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3-5 Activity Leader Guide
Everything you need to lead the six whole-class activities from the Upper Elementary Teacher Guide: prep checklists, materials, scripts, ways to include every student, and all the printables. Many activities are student-led!
Everything for independent work and home: a family letter, a Teach Your Family challenge, a BELONG acrostic poem, the 3.21 Cipher, a challenge word search, a photo prop sign, and conversation cards. Includes a teacher page on using Myth or Fact? in class, plus an answer key.
A party-planning kit for home, church, or classroom celebrations, with an inclusive checklist, invitations, banner pennants, food ideas, games, and favors.
Six ready-to-lead advisory conversations that expand the “More messages to teach” page of the Middle School Teacher Guide. Each one has an opener, a script, how to handle what students might say, a quick activity, and a follow-up. Six posters for your room are included.
For colleges, student organizations, Scouts, 4-H, clubs, and youth groups: campus and club ideas, service projects, a project planner, announcement and social copy, a tabling script, and a sock drive poster.
Six ready-to-lead discussions that expand the “More messages to teach” page of the High School Teacher Guide, for advisory, health, civics, or ELA. Each one has a framing script, how to handle what students raise, a quick activity, and an extension. Six discussion posters are included.
Everything you need to lead the six whole-class activities from the High School Teacher Guide: planning timelines, facilitation steps, ways to include every student, and all the printables, including business outreach scripts and a build-a-karyotype model.
Independent work and at-home pieces for high school: a family letter, a reflective essay organizer with rubric, a generational interview, a design brief for a 3.21 graphic, a service hours log, a photo prop sign, and conversation cards for teens and their families.
“Inclusion is a choice communities make, and you’re part of the community.” High school students are ready for real science, real history, and real responsibility. This guide works in biology, health, social studies, or advisory. It moves students from awareness to action, and it invites them to help their whole community Show Up for 3.21.
A guide to an optional, low-pressure classroom coin collection for 3.21. Includes school approval steps, a printable jar label, and a collection tracker.
A guide to building excitement with a seven- or 21-day countdown of facts and kindness ideas. Includes printable countdown cards and sharing suggestions.
A school guide to inviting an optional $3.21 family gift without pressure or singling anyone out. Includes a printable family note and school approval guidance.
Everything you need to lead the six whole-class activities from the Lower Elementary Teacher Guide: prep checklists, materials, scripts, ways to include every student, and all the printables.
Everything to send home so K–2 families can celebrate 3.21 together: a family letter, a sock game your student teaches, a family fact challenge, a kindness tracker, a design page, a photo prop sign, and conversation cards. Includes a teacher page on using My 3.21 Page in class.
Eight printable activities covering coloring, matching, a word search, maze, chromosome-sock illustration, secret code, kindness bingo, and alike/different reflection, with an adult answer key.
Materiales en español para familias, escuelas y negocios: ¿Qué es Celebrate 3.21?, datos sobre el síndrome de Down, una carta para las familias, una hoja para negocios, 21 maneras de celebrar y un cartel.
For public and school libraries: ways to celebrate, an inclusive book list, a 30-minute story time plan, a sensory-friendly setup, event and social copy, a community sock art wall, and a display sign.