Whose responsibility is it to protect equal rights? Class members engage in a series of activities that create awareness of the prejudice and intolerance persons with disabilities face. They then create a message addressed to their peers, asking them to take a stand against prejudice directed at those with intellectual disabilities.

Concepts

the special olympics, intolerance, prejudice, peer pressure, civic duty

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Arrange for a school-wide sharing of the projects

Classroom Considerations

• Preview the entire packet before deciding how to use the activities with your classes
• A safe classroom environment for discussion is required for the activities in the resource

Pros

• The carefully scaffolded resource includes links to Soeren Palumbo's speech and other Special Olympics Community resources, activities, a vocabulary list, discussion questions, the project assignment, and suggestions for classroom modifications

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.6.5 SL.7.5 SL.8.5