Story Line The movie takes you through the life story of Forrest Gump, a man with an intellectual disability who was still able to live a full and active live, chock full of coincidences that turned out to be positive life experiences.
Teaching With This Movie Intelligence Bell Curve
Create your own bell curve diagram, labelling it with definitions of standard scores, percentile ranks, standard deviations, and stanine scores.
Idea #2 Low IQ
Create a list of common childhood disorders, such as autism, cerebal palsy, lead poisoning, muscular dystrophy, Fragile X, etc, and identify which disorder includes low intelligence as a characteristic.
