teaching+about+discrimination

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Including students with disabilities in the classroom involves teaching their peers about their disability. The link above is to the blue eyes brown eyes exercise used by Jane Elliot to teach her third grade class about racism. It could equally be used to teach students about physical differences and discrimination, and what it feels like to be a student with a physical disability who is treated as less intelligent or capable by other students because they don't understand the nature of the physical difference, be it eye colour, or a cleft palate, or a motor-neuron disease. Consider sending a note home to parents informing them of the exercise before you conduct it.