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Supporting Empathy Skills
Training
The ability to feel what another
person feels. Service learning. Responsible citizenship.
Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful
community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning
experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.
Illustration by
Daniel (11) from United States
,
2004
In many places people
have to travel a long way to go to school. Sometimes weather is very rough
for many days and even months. How could this have an influence on the education
of a community? What can be done to help with this situation?
(question 4)
"Our neighbors are our closest family." This
saying implies that we have to have a good relationship with our neighbors.
We can help each other if an emergency occurs. What else can you add to the
advantage of being "good neighbors"? Countries have neighbors too. How can
countries be "good neighbors"?
(question 6)
What is your family doing to protect the well
being of your community? What is your school doing? What is your country
doing? What are you doing? What else can be done?
(question 6)
What do you have to do now to make the world
better? Take in consideration your community, your country and the whole
world community and their problems. Write an essay expressing your ideas
and your feelings toward having a better future for all. Make a real commitment.
Send your essay to the list of students participating in the program module.
Print some of your favorite essays and organize them in a folder to share
with your community and your family. Enlist their help in shaping a better
future for all.
(activity 2)
What animals and plants are native to your region?
Are there any endangered animals where you live? How are they protected?
(question
12)
What are the main occupations of the parents
of the students in your group? How can you find out? As a class, brainstorm
ways to get this information. Share it with our group and then compare the
results with those in our project. Why do you think there are differences?
What does this tell you about your village, town or city?
(activity 1)
Meet your online friends in
KidCom
and have a 'Learn A New Language Day'. Try to learn some phrases in another
language. (activity
10)
You have been asked to come up with a suggestion
for new jobs in your area. What kind of jobs do you think could be created?
Why? How would you plan to create them and put them to reality? Share with
the others in the project how you will accomplish that. Make a 'Help Wanted'
page for a newspaper in your area with these new job descriptions.
(activity
11)
How do you think that you get educated by the
place you live in? Would you become different if you lived somewhere else?
In another country? Elsewhere in your own country?
(question
13)
Arrange for a
KidCom
meeting and discuss education. Compare notes on the weather, the animals
that teach you, subjects you like and other things that educate you.
(activity 6)
What does it mean to show respect for someone?
How do you feel when someone respects you?
(question
2)
How are kids accepted where you live when they
come from another country or culture?
(question
3)
Do you think that there is a prejudice in your
area? How would you define prejudice? Share experiences of prejudice, when
you felt it and when you showed prejudice if you have.
(question
7)
Write a short story about a new student in a
school who has recently moved from another country. Be sure to use good
descriptive words to capture the emotions new students in a school might
feel. (activity
5)
Do you feel that people accept you for who you
are? Do kids at school respect your space and right to be yourself? Do kids
make fun of kids who are "different?"
(question 1)
Are there some kids that you dislike so much
that you think they shouldn't be around you? Is that right? Do you make life
miserable for other kids? Do you have a right to do that?
(question 2)
Do you think family life is different for those
who are adopted? (question
6)
Is it common to see children from other parts
of the world adopted by families in your country? Are these children encouraged
to retain their nationality and cultural heritage? Are they accepted into
your society without prejudice?
(question 10)
Do kids in some countries have more freedoms
to express their opinion? Ask your friends in this project from other countries
what kinds of decisions they are able to make for themselves
(question 4)
Did you ever wonder who makes the soccer balls
or footballs that you play with? Many kids your age like to wear jeans. They
are comfortable and are great for hanging out with your friends. Do you know
who sewed your jeans? Hungry? Let's stop at a favorite fast food shop and
get a special meal for kids. They have cute toys in their boxed meals. But
wait, who made those toys?
(introduction
question)
What are 10 things that all kids everywhere should
have? Tell the group why you think these 10 are the most important things.
See activity #1 below. Using each class Bill of Rights work together as a
whole group and create one "Kids' Bill of Rights" for this project
(question 1)
Do you think all kids have these rights today?
(question 2)
Do you know any places where kids do not have
the rights you listed above? What are the rights that these kids are lacking?
Do you think this is fair? Do you think there is a way to make things better
for them? (question
7)
Is it important what a kid looks like whether
you choose him or her for a friend?
(question 6)
Would you consider having a friend with another
skin color than your own? Do you think this would cause a problem for you?
Tell us why or why not. How could you solve such a problem?
(question 7)
Do you know how it feels not to have a
friend? If you were ever in this situation how did you finally make new friends?
Was there one person who was very kind to you who helped you meet new friends?
(question 9)
For a whole week do something nice for your
classmates but do it secretly. Think of little kindnesses you can do without
telling the person you did it.
(activity 3)
Make a short role play about bullying
where 4-5 actors take part. Decide in the group how your play shall end...
with a happy or sad ending. Write the text and send it to the list. Print
out the role plays which you receive by e-mail and play them in class. Let
us know what you think about the plays you have received by e-mail.
(activity 3)
When older members of a family become ill and
need care during the day is it the custom in your country for younger family
members to care for the elderly or are they generally placed in homes for
the aged? (question
24)
Look at a map of the world and identify some
places where people are leaving their homelands. What is the country where
your ancestors came from? Have any of your relatives left their original
homeland for another? Why did they move?
(question 4)
Do you think moving to another homeland involves
sacrifices or hardships? What are some of the sacrifices that your ancestors
might have made in order to move?
(question 5)
Pretend that you are one of your ancestors who
has moved to a far away country. Write a letter to one of your family members
back "home" and tell about your journey. What means of travel did you take?
How long was the trip? What hardships did you have to
endure?(activity
7)
Take a story that an older relative has told
you, write it on special paper, illustrate it and design an appropriate cover.
Display the stories in your class.
(activity 2)
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