Circle of Friends Lesson

Circle of Friends Lesson PDF

Lesson summary:

Students will participate in an exercise and discussion on disability and segregation. In this lesson students will map out social interactions in their everyday lives. After they complete the exercise the teacher will facilitate a discussion on segregation. Students with disabilities who grow up in institutions are effectively segregated from the rest of the population, so their social circles tend to look very different from the students in class.  This lesson is split into two class periods. 

Subject and topic: 

Social Studies, Segregation of disabled people

Grade level:

9th-10th

Duration:

1 hour for 2 class periods