This icebreaker activity helps students explore power and understand the systems in play that create and perpetuate privilege and oppression. Recommended for grades 5-8. Time: several days of a 45-minute class
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Psychology
In Your Face: Reclaiming Billboards
Billboards are omnipresent in most communities and on many roadways. These in-our-face ads can have a powerful influence on us. Students explore issues surrounding billboards and the values billboard ads promote and design new billboards that help reclaim their visual space and restore value in their communities and culture. Recommended for grades 9 and up….
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Where Are the People Like Me?
Students assess examples of media (catalogs, magazines, books, etc.) to consider who is (and isn’t represented) and to explore the impact of lack of diversity in media and their own rich experiences with diversity. Recommended for grades 4-10. Time: 45-60 minutes
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Magazine Scheme: Are We Here?
Students explore articles, images, and ads in magazines targeted to teen girls to explore messages about women and girls and the effect of those messages on young women and men. (The activity can also be modified to explore appropriate men’s magazines and messages about men and boys.) Recommended for grades 7-12. Time: 2 class periods…
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What Do We Need?
What do humans need to be happy and fulfilled? What are our highest needs? What happens when our needs don’t get met? This activity uses Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as a springboard for exploring needs. Recommended for grades 9 and up. Time: 45-60 minutes Common Core Standards for this activity (pdf): Download Common Core…
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¿A Quién Acaricias y A Quién Te Comes?
Conduzca a estudiantes en una actividad que explora por qué tratamos tipos diferentes de animales diferentemente, y cómo podemos aprender a verlos con ojos diferentes. Recomendado para grados 5 y mayor Duración: 60 minutos
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El Factor Guay
Ayuda a los participantes a pensar en el concepto “guay” desde un nuevo punto de vista y a definirse uno mismo explorando qué es guay, quién decide lo que es guay y las diferentes maneras de defnir guay. Recomendado para grados 7-12 Duración: 90-120 minutos
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Estudiantes tienen que explorar como se afectan los anuncios a sus vidas y analizar lo que tratan vender o lo que tratan esconder. Recomendado para grados 5 y mayor Duración: 45-60 minutos
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