Sharon Pennock
Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:50:00 +0000
9th grade, 10th grade

Students will participate in an exercise and discussion on disability and
segregation. In this lesson students will map out social interactions in
their everyday lives. After they complete the exercise the teacher will
facilitate a discussion on segregation. Students with disabilities who grow
up in institutions are effectively segregated from the rest of the
population, so their social circles tend to look very different from the
students in class. This lesson is split into two class periods.

Image description: Overlapping circles with various disability icons inside
each circle

Circle of Friends Lesson PDF

Lesson summary:

Students will participate in an exercise and discussion on disability and segregation. In this lesson students will map out social interactions in their everyday lives. After they complete the exercise the teacher will facilitate a discussion on segregation. Students with disabilities who grow up in institutions are effectively segregated from the rest of the population, so their social circles tend to look very different from the students in class. This lesson is split into two class periods.

Subject and topic:

Social Studies, Segregation of disabled people

Grade level:

9th-10th

Duration:

1 hour for 2 class periods