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Warm-up

1. Start with 5-7 minute conversations
   • “START TIME 5-7 MINUTE CONVERSATION DISCUSS WHATEVER”
2. Vocab Review
   1. CLASSROOM
      1. Left and right hand shapes C with palms facing outwards. Rotate wrists until pinky fingers touch.
      2. Left and right hand shapes 5 flat with fingers together. Palms are parallel and facing inward, then move 90degrees to have palms face each other, thus creating a box shape.
   2. DESK
      1. Fingerspelled D-E-S-K
   3. CHAIR
      1. Dominant bent index finger and middle finger to nearly 90 degree, palm down, taps twice on the non-dominant palm-down “H” handshape, where the dominant fingers sits on top of the non-dominant fingers.
   4. WHITEBOARD
      1. Dominant hand shaped 5 on chest then pulls away with all fingertips touching.
      2. Left and right hand shapes L, palms outward, and next to one another to make a frame.
      3. Dominant hand shaped as though holding a pencil. Within the frame, pretend to write.
   5. WINDOW
      1. Two-handed horizontal flat hands, both facing in, the edge of dominant hand taps twice on top of the edge of non-dominant hand.
3. Have students take turns and pick one discussion question to answer
   1. If you became a teacher, which grade would you teach?
      • “IF TECAHER YOU BECOME, GRADE YOU TEACH WHICH?”
   2. What is your favorite memory of school?
      • “SCHOOL MEMORY YOUR FAVORITE WHAT?”
4. Have the fingerspelling card available at the front, near the lab assistant.
   1. The lab assistant will fingerspell the first two words on the card
      • “START ME FINGERSPELL 2 WORDS”
   2. Cover up the words on the card except for the next two words
   3. Have a student come up, look at the card and fingerspell those two words
      • “ME FINISH LEARN PERSON COME NEXT 2 WORDS FINGERSPELL” 
   4. The lab assistant will come back to the card, and cover up the words on the card except for the next two
   5. Continue till the end of the card
      • “FINISH ME COVER WORDS NEW LEARN PERSON NEXT 2 WORDS FINGERSPELL”

Main Activity

1. Hand out whiteboards to each student and tell them to create their ideal classroom (as a student)
   • “YOU WHITE BOARD HAVE WRITE DRAW CLASS ROOM THINK BEST”
2. Discuss some of these prompts:
   1. Do you like clean classrooms?
      • “YOU CLEAN CLASS-ROOM LIKE?”
   2. Do you prefer classroom chairs in straight lines, circles, movable chairs, etc?
      • “YOU CHAIRS LIST 3- cl-LINES cl-CIRCLES CHAIRS MOVE FAVORITE WHICH?”
   3. Do you like when classrooms have colored posters on the wall?
      • “CLASSROOM WALL COLOR POSTER LIKE?”
   4. What kind of learner are you? How would you like the classroom to fit those needs?
      • “YOU LEARN HOW? CLASS-ROOM HELP HOW?”
3. Once they’re done drawing their layout, have them explain why it’s best for them
   • “YOU DRAW FINISH SHARE EXPLAIN”
4. Afterward, tell them to design a classroom that would be ideal for Deaf students
   • “EXPLAIN FINISH NOW DEAF PEOPLE CLASSROOM DRAW DIFFERENT HOW?”
5. Have a brief discussion about the best layout for Deaf students describe this using CLs
   1. Open floor plan
   2. Seats in a circular set-up
   3. Engaging/relevant posters
   4. Smartboard to show videos, presentations, etc.

Wrap-up

1. How did you like the activity?
   • “NOW DAY YOU DO LIKE?”
2. Did you learn anything new?
   • “YOU LEARN NEW WHAT?”

End of Lab:

• Sign or show Can-Do statements once more and have students evaluate their confidence
  • (Use thumbs up/ thumbs down or have them rate 1-5 on how they feel after the activity)
• Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation
• Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!