"Build a Self-Portrait Learning Center" gives students practice in sequencing and recording information accurately. This can help students better understand story sequences, but these skills are also helpful in other subjects, like science.

Students start by either taking the Boy Student Page or the Girl Student Page from the folder. This page includes a place for students to write their name. It contains the instructions, which state, "From the cards, choose what YOU look like. Write the letter on the blank line." Parts they must choose include:

* My hair

* My eyes

* My nose

* My mouth

* My glasses

* My clothes

* My shoes

Starting with their hair, they choose the picture that looks most like them and write the corresponding letter in the blank on their worksheet. Below, there are two boxes. Students draw a picture of themselves in the box on the left and draw themselves as if they were an iguana on the right. This learning center includes an instruction page so students can complete the activity independently.

The activity includes all of the body part detail cards, as well as instructions for the teacher on how to cut them out and place them in an envelope.