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Developing Kids of Character in Our Schools
The Power of a Literature-Based Diversity
Curriculum
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the
body.  It is wholesome and bracing for the mind
to have its faculties kept on the stretch." --
Augustus Hare 
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• Kids of Character
• Teaching Tolerance Program
•   Joint partnership
• Camp Fire, USA and Capital University
• Program Description
• Literature-based school outreach
• Students K-5 develop attitudes and values that
  allow them to make good choices about equality,
  respect, understanding, and appreciation of human
  diversity in their classrooms and community.

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Kids of Character Program Description

• Offers students the opportunity to listen and
  participate in diversity-based literature that
  transmits values and perceptions of the world.
• Through engaging lessons and activities, students
  are motivated to learn about others who are
  significantly different from themselves.

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Kids Of CharacterTeaching Tolerance

• Disability Kit
• for My Buddy

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Simulated Tactile Disability
Multiple pairs of gloves with different
combinations of the fingers taped together are
used to simulate a tactile disability.
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Students are asked to write their name while
wearing the glove and compare it to their
everyday handwriting.
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Physical Disability
Students are asked to walk about the classroom
with the sponges between their knees.
Difficulties occur because the walking speed is
significantly slowed.
Hardened sponges are placed between the knees to
simulate a physical disability.
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Simulated Visual Impairment
Glasses with differing lens strengths and some
with tape or paint obstructing vision are used to
simulate a visual impairment.
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Reading becomes a challenge.
Blindfolds are also used to simulate a visual
impairment. Students escort one another around
the room relying only on verbal cues.
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Student Journal
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Student Journal
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Student Artifacts
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Student Artifacts
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Student Artifacts
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Student Artifacts
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Student Artifacts
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• THE KIDS OF CHARACTER
• TEACHING TOLERANCE PROGRAM
• INVITE US INTO YOUR SCHOOL!
• PLEASE CONTACT
• Camp Fire USA Central Ohio Council
• 1890 Northwest Blvd. Suite 240
• Columbus, Oh 43212
• 614-481-8227, fax [phone]
• Amy R. Boyd, CEO
• amy_at_centralohiocampfire.org