Lesson Plan: Respect Goggles (4/8)​

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Applying What You Have Learned

On the following pages are lesson plans that can be used to integrate Ezra Jack Keats books  in your program planning. The lesson plans are intended to be an optional resource that you may adapt for use in your classroom.  The worksheets at the bottom of each lesson plan are part of the required coursework (not optional).

Please read each lesson plan carefully and then answer the question at the bottom of the page.

Respect Goggles

Age Group: 

• Toddler
• Preschool​ ​
  

Objectives:

• Students will create a unique set of goggles to go along with the book Goggles by Ezra Jack Keats which will open up dialogue about respecting diversity in the classroom.

CDA Competency Standard:  
III.9.3a 

• Candidate promotes children’s sense of belonging in the classroom community

a) Encourages children’s social interactions

Materials: 

• Goggles by Ezra Jack Keats
• Colored Cardstock
• Goggles Template (Click here to download)
• Tape

Procedure: 

1. Read Goggles by Ezra Jack Keats in a developmentally appropriate manner, pausing to ask questions and make observations.  When finished, have a discussion about what respect is and how not everyone was respectful to Peter and his friends in the story.
2. Invite children to create their own pair of goggles like Peter’s using the template and materials. When children are finished, gather at circle time to model some respectful exchanges as a class.

Some examples:
“Turn to your neighbor and compliment their glasses.”
“How are your glasses, Kiesha, different than Marco’s? Is there anything better or worse about one person’s glasses? No, there is not, because they are all different like we are.”
“What are some respectful words we can use in our classroom?”  

Assessment: 

• Assess children upon their participation and understanding of the value of respect in the classroom. For younger children, you may ask them how they felt during the exercise.  

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This is assignment 4 of 8 .

Worksheet

Teaching Self-Expression with Ezra Jack Keats * Respect Goggles  * Page 10 (4/8) 

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1. Course Agenda
2. Ezra Jack Keats Biography​
3. Life and Writings of Ezra Jack Keats
4. Self-Expression
5. Supporting Self-Expression
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6. Child’s Self-Expression (1/8)
7. Teaching Respect for Diversity
8. Diversity (2/8)
9. Snowy Day Sensory Play (3/8)
10. Respect Goggles (4/8)
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