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Lisa Campbell
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Ideas for activities! Let's brainstorm...
April 3, 2004 @ 02:07 AM
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Hey everyone!
Thank you so much for signing onto this project page. If you have any thoughts of simple activities to do in the classroom involving TIG please post them here. I am so excited to see all of your innovative ideas. Here is an example of a possible activity that I have written up. Any criticism is welcome:
Purpose:
Students will effectively brainstorm aspects of their community that they would like to change. Students should be encouraged to talk from their experiences. Examples of issues; poverty, homelessness, racism, violence, classism, environmental destruction, etc.
Activities:
1. INSPIRE!
The purpose of this activity is to get students thinking about what they value in life. What are the things in life that are worth standing up for? What Inspires you to get up in the morning? What are the things that you value most in life? What are you passionate about?
Help students to focus their values by filling out the TakingITGlobal Action Guide before moving onto the next steps!
2. Wipe OUT!
(source: Artist Youth Educators International)
This activity facilitates students in expressing what they want to change in this world. Youth have inherited a world that’s full of problems; environmental destruction, human rights abuses, inequality, etc. Doing the Wipe OUT! This exercise helps students to realize that they’re not alone and that their fellow classmates and their community share a lot of the problems and issues that they’re concerned about.
Students will stand in a circle and will pass around a role of toilet paper. Students will be encouraged to take as many pieces of paper as they want. For each piece of toilet paper the student receives the student should offer one thing that they want to “Wipe Out” of the world. Encourage the students to think both on a local and a global scale. Ask the students to think of global issues that they’ve read about on the website; Racism, HIV/Aids, Ageism, etc. The students should be encouraged to also draw from personal experiences (local issues); e.g., “I hate it when my big brother bullies me” or “I hate it when the cops are always harassing my friends when we hang out in the park at night”.
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Re: Ideas for activities! Let's brainstorm...
May 10, 2004 @ 08:14 AM
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The WIPE out idea seems interesting,
One way can be to assign the students a country or two each week, dividing a class into groups students should be encouraged to do some research on different aspects of the country like trade, people, languages, clothes, traditions, sports, geography etc.
Then after a week the effort of each group be evaluated and finally a small report created with the help of the teachers to be featured on the Class/school notice board for rest of the week.
And at the end of the month a small quiz can be organized requiring the children to answer questions from different sections, the quiz can be accompanied by a small essay/paragraph regarding any of the countries covered in the month.
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