Twenty Questions

• Post category:Age 13-18 / Age 5-13 / Collaboration / Critical Thinking

A great game in so many ways! Have one player think of an object. The other players will need to ask yes/no questions in an effort to guess what the…

Continue Reading Twenty Questions

Try It On

• Post category:Age 13-18 / Age 19+ / Age 5-13 / Collaboration / Compassion / Conflict Resolution / Connection / Courage / Critical Thinking

n exploring conflict, commit to trying on different perspectives in the conflict. Draw out of a bowl a particular role with an attached explanation. Play that role in teams of…

Continue Reading Try It On

Treasure Hunts

• Post category:Age 5-13 / Collaboration / Critical Thinking

Take youth on team treasure hunts. Ask critical questions along the way to solve a problem. With each treasure is a clue to solving the problem. You can have youth…

Continue Reading Treasure Hunts

Three Things About You

• Post category:Age 13-18 / Age 19+ / Age 5-13 / Compassion / Courage / Critical Thinking

An activity that allows for exploration of diversity and elimination of stereotypes. Ask each person to write down three things that no one would know about them just by looking…

Continue Reading Three Things About You

Wagonload of Compassion

• Post category:Age 13-18 / Age 19+ / Age 5-13 / Birth to Age 5 / Collaboration / Commitment / Compassion / Connection / Critical Thinking

Share individual stories of people in need. Identify what everyone can contribute. Where could we find the needed materials? Together as a group, deliver the donated items to a nearby…

Continue Reading Wagonload of Compassion

What Should We Do?

• Post category:Age 13-18 / Age 5-13 / Birth to Age 5 / Collaboration / Commitment / Compassion / Conflict Resolution / Connection / Courage / Critical Thinking

Show pictures and/or video of certain situations at school and in the surrounding neighborhood. Examples include: seeing garbage on the floor, an elderly person dropping their cane, a person not…

Continue Reading What Should We Do?

Thankenstein

• Post category:Age 5-13 / Birth to Age 5 / Collaboration / Commitment / Courage

Adult writes at the top of a blank paper, “I’m so grateful that if I were a monster created by a mad scientist, my name would be Thankenstein.” Give each…

Continue Reading Thankenstein

What Would They Say?

• Post category:Age 13-18 / Age 5-13 / Compassion

Ask youth to critically think about how others might respond to their words and actions. “What would they say or think if you did or said _____?” Expand the effect…

Continue Reading What Would They Say?

Technology Blackouts

• Post category:Age 13-18 / Age 19+ / Age 5-13 / Birth to Age 5 / Collaboration / Commitment / Conflict Resolution

Set aside times during the day when no one in the family touches technology. Turn off all cell phones, televisions, computers, etc. Youth who are always engaged in technology are…

Continue Reading Technology Blackouts

Where in the World?

• Post category:Age 5-13 / Birth to Age 5 / Collaboration / Compassion / Connection / Critical Thinking

Show youth a variety of pictures of celebrations involving young people from around the world. Place cut-outs of known children/students into the celebration picture (make sure to rotate the pictures).…

Continue Reading Where in the World?