Find a story about Mickey Mouse and explore his creation. Find these stories online or go to the Disney Archive to read about Mickey Mouse. TIME magazine posted "A Brief History of Mickey Mouse" that you may also want to consider.
Consider working on a KWL chart as a group, since students may already know some quick facts about Mickey Mouse. Once this is done, students can color a picture of Mickey Mouse and write down a single fact about what they learned about him. Consider buying a coloring book and distribute various images of Mickey Mouse, or you may choose to make a copy of a single image and have students create a background for Mickey Mouse. Don't make this activity just about coloring and writing, find this opportunity to explore character descriptions, history, and the biography of Walt Disney.
For older students, perhaps consider having students look into the biography of Walt Disney. Students can also establish a time line Walt Disney animation of Mickey Mouse, from Steamboat Willie to current exposure like the Disney channel. Interactive time line websites like Timetoast have great potential for activities like this. Plenty of information about Walt Disney is available at this Walt Disney website.
There is so much history, culture, and influence of what came of Walt Disney and Mickey mouse. Take this opportunity to explore it and allow your students to learn a bit about popular culture icon. In the end, treat students to a clip of a Disney film, or play a board like Screenlife games like Scene It? which is known create trivia around movie and television show. They have a Disney version. If anything, use the DVD to help with trivia questions.
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