Students will participate in activites that teach them to value diversity and respect one another. They start off by recognizing their preferences for "favorite time of the year." This lesson is adaptable for younger students.

After the teacher has read many books to the class about diversity (different cultures, people with disabilities, children of families of divorce, etc.), the whole class will discuss ways that we can show respect and appreciation for differences rather than pretending that there are no differences or taking the easy way out by ignoring the differences and the people with differences.  Next, higher-level students will write skits to demonstrate interactions among people of different cultures, backgrounds, religions, and abilities.  All class members will get to act out the skits.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

In these lessons, students learn a traditional Chinese folktale and examine a contemporary artwork that’s based on it. The work, Xu Bing’s Monkeys Grasp for the Moon, is an installation made up of the word monkey in more than a dozen languages. Students create their own word-based works. This set of four lessons is divided into grades K–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12. Younger students arrange cut-out letters into a picture. Older students create an animation.