plan) A Lesson Plan from Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program Purpose: To examine how gender roles affect relationships Materials: Leader's Resource, Gender Role Case Studies Time: 40 to 50 minutes Planning Notes: Choose case studies from the Leader's Resource, Gender Role Case Studies, or substitute your own if they are more appropriate Procedures: Explain to teens that stereotypes about gender roles can affect our relationships. Discussion Points: Is it easy or hard to look at male and female roles in a new and nontraditional way?