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Lesson 3.1 Creating yourself
Who are you?
How do you know?
The question really is, "How do you define yourself?"
How do you see yourself?
The Book of Mistakes (library)
Lesson 3.2: Valuing yourself and understanding differences.
Watch, "Identity and Values"
Write down 5 things that you like to do or like about yourself.
Let's figure out the value behind the items on your list.
Let's see who has some of the same values as you do.
Read: Thelma the Unicorn (School Library)
Chrysanthemum (School Library)
'The Emoji Movie' Official Teaser Trailer (2017)
Lesson 3.3: Emotions
How do you figure out how a person feels? What ways do you use to figure it out?
Take a look at the pictures in the book. Find three pictures that show you an emotion. How do you know?
Name some emotions: List them.
Watch "The Emoji Movie" official Trailer.
Click on the the bar below: Emoji
Discuss: What tells you the emotion of each emoji? Could they have two emotions at once? List some good emotion words and ask kids to act out.
Create a two emotion Emoji.
Lesson 3.4: Reading People and Making Assumptions
Show the face of a family member when they were mad: Look around.
What similarities do you see?
How about really happy? How about sad?
We learn how to read people by reflecting on our experience with emotion. So when you see people smiling, you think they are happy.
Could people hide how they feel with a smile?
Define the word intentions: A plan that a person has in their head for what they are going to do.
Can people hide their intentions?
Introduce the following terms: Intuitive, generalize and projection. Define and apply them to today’s lesson.
Look at the pics below.
What do you think about these people?
Lesson 3.5: Uniqueness (part 1)
Watch: "We are all different"
Discuss contrast and similarity. What do they mean? How does that play out with friends?
Use the three squares to make a person. Small square create a head with a face. Medium square - create the legs. Large square make the torso. Create each and make them colorful
Lesson 3.6: Uniqueness (part 2)
Get a head, torso and legs from the pile. You may not have your own pieces back.
Tape the pieces together.
Name your person.
Use 3 adjectives to describe your person.
Your class needs to help you come up with words.
Talents, skill etc.
Discuss judging people by their looks. Many times we generalize our past and project it onto experiences and people without giving people a chance.
Lesson 3.7: Virtues and Vices
Explain the words: Moral - Definition: A standard of behavior that is acceptable or unacceptable.
Virtue- Definition: behavior showing high moral standards.
Vice - Definition: really immoral (bad) behavior.
What is one thing about yourself that you would like to change?
What is one thing about yourself that you think is really cool?
Read: Abenaki Legend
Who did you like in the story? Why?
Who did you dislike? Why?
Big question:
· Do you ever show any of the same vices as the person that you chose?
· How could you fix it?
*Allowed students to come up with list of adjectives describing the young girl. Told them that this list is actually how each of them came into the world. Discussed the idea of a snow globe with muddy water…stuff happens that fills us up with ideas about ourselves that’s not real. We try to solve problems without seeing the real problems.
African tribe that circles a naughty person helping a person to remember who they are. Help each other remember who they are when you see them doing the wrong thing.
Lesson 3.8: Learning to communicate.
Some people get really nervous when being around other people and having to talk.
Does this ever happen to you?
Here are some pointers: Watch, "Saying what you mean"
What was one thing that you think will help you to communicate better? Why?
Here's one other thing you have to remember: Sometimes people forget to listen because they are thinking about what they want to say
Take a look at Connected Comments
What did you notice?
Lesson 3.9: Thought
Do you ever think things about yourself that you never really tell anyone?
Write down something that you think about yourself that no one really knows. You will not be called on to share it. You may share but you do not have to.
Is this thought really real?
Watch: You are not your thoughts.
Do you think that you can regulate your thoughts? Ask:
Is the thought real?
What could you say in place of your thought?
What do you really want?
Lesson 3.10: Information Technology: The use of hardware, software, services, and supporting infrastructure to manage and deliver information using voice, data, and video.
What is a skill?
What skills do you think are necessary for people to work in this field?
Where did they learn those skills?
What is the coolest thing that you saw?
Does it make you willing to work now for that reward later?
How do we know how to do all of this stuff?
Lesson 3.11: Ingenuity
Define the term, "Ingenuity"
Watch the video.
What impressed you the most?
What skills did those inventor's have?
How do you think they got those skills?
Good ideas usually come from solving a problem. What problem do you think needs a solution?
What good ideas do you have?
Lesson 3:12: Manufacturing
What does this word mean?
How is stuff manufactured? Raw materials into something to sell.
Who is involved in the process?
Who gets paid?
What is a cottage industry?
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