Goal: To have children build a sense of identity and to respect differences
	What to Do: • Copy and distribute "The Story of Me" Student Reproducible Page. Ask students to use the reproducible page to organize information for a short autobiography, "The Story of Me." They can illustrate their autobiographies with self-portraits and photographs. The autobiographies and self-portraits can be grouped as a collage on a bulletin board under the heading "We Are All Alike, We Are All Different." • Use the data from your students' "Stories of Me" to determine student preferences and attributes in the following categories: hair and eye color, favorite foods, colors, and animals. Make a bar graph showing the number of students in each category. Post your bar graph on a bulletin board. • Link this lesson to Lesson 1,"Make a Friend, Be a Friend," by creating a "Welcome to Our Class" book to hand out to the next new student or visitor who comes into the classroom. Ask each student to contribute a page about him- or herself and a self-portrait to the book.
	Follow Up: • Extend this activity by building a class Web site on which students can collect "Stories of Me" from their pen pals and from other students in your school.