About This Lesson
Not Weird, Just Different is a lesson plan created by Kaitlin Payne of South Topsail Elementary School. It was selected as a Rare Lessons winner. Rare Lessons is a Rare Disease Lesson Plan contest hosted by Sarepta Therapeutics. The program is intended to promote the development and implementation of rare disease education in the K-12 classroom.
Objectives:
- Students will understand what a rare disease is.
- Students will be able to clear up their misconceptions of rare disease.
- Students will learn about how to include people with rare disease in and out of the classroom.
- Students will learn that people with rare disease can have traits that are visible and invisible differences and similarities.