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Color Your Destiny Lesson PlanColor Your Destiny Lesson Plan
Publisher
Missouri Department of Elementary
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Grade
8th
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Social & Emotional Learning
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Duration
45 mins
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Collaborative Learning
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Color Your Destiny

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Class groups bring feeling words alive by creating a poster that illustrates with images and colors, but not words, the feeling conjured by the word. The posters are then combined into a mural for the classroom wall.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

social-emotional learning, self assessment, self identity, self-awareness, communities, building community, school community, the global community, problem solving strategies, problem solving techniques, perseverance, integrity, intolerance, goal setting, compassion, call it courage, respect, bullying, internet safety

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Coordinate the lesson with the school counselor
  • Create a color poster of Frank Outlaw's statement and post in the classroom
  • To provide scaffolding for the poster project, introduce and discuss Outlaw's statement at the beginning of the lesson
  • Once the murals are finished and posted, have class members guess the feeling word the picture illustrates

Classroom Considerations

  • The first in a series of two related lessons
  • Required materials include a tube of toothpaste, a children''s book dealing with feelings/self concept, poster board or butcher paper, crayons or markers

Pros

  • Includes a list of suggested books that can b e used for the instructional activity

Cons

  • Some learners will required more scaffolding to understand the connection between the opening activity and the poster project

Common Core

SL.8.1.a

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