1. Gender Lesson 2 Being a girl or a boy
Girl and boy at school in Dhaka, Bangladesh
© Plan International 2009

2. In this lesson we are going to…
Look at what girls and boys around the world are interested in
Explore whether we can tell if a child is a boy or a girl based on what he or she likes

3. Children Around the World
A – Julie (6 years)
B – Joe (5 years)
C –Michael (5 years)
F – Chen (7 years)
D – Carmen (5 years)
E – Alisa (6 years)
G – Huan (8 years)
H – Andrés (7 years)

4. Likes and Dislikes 1 – I like animals but I don’t like sport
2 – I like singing but I don’t like football
3 – I like helping my Mum cook
4 – I prefer to plant flowers than do homework
5 – I like the colour green, I don’t like pink
6 – I love to laugh but I don’t like dogs
7 – I like to read and I like the colour pink
8 – I am the best in my class at football

5. Continue with your own ideas…
What did we learn?
I can be a girl and like to play with trucks
I can be a boy and like to play with dolls
You can be a girl and like to play in mud and get all dirty
He can be a boy and like to sing and dance
We can be girls or boys and like to…
Continue with your own ideas…

6. We like…

7. Extension Activities
Project on children from a particular country – Choose a country and look at ‘A Day in the Life’ of that child, comparing with their own experience
Class collage on ‘What girls and boys in our class like the most”: list things that children say they like and rank them according to which receives the most votes, then children draw the top 15 things mentioned