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Em202 - Culminating Assignment Part 1
Em202 - Culminating Assignment Part 1
Em202 - Culminating Assignment Part 1
Before starting the action project create a community name for your classroom (have the
students get creative and collaborate ideas!)
DAY 1 MONDAY
Topic: Identity Inequality
Activity: Peel Away Differences
Area(s) of Interest: race, gender, sexuality, religion inequalities etc.
Goal: For students to realize that our physical differences on the outside, we are all the same on
the inside and deserve the right to be treated and respected equally.
Duration: ~ 20 minutes
Materials: basket and oranges for each student
Direction: Give each student an orange and have him or her inspect it in detail (size, shape,
markings, dents, smell etc.) After a couple minutes place all the oranges in a basket and from
memory direct the student to select which orange was their based on their description.
Next, have each student peel their orange and place them in the basket once again; this time the
students will realize they are struggling because they all look the same.
DAY 2 TUESDAY
Topic: Hunger
Activity: Tree of Hungeribilities
Area(s) of Interest: Hunger inequality around the world
Goal: For students to think hunger as a social issue and use critical and collaborative thinking to
observe the root causes to hunger and its connection to poverty. Finally, they will become aware
of the global and local opportunities they can take to make a difference and reduce the problem
Duration: ~ 30-40 minutes
Materials: tree templates and markers
Direction: Provide the students with information about hunger around the globe (either through
articles, videos, pictures etc.) and have them do some research on their own. Next, break the
students off into groups of 4 or 5 and provide each with a hand out of a tree template. Give the
students 10-15 minutes to discuss within their groups possible local and global solutions they can
do/suggest after learning about food injustice. Finally, come together as a class and have each
group contribute 1-2 ideas to make a large tree of Hungeribilities to keep in the classroom.
DAY 3 WEDNESDAY
Topic: Socio-economic Inequality
Activity: Economically Smarties
Area(s) of Interest: Inequalities of wealth in a global context
Goal: For students to understand economic inequalities and generate a plan for action based on
personal viewpoints and decisions made collectively as a group.
Duration: ~ 30-60 minutes
Materials: paper bags, Smarties, and 3 prizes (high income = chocolate bar; average income =
popcorn; low income/poverty = bag of carrots)
Direction: Create 3 groups and assign each with a different amount of students. Each group
receives a bag with different amount of Smarties and this represents the different socio-economic
locations around the world (wealthy, average and low-income). The group with the most students
receives the bag that has the most Smarties, the second group receives the bag with the second
highest amount of Smarties and the last group collects the bag with the least amount of Smarties.
Each group is directed to count their amount and announce it to the class; in exchange the
Smarties have monetary value and they will be receiving an item in exchange for the chocolate.
The poor group gets the less desirable prize and the pattern continues until the wealthy group
gets the high-income prize.
Have the students discuss their feelings during the exercise and how it made them feel when they
got a certain reward based on their status in the community, along with how powerful they felt
compared to other groups.
DAY 4 THURSDAY
Topic: Disability
Activity: Battle of Thisability
Area(s) of Interest: Disability justice in a global context
Goal: For students to understand the importance of disability justice and the need for action to
switch this unequal disparity to increased inclusion and sustainability through support and
encouragement.
Duration: ~ 45 minutes
Materials: tape, construction paper and pencil crayons
Direction: Spilt the class up in half and assign the first group to design something with the
materials using their dominant hand and the other half of the class uses their non-dominant hand.
Repeat this activity twice so each group can experience both sides of the activity.
After both rounds are completed, gather the students together and have them discuss both their
experiences and how they felt when trying to complete the project using their dominant vs. nondominant hand. Most will find they had a more positive experience with their dominant hand
because they were fully capable of using all their motor skills as opposed to the struggles when
they faced limitations.
DAY 5 FRIDAY
Topic: Health Inequality
Activity: Find the Cure
Area(s) of Interest: Examine different types of health inequalities in a global context
Goal: For students to work together in groups on a specific health inequality (HIV/AIDS,
Obesity, Stress and Lung Cancer) and become a NGO that creates a possible solution to help
bridge the health disparity gap in that community.
Duration: ~ 60 minutes
Materials: access to Internet
Direction: Student breaks into 4 groups and is assigned a specific health disparity that needs
justice. They have 20 minutes to research the topic extensively and must create their own
nonprofit organization that will convince the policy maker (the teacher in this case) it will benefit
the community.
STEPS TO FOLLOW: At the end of this activity the students will have completed learning
about each of the injustices and their next task is to choose one of the 5 topics and go home
and create at least 2 core rights they believe should be included in the communities new bill
of rights when they return on Monday. They must write an explanation on why they believe
these rights should be chosen for the bill and they will be collected on Monday for individual
assessment.