Date

5-2018

Document Type

Capstone Project (Open Access)

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Department

Liberal Studies

Major

Human Development and Family Studies

First Advisor

Rob Weisskirch

Abstract

As early as toddler years, children are absorbing information about gender stereotypes on what they should and should not be doing based solely off their sex and “have typically come to prefer activities defined by the culture as appropriate for their sex” (Wolter & Hannover, 2016, p.683). I thought it was important to start coming up with age appropriate ways to explain the concept of gender to children and teach preschool children about acceptance of differences in one another as well as themselves. For my project, I created a two-day lesson plan that was meant to be an introduction on speaking about gender diversity in preschool classrooms. To introduce this topic, I used the book Sparkle Boy by Leslea Newman, which is about a boy who expresses himself through non-gender conforming clothes. The protagonist in the story is one example of an individual who may be apart of the LGBTQ+ community.

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