ATTITUDES, ETHICS AND PERSPECTIVES
NOTE: Our page on attitudes and perspectives is under development. Please send us any good activities, exercises you know on these topics.
The activities are marked with colour codes according to the age group they are suited to:
 - Primary (6 -9 years)
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 - Middleschool (10 –13)
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 - Secondary (14-16)
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 - College (17+)
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- First Impressions - promotes reflection about the subconcious evaluations we make about people from their appearance and body language. This excercise only works for people who don't already know each other.
- Picture Game - an introductory excercise that shows how easy it is to judge people in advance.
- Trans Siberian Railway - promotes reflection about our assumptions about people with different stations in life/ethnic backgrounds etc. Helps the participants to become aware of their own prejudices, and reflect over whether it is possible to live without prejudices.
- Dots or stickers - gives the participants an insight into how we communicate our identity with groups we belong to, while simultaneously rejecting groups we do not belong to.
- The Group Game - illustrates that people are complex, and can be classified in many different ways, and that there are many ways of looking at them.
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Bullying and communicationn
- What is behaviour? - stimulates the participants to reflect over what shapes their behaviour.
- Communication excercise - helps the students to understand that all knowledge is learnt, and that what we take for granted may not necessarily be obvious for others.
- Baffa Baffa - stimulates reflection around cultural differences, and how "stupid" one feels (and looks!) when one is in a situation where one does not understand the correct way to act.
- A role play about attitudes - gives the students insight in where everything we are surrounded by has its origin, and at the same time stimulates to a discussion of prejudices.