Activities to Engage Female Students in After
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Activities to Engage Female Activities that focus on: Students in After School Self-esteem Programs! Bullying / Relational Aggression
Te am b u i l d i ng
Life Skills Gabriela B. Delgado, M.P.A., M.Ed. Student Support Services Resources 858-569-5440
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Self-esteem / Empowerment Have students read the words Show segment from “MissRepesentation” out loud Group discussion + “Brag Bag”
Mighty Finger Who can relate to “Evolution” + Media Messages feeling like this “Truth Card” at one Influential Women, Influential You time or
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“Brag Bag” “Brag Bag”
Adapted from: Girls In Real Life Situations, Open discussion with “self-esteem Research Press, 2007. photo” You need: Small paper bags, strips of paper, markers/pens What contributes to high self- esteem? What contributes to low Students complete as many of their 10 strips of self-esteem? paper (“I’m awesome because….” “I rock because…”)
Focus on ALL your skills, talents, Have students decorate their bags etc. Students share what’s inside their bags
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From: “Mean Girls: 101 1/2 Creative Use the ink pad to have each girl put their thumb print on the paper (you can use half sheets). Using Strategies and Activities for Working the thumb print they can decorate the print by with Relational Aggression” drawing animal faces, flowers, or anything else that represents who she is. You can have multiple Lesson helps girls find their identity thumb prints on paper. and their unique characteristics Stress that each fingerprint is different. Have girls write at least three special traits that make her You need: Plain piece of paper, Ink different. Have student share out and discuss different ways to validate and encourage each Pad, Pencils/Pens/Crayons/Markers other.
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“Evolution” + Media Messages Evolution + Media Messages
Group Discussion Questions: Show video clip (YouTube search) What do you think?
Group discussion What did you notice in the video?
Show “before and after” pictures What surprised you?
What can we do? What other subtle things do advertisers do?
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Increase our level of knowledge Focus on a realistic body shape/size/weight
Pay attention to what media messages Focus on being healthy are really telling us Create your own magazine with positive Don’t buy into it! messages and REAL people
Write a letter to the magazine editors Post “before and after” pictures on social letting them know that what they are media to remind your friends (and doing negatively impacts teen girls. yourself) of the truth
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“Truth Card” Influential Women, Influential You
Provide each girl with an “Influential Use small size card-stock or playing Woman” handout- Download at http:// cards bit.ly/GenderServices (click on Resources) Cut out words, pictures, scrapbook paper Allow 2-3 minutes for girls to read the short biography Provide students with list of words or quotes to use Each student shares one thing that stood out from what they read Use Mod Podge to seal the card
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Bethany Hamilton– February 8, 1990 Helen Keller Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ) June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968 Born Jan. 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi, U.S. television talk the Open Women’s -show host and actress. After enduring an impoverished and troubled Bethany Hamilton was born in Lihue,titions. Hawaii. She Hamiltonwon first beganplace atpro surfing at an early age childhood, she became a news anchor for a local CBS television station in Tennessee at age 19. After graduating from Tennesse and entered many surfing compe Anne Frank (1929 e State Division of the NSSA and Rell Sun Menehune. In 2003, Hamilton was surfing in the -1945) Helen Keller was born into a loving family. Keller fell ill from brain fever, which caused her to loseUniversity, her she worked as a television reporter and anchor in Baltimore, Maryl sense of sight and hearing. Due to her blindness and deafness, it was hard to communicate with Keller. Her and, where she cohosted her first talk show from 1977 morning when a tiger shark attacked her and bit her left arm off to her shoulder. Three Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German led them to Anne Sullivan. 83, and in 1984 she moved to Chicago to host A.M. Chicago, which became that city's highest – -Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the parents traveled and met a specialist who weeks after her attack, Hamilton was back surfing. -rated morning show. Renamed The Oprah Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an an Winfrey Show in 1985, it was syndicated the following year, making her given up surfing due to her handicap but has worked with it. She has nex of rooms Sullivan had just graduated from the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts.. After moving She moved Keller the first African American woman to host a successful national Hamilton has not above her father’s office in to help Helen read, write and communicate Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After being betrayed to the Nazis, Anne, her family, and the into the Keller’s house in March of 1887 daytime talk show. The enormously popular show was noted for its uplifting and therapeutic tone. In 1986 Winfrey also formed adapted her surfboard to be longer and to have a handle to make paddling easier. her own others and herself to a nearby cottage, Sullivan was able to teach Keller words through sign language. Bytelevision the end production company, Harpo Productions, and in 20 Hamilton began competing in professional competitions again and has won first place in living with them were arrested and deported to Nazi conc 00 she launched O, the Oprah Magazine. In 2011 the Oprah Winfrey entration camps. In March of 1945, nine months after of the first night, Keller had learned how to sign 30 words. many of them. she was arrested, Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen luentialNetwork people, (OWN) like debuted on cable television, and later that year the final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show aired. Her acting -Belsen. She was fifteen years old. Her diary, saved during the Soul Surfer, an autobiography about her shark bite, which was turned Keller began attending school and began learning how to speak. Keller met many inf include the films The Color Purple (1985) and Beloved (199 credits Hamilton wrote war by one of the family’s helpers, Miep Gies, was first published in 1947. Today, her 8). In 2007, inspired by her own "humble beginnings" and disadvantaged diary has been translated into 67 Mark Twain, who helped fund her education. She was able to go to various colleges accompanied by into a movie. Sullivan, who would help translate and interpret lectures and texts. background, Oprah founded an All-Girls Leadership Academy to provide educational and leadership opportunities for academically ! languages and is one of the most widely read books i n the world. gifted girls from impoverished backgrounds in South Afric After college, Keller became a social activist. She fought for women’s suffrage, birth control and for better a who exhibited leadership qualities for making a difference in the world. “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, Helen Keller International and the American Civil Liberties rights for the disabled. Keller co-founded Her accomplishments as a television pioneer, producer, publisher, educator and philanthropist have established her as one of ' but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands and encouraging people and remains one of the most influential .” Union. She traveled the world speaking the most Created'by:'San'Diego'County'Office'of'Education,'Student'Support'Services'2014'' people ever. With her determination and hard work, she proved that anyone can accomplish anything. She respected and admired public figures today. died at the age of 88. ' Created by: San Diego County Office of Education Created by: San Diego County Office of Education, Student Support Services 2012 , Student Support Services 2012 ' Created'by:'San'Diego'County'Office'of'Education,'Student'Support'Services'2014' ' ' Imagine you are 10 years older than you are now. Place/draw a photo of yoruself in the box below and then write a biography about yourself and your accompllishments. What do you Influential Women, Influential You want your biography to say about you?
What do you have in common with these
women?
Stress that all women are resilient
Provide students with a blank paper…
what would their biography say about
them in 10 years?
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Bullying / Relational Aggression
Source: “Building Assets Getting-to-Know Activities in Elementary: Group Activities for Helping Thumb-ball Kids Ages 8-12 Succeed.” Search Institute, 2004. “Back in the Day”
“People Search”
“Me Too”
Healthy Friendship Wheel
Handprint of Influence
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Thumb-ball “Back in the Day”
Can focus on teambuilding, Introduce yourself and share one thing emotions, empathy, bullying you did “back in the day”
Create your own with beach ball or Favorite Sport Activity YouParticipated In purchase online Hobby Favorite Book Show You Watched Create small cards with questions as Favorite Band Game/toy You Played an alternative
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PEOPLE SEARCH
. The person with the most Directions: Find a person who can answer the following descriptions
boxes filled wins! Note: Each person can only sign one box. Volunteers share anything they want about Find someone who… Likes to sing. Plans to go to Is obsessed with Has an older Knows how to college. Facebook. sister. salsa dance. • Ask interesting themselves to the group.
facts When others hear something they share in Knows how to Is confident. Speaks a second Has a younger Went to the speak another • Debrief and stress language. brother or sister. same elementary language. school as you. common with speaker, they say “me too”. commonalities
• Who has something Likes to ride Uses Instagram. Plays a sport. Knows how to Has traveled cook. outside roller coasters. Allow 45 seconds per person/volunteer California. in common with
someone else? When done, highlight the comments that Has lived in Likes to watch Has a pet. Likes to read. Has a driver’s license. another state. reality shows. • Who learned received a lot of “me too” from group something about
Knows how to Watches reality Was born in the Has family in Does not know play a musical shows. same month as another how to swim. instrument. someone they don’t you. country. Why is it important or helpful to learn about
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Handprint of Influence Handprint of Influence
Five people and/or Variation: experiences that have influenced/shaped Have students list only positive your life (one per influences on one handprint and finger) negatives on another
Bullet points of how Stress the importance of our person/experience has influence on others (tie to exclusion, shaped your life bullying, etc.)
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Te am b u i l d i ng “Think Fast”
Te am w o r k
“Think Fast” Promotes:
“The Human Knot” Te am w o r k
Risk Taking (sharing/disclosure/bonding) Healthy competition
“40 Thought Provoking Questions” Brain break “Hot Seat Scramble”
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Create a list of “things” or flashcards of “things” 1) With two or more players, one player draws a “Things” card (or you read the category from your list). Use a 30- Things found at the park second timer, and have all players write as many words as they can think of that relate to the “Things” category. The winner of each round is the team with the most words. Things found at the airport
Things that are cold 2) Use as flashcards and have players name a certain quantity of items from the card (3, 5, 10, etc.). This can Things that start with the letter “A”, etc. be a timed activity or not.
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“The Human Knot” “The Human Knot”
Ideas: Instructions Give teams a time limit on this activity to make it more challenging. Groups of 10-12 are ideal. You can also mute participants throughout the activity. Arrange group members in a circle, standing shoulder to shoulder. Instead of making groups start over when the chain is broken you Tell everyone to put their right hand up in the air, and then grab the can create penalties like muting a group member. hand of someone across the circle from them. Debrief/ discussion questions: Everyone then puts their left hand up in the air and grabs the hand of a different person. How did it feel to be successful/ unsuccessful?
Check to make sure that everyone is holding the hands of two different How did it feel to be mute? Blind? people and that they are not holding hands with someone directly next to them. What strategy did your team end up using to complete the task?
Tell group members to untangle themselves to make a circle without Who were the leaders in this activity? breaking the chain of hands. Did the team reach consensus on a plan of action? What process did If group members break the chain they need to start over. the team go through to reach consensus?
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“40 Thought Provoking “40 Thought Provoking Questions” Questions”- Samples
Have students pick a number and/or • What can you do today that you were not capable of select a card. yesterday? • What’s been on your mind lately? They can answer the question for • In order of importance, how would you rank: happiness, money, love, health, fame? themselves for pose to the group. • What word best describes the way you’ve spent the last month of your life? Facilitate group discussion. • What is the #1 motivator in your life right now? • What memory from this past year makes you smile the Access questions via Dropbox Link most? • What’s the number one change you need to make in your life in the next twelve months? Alternate: Use “Table Topics” Discussion • What have you done that you are truly proud of?
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Goal Setting
Priorities / Time Management Show Rocks in Jar video (search for “It’s Puzzling” options on YouTube) or do
S.M.A.R.T. Goals illustration OR
Self-Care Show “The Time You Have (in Jelly
Bingo + Plan Beans)” video
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Time Management Tips
Source: “Building Assets in Elementary: Group Activities for Helping Kids Ages 8-12 Succeed.” Use a day planner or calendar Search Institute, 2004. Make a “to do list” (weekly or daily)
Plan ahead- avoid procrastination
Put first things first
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“It’s Puzzling” “It’s Puzzling”
Debrief Questions
Was this competition fair? Why or why not? Source: “The Best of Building Assets Together.” Search Institute Press. 2008. What other competitions in life aren’t fair?
Divide your students into two groups. What’s it like to work together when you Give one group a 24-piece puzzle know what you’re doing? What if you don’t know what you’re doing? (without the picture). Give the other group a 24-piece puzzle with the Why/how does it help to see where you’re picture. going when you’re working as a group?
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Assignment due today Essay due in a week Exam tomorrow Hobbies Car breaks down Relationships
late for school Exercise Important
Some phone calls Video games Interruptions Social Media Other people’s problems Too much computer time
Peer pressure Time wasters Not Important Not
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Self-Care Bingo Values
“You’re House is on Fire…”
What three things do you take with you?
Discuss with your group.
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Source: “Building Assets Use “Values Ranking” Handout- have in Elementary: Group each student complete it. Discuss. Activities for Helping Kids Ages 8-12 Succeed.” Search Institute, 2004. What are you doing today that is in line with your values? What are you doing that is not in line with your values?
Alternate handout: 1,000 Points for Life.
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Self-Care Plan Self-Care Plan
I#can#take#care#of#my#body#by…# My#Self(Care#Plan# Lifestyle#changes#what#will#help…#
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My#goal…# Opening discussion: What is self-care? Why is it important? !
Play “Self-Care Bingo” People#who#can#support#me…#
Discuss ways that girls practice self-care (based on the cards selected for game) Spiritual#Self(Care…#
Emotional#Self(Care…# Alternate activity: Self-care assessment
Have each student complete “Self-Care Plan”
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