For EDUC 336 Inclusive Education we created inclusive lesson plans to teach students of diverse needs. My group and I created a lesson on Grade 6 Science teaching about the northern lights. We planned accommodations in this lesson for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and gifted students with additional choices for students with varying levels of comfort and mobility. This lesson included learning about the northern lights from a Western scientific perspective and a local indigenous perspective. We created a worksheet that students could collaborate on to cement the ideas from a video on the Western scientific perspective. The lesson would then have students participate in an art activity (displayed below) to create their own northern lights. There were additional unused items that we created including a reflective activity and an Indigenous storybook about the northern lights. This lesson plan was helpful in considering how to create an engaging lesson while making accommodations and differentiated instruction to help learners with and without exceptionalities stay engaged and interested in the class.
I developed this “crime board” as a tangible to be used in a forensic psychology unit of psychology 11/12. The purpose of this tangible is to allow students to connect various parts of forensic psychology to a fake case as a jumping off point for them to create their own crime boards and apply forensic psychology in different ways.
