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Lesson 1: I Am Special and You Are Special Too - Barbara Geary, Sara Conway, Joy Evans
Subject Area: Diversity
Grade level: Early Preschool (Ages 2 1/2- 3)
Length of Lesson: 20 minutes
Objectives: 1.The children will know they are unique and special. 2. The day you were born is special. 3. Families celebrate in different ways. 4. Growing is a good thing.

Lesson 2: I Am Special and You Are Special Too - Kelly Lewis, Justin O'Toole, Becky Weiler
Subject Area: Diversity
Grade level: Preschool (3 and 4 year olds)
Length of Lesson: 30 minutes
Objectives: The student will be able to...

* Create a drawing of themselves through the use of multicultural people color crayons
* Explain to a teacher what makes them special

Lesson 3: I Am Special You Are Special Too - Natalie Fontana, Carol Jenkins, Jessica Wentz
Subject Area: Diversity
Grade Level: Kindergarten (Ages 5-6)
Length of Lesson: 60 minutes
Group Size: 6 or more students
Objectives: Given the reading of the story, the students will be able to identify one individual difference, on thing about themselves that is similar to other students in the class and one thing that makes...

Lesson 4: I Am Special and You Are Special Too - Christina Franz & Amber Stahl
Subject Area: Diversity
Grade level: Kindergarten (Ages 5-6)
Length of Lesson: 60 minutes
Objectives: The students will be able to: 1. Review the classroom rules as well as rules for how to be a good listener, and how to be a good speaker. 

Lesson 5: I Am Special and You Are Special Too - Eboni Craighead & Dana Stephens/Culley
Subject Area: Diversity, Language Arts, Art, Music, Movement
Grade level: Kindergarten (Ages 5-6) through 3rd Grade
Length of Lesson: 60 minutes
Objectives: Give a lesson showing that everyone is special in his or her own way. Children will demonstrate their knowledge by drawing a picture or writing about being special.

Lesson 6: I Am Special and You Are Special Too - Eleanor Vistein
Subject Area: Diversity
Grade level: Kindergarten (Ages 5-6)
Length of Lesson: 60 minutes
Objectives: The students will create a book based on personal experience that will include information about self; people, places, and things relevant to self; and appropriate illustrations.

Lesson 7: I Am Special and You Are Special Too - Colleen Mangan and Nora McGinley
Subject Area: Diversity
Grade level: Kindergarten (Ages 5-6)
Length of Lesson: 60 minutes
Group Size: 6 students Objectives: A. The students will remember and review the classroom rules. B. They also will learn more about their classmates and the college students and realize what makes each of us all unique. 

Lesson 8: I Am Special and You Are Special Too - Kristy L. Hartz & Ashley Novak
Subject Area: Diversity
Grade level: Kindergarten (Ages 5-6)
Length of Lesson: 60 minutes
Group Size: 6 students
Objectives: The students will be able to listen to a book about being different and understand that everyone is different, but special in their own unique way. 

Lesson 9: I Am Special and You Are Special Too - Alyson Walls
Subject Area: Diversity
Grade level: 8th grade
Length of Lesson: 60 minutes
Objectives: Students will be able to recognize what makes them special through class participation; discussion of rap music and its similarities to poetry; working together to write a poem about themselves and designing...