Human Library

Human Library Activity

Use this anytime students need to learn to get along and stop judging each other.

Book Ms Gurthie run the Human Library as a library programming activity in core class or during your grade's Healthy Kids time. Or do it in your classroom, SEL, or club by following the directions below and tweaking it to suit your studnets needs

Thanks to Ms Thornburg for sharing this idea.

See it at https://humanlibrary.org/

Human Library Activity

Step by step Instructions

Show or summarize the link of how it works in Copenhagen if desired
Sit students in groups
Hand out to each participant a paper, post-it or notecard
Instruct students to write the title of what they would talk about pretending they wrote a book
1. example:
  1. All about ____ (topic student loves)
  2. Overcoming ___ (personal struggle)
  3. How I Won at ___ (personal victory)
  4. ___________: a fantastic __________ Their name and an adjective or action or metaphorical symbol that describes them
  5. Imagining _________( an invention or createive story they want to tell)
When done lay or tape the titles on a table or wall in front of group
Choose one person in each group to be librarian.
Participants go one at a time to “check out a story by showing the librarian the book they want to "read" (they can decide together to “read the tilt
Librarian then calls on the "author" of that “title”
that person tells their story to the small group.

Can also be done one on one but this is more structured and keeps an eye on the content they are sharing.

Links

International Website https://humanlibrary.org/

This lesson as a doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P_BfTS_-Xasl4dWTMdDI9md6C1lDD6a1XS1Iyjxdem4/edit?usp=sharing

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