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Guide Students with Handbook Activities

Playground Adventures

This simple maze encourages students to focus on the joys of friendship and inclusiveness,
regardless of color, shape, or size. Guide your students to recognize that everybody has
more fun when doing things together.

You Can’t Live Without It – Your Colorful Skin

This matching activity reinforces the idea of seeing skin as a covering in which all colors are
beautiful and appealing. Invite students to continue to play with the idea of finding delicious
foods to describe their own skin.

Help Them Dig Deeper – Research Project

Have students research the science, purpose, and function of skin in the human body. Such a study
can be tied in with how both geographical factors and genetics influence skin color.

Encourage More Reading – at Home, at School

Colors of Our Skin Science of Skin

All the Colors of the Earth
Black Is Brown Is Tan Inside the Skin, Hair, & Nails
Color of Us Our Skin Can Touch
Colors We Share Skin
Happy in Our Skin Skin and Hair: (A Sickening Augmented
I Am Brown Reality Experience)
If Dominican Were a Color The Skin on Your Body
Magnificent Homespun Brown: A The Skin You're In! The Secrets of Skin
Celebration Your Amazing Skin from Outside In
Mixed Me! Your Skin and Mine
Shades of People
Skin Again

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