The following are Identity-based activities from the University of Michigan’s Inclusive Teaching site. Although not developed based on the FPPL, I believe that they would be valuable activities to do with students to begin the conversation surrounding who they are and how they see themselves. Even though the site doesn’t state any relation to FPPL, these activities are labelled as “Personal Identity Wheel,” and “Social Identity Wheel.” It immediately creates this connection to Indigenous ways of knowing and learning from the term “wheel” which I can connect to circles, which we know are incredibly important to Indigenous culture as they relate to the cycles of the natural world.
A note on the last image here – there is language and terms that I would absolutely refrain from using as they are negative in nature. I would even remove the “body size” category and ensure that Gender/Sex had appropriate examples that were inclusive of all.
This is really interesting and could be a great self-reflection tool. I totally agree with you about some of the language, though. At first I thought I could use something like this for a PD activity, but I’d have to modify it to be more inclusive (or less exclusive?).
Absolutely – it just goes to show that we really need to be aware of who our audience is for the tools and lessons we are planning and using.