The Welcoming Hands activity from Welcoming Schools invites “students to explore the beauty of human skin tone variation as they work together to create a visual representation of their community with artistic hands that represent them individually and collectively.”
How do you help your students celebrate their uniqueness? How do you help them recognize and honor differences as you build an inclusive classroom community?
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View the Welcoming Hands lesson plan reel HERE.
Resources:
- Welcoming Hands—Lesson plan from Welcoming Schools
- Different Colors of Beauty—Lesson plan series from Learning for Justine
- Celebrating Skin Tone —from Rethinking Schools
- Talking About Skin Color: All the Colors We Are— from Teach Peace
- Talking to Young Children About Race—website from PBS Kids
Related Books:
- The Skin I’m In by Sharon Flake
- All the Colors We Are by Katie Kissinger
- The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
- All the Colors of the Earth. Sheila Hamanaka
- Skin Again by bell hooks.
- Looking at Skin Color with Books and Activities from Welcoming Schools
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