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UMES 2019 Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference!

George Ojie-Ahamiojie, Ed.D, Ed.S, CHE, Department of Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Management, Wor-Wic Community College, Salisbury, Maryland

Potato Activity

• Goal
• To teach people how to eliminate

stereotypes and recognize the uniqueness of each individual.

My Friend – Mr. Potato

• Examine your potatoes.
• Get to know its bumps, scars, and

defects and make friends with it for about one minute or so in silence.

• Get to know your potato well enough

to be able to introduce your ‘friend’ to the group.

Activity

• Introduction of your friend to the group.
• “Would you agree with this statement:
• “All potatoes are the same’? Why or why not?”

Discussion

• People who live in the trailer park.
• Kids of a certain religion
• Students in the gifted program.
• Students in special education classes.
• People from a certain racial or ethnic

group.

• People who live in rural settings.
• People who live in the city.

Questions

• When we lump everyone from the same group together and

assume they all have the same characteristics, what are we doing? What is this called?

• Do you know a lot of people from the groups we tend to

lump together? Do they all fit the stereotype?

• Why are stereotypes dangerous?

Reference

• More Diversity Activities for Youth and Adults

https://extension.psu.edu/more-diversity-activities-for-youth-and-adults