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Guess Who?

My students need colored pencils and 3 Guess Who games so that each student can have a game board to play.

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My Students

My students have difficulty describing people. They often get the gender of people mixed up. They can describe someone's shirt color but not hair color. Beards, mustaches, blonde hair, bald heads are concepts they should know, but do not. Help me teach them to describe themselves and others.

My student are autistic adolescents that attend a public special education school in NY.

They are a lot of fun to be with and they are excited to learn if it is presented as a game. I became aware of their inability to describe people when one student told me he liked a girl in the school. When I asked him what her name was, he said he didn't know. Then when I asked him to describe her, he thought for a long time and then told me she wore a pink shirt! Our school has 300 students! I realized I had to teach him and his classmates how to describe people.

My Project

Each student will have their own game board. "Guess Who" has 2 boards in each game. Each student will take turns asking me questions to guess the picture I have. Depending on my Yes/No answer, they will have to turn down tiles to guess who I have in my hand. Students will have to discriminate who has blonde hair, dark skin, bald head, beard, glasses, etc. By learning all these adjectives, students will grasp the differences between people and be better able to give a description of a real person. (ie. "Who gave you a dollar? - "The man with the beard and red hair") The colored pencils will be used to draw people and describe them.

Autistic individuals don't pay much attention to other people.

This ongoing lesson will help them to look at others and to discriminate the differences between people. It could be come very helpful in their lives if they don't know someone's name and are asked to describe them.

Ms. Paccione PS Q177 Robin Sue Ward School Grades 6-8

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

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More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Guess Who Game by Hasbro • Cannon Sports, Inc. $32.45 3 $97.35
CRAYOLA COLORED PENCILS 24PK ASST----*Comments* • Teacher's School Supply Inc. $5.19 1 $5.19

Materials cost

$102.54

Vendor shipping charges

 $10.31

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.54

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$149.39

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$26.36

Total project goal

$175.75

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $175.75

1 Donor

-$175.75

Donations toward project cost

-$149.39

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.36

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