Activities For Teaching The Values

Activities for Teaching the Values
Think-Pair-Share
 Answering the questions after reading the Legends
 Discussing brainstorm questions
 Conclusions activity – which teaching do they think is the most important or are they all
important together?
Create a badge
 Create a badge/banner/emblem/coat of arms for the teaching; cover it with words, pictures, or
phrases associated with it. Display them at their desks as a reminder to themselves to follow it.
 Have badges for each teaching to award when students show/exemplify the teaching
 Create goals and have badges as awards for reaching those goals (digital or physical versions
would work)
Value Rock
 Ask each student to bring in a smooth rock about the size of a fist or purchase a bag of river
rocks and let each student choose a rock after they have been washed and dried. Ask each
student to use paint or permanent markers to write one Teaching on each stone; the one that is
the most important to them. They should share their understanding of why it seems important
to them, and an example of how the Teaching relates to their daily life.
Create growth goals

 Students choose the teaching they need to work on/do better at and make small goals to reach
that
 Students could be in pairs as ‘accountability partners’ helping each other track their progress
Summative presentation to class (groups or individual)

 Present on their favourite teaching or on all of the teachings
 Create a new teaching based on a school value or a different attribute
Talking/Sharing Circle
 Go around the circle having students answer the brainstorm questions, asking each student to
share their thoughts or examples for the teachings
Role-play scenarios to demonstrate proper following of individual teachings

 Mime
 Tableau
 Video
Poetry
 Create any number of types of poems to represent the teaching; haiku, acrostic, free verse, etc.
One-word stories
 Have everyone stand in a circle, each student says one word to build a cohesive and
collaborative story about the teaching. (Can split into smaller groups and possibly record their
stories as they tell them)
Storytelling
 Each student writes a story personifying the teaching
 Re-write a fairy tale to emphasize the teaching
Look at the Medicine Wheel and how the teachings connect to it

 Each student could make their own medicine wheels, and choose where they feel each teaching
should be placed
3-2-1 charts – 3 learned, 2 interesting, 1 question

 To solidify the teaching as well as to pull more data from individual students about what they
are interested in, and where the gaps are still
Text, Tweet, Blog

 Students must demonstrate the teaching through a text (short with abbreviations), a tweet (up
to 140 characters), and a blog post (a paragraph or two).
Comic Strip – digital or physical

 Draw the legend as a comic
 Create your own legend to demonstrate the teaching
 Draw a scenario where the teaching should be followed
What you do well, what you can do better

 Students can quickly identify what they are good at for the teaching and what they could work
on improving
Exemplifiers (people)
 Find/research people (historical or current) who embody/exemplify the teaching and write a
short biography and explanation for how they represent that teaching
Mind Mapping/Web – Connect to subjects

 Determine how you can connect the teachings to specific subject/topics/concepts being taught
in all subjects at school
Quick writes
 short paragraph about their thoughts on the lesson or any questions they have
Analyze a picture
 Find a picture or painting that could show the teaching in some way and have the students
analyze how that picture is used to represent the teaching
 Could have students look for pictures or paintings that represent a teaching and then write
about it
 Imagine and tell/write a descriptive story about the picture, describing what happened before
and after the ‘moment in time’ that is captured by the picture
 Ex. Respect, Love, Bravery, Wisdom, Humility, Honesty, Truth
How would you react to this situation?

 Present a scenario for the students and ask them how they would react to it, and what teachings
it is connected to; they could respond in written, out loud, discussing in partners, acting it out
o You find out that one of your friends has been taking items of yours without asking.
o It is almost time for your group to present your project in front of the class, one of your
group members whispers to you that they don’t think they can go up.
o You gain possession of the basketball during a game in gym and you notice that a
student who doesn’t get passed to often is open near the net.
Find a Song
 Create a list of songs, or have students find songs that are about the teaching and then analyze
the lyrics
o Ex. Respect, Love, Bravery, Humility, Wisdom, Honesty, Truth
Be Unique (good for Honesty or Truth)

 This classroom game is about being unique and about getting to know each other better.
Everyone stands in a circle. Every student has to say something unique about themselves. For
example: “I have four brothers.” If another student also has four brothers, the students who
shared the ‘not-so-unique’ aspect has to sit down. The goal is to stand as long as possible and
therefore to share very special things about yourself that no one else typifies.

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Create growth goals

Summative presentation to class (groups or individual)

Role-play scenarios to demonstrate proper following of individual teachings

Look at the Medicine Wheel and how the teachings connect to it

3-2-1 charts – 3 learned, 2 interesting, 1 question

Text, Tweet, Blog

Comic Strip – digital or physical

What you do well, what you can do better

Mind Mapping/Web – Connect to subjects

How would you react to this situation?

Be Unique (good for Honesty or Truth)

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