Summit Day Activities

We are posting here all the instructions for the activities for the Summit Day. Please make this site available to your students, so they can have these instructions for all of the activities at their fingertips. We are attempting to make the day paper-free as much as possible, so you can share the materials with them in advance.

Ice Breaker

Divide into the small groups that you have been assigned to (A1, B2, etc.).

1. Share your name, where you are from, and how you are feeling today.

2. What would people on social media say about you based on your posts? OR What do you want to be known for?

3. What is a story from the news that you remember and why?

4. If you could write an article about 1 topic that everyone in the world would read, what would be the topic?

After everyone in the group has answered the above questions,

1. Pick a team name.

2. Take a team selfie.

3. Create a team WhatsApp group.

Exhibit Missions

In the same group with which you did the ice breaker, complete the attached scavenger hunt by clicking on the link:

Exhibit Missions!

After the Exhibit Missions, you will meet in larger groups (all A groups together, all B groups together) for the guided tour of the exhibit, led by 12th grade Diplomacy students.

Group Photo Essay Activity - 30-40 minutes

Imagine you are a team of citizen journalists, and you want to share a story with people from all around the world. This is your chance!

Part One: Set Up

1. Create a WhatsApp group for your team, if you haven't already.

2. The name of your WhatsApp group is your team name.

3. Use your team selfie for your Whatsapp group profile photo.

Part Two: Creating an original Team Photo-Essay

A photo-essay is a series of original photographs that communicates a message or creates emotions in the viewer. Your group will take 4-6 photographs for the Team Photo-Essay.

You can choose between two topics:

1- Profile of a person. A great way to get to know someone is to profile them in a photo essay.

Pick 2-3 people from your group and interview them.

Get to know them and a few facts about them (about their hobbies, their dreams, their family etc...)

Turn the interviews into short texts + take 2-3 photos of each person you interview. These photos must tell us something about who they are.

2- Contrasts. A contrast is a clear difference between two or more things.

We are surrounded by contrasts: Shapes, colors, cultures, natural and artificial etc...

Contrasts and differences are what make our world rich and interesting. Your group needs to create a photo essay about contrasts.

Instructions: You will work as a team! Be creative. You can go anywhere you want around the museum. You must take original photos for the purpose of this task.

1. Your group will take 4-6 photos.

2. Write a one-sentence caption for each photo.

3. Write a paragraph to describe the whole photo-essay.

4. Be sure to include a title page, giving your photo essay a name, writing the names and schools of the students on the team, and the date you attended the summit day.

5. When you arrive home, one representative from the group will put together the entire photo essay on a Canva Storyboard. Choose a template from this link.

6. Here is an example

7. Download and send the finished work to your teacher by tomorrow. Your teacher will coordinate with the other teachers in the group to decide which photo essay to forward to Sassie for consideration for uploading to the site.

The chosen photo essay from each session will be posted on the Diplomacy WPP site!