Character Education
Informational
Handbook & Guide
Alike and Different
1. Ask two students (a boy and a
girl—different races) to come to the front of the room. Ask the
rest of the class to call out differences between the two and have
the boy and girl step away from each other as each difference is
names: sex, color, hair, dress, etc.
Then ask students to call out
similarities: blood, humanity, language, arms and legs, brain, both
wearing jeans, both wearing sneakers, etc. The two students are to
walk toward each other as the similarities are named. Soon they will
have moved so close to each other that you must stop, because there
are more similarities than differences.
2. If you have more time, another
method of looking at similarities and differences is to put the
students into groups of three–five to compile a list
of:
- three things they have in
common
- three ways they are
different
Share the lists with the others in
the class. Be sure the class is quiet enough to hear the lists being
read.
We appreciate the different things
about others, because we can learn a great deal from them. However,
we need to realize how much we are all alike. Usually we have more
things in common than we realize.
Contributed by NCCJ
(Greensboro)
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