This unit aims to help students answer three essential questions: 

1. What does it mean to be a good friend? 

2. Why is there no such thing as “normal”? 

3. Why do we share our stories with others? 

The Valuing Our Diversity unit will develop or deepen students’ understanding of disability and the assumptions surrounding it. This learning will support and promote identity pride for disabled students and provide factual representation of disability for all. Students will be provided with a definition to help them demystify disability and understand ableism, as they engage in ongoing learning to understand disability as one aspect of human diversity.

• Grades: 4-5

• Standards: Community and Advocacy

• Approximate number of lessons: 15

• Created from Units in Storyteller