February 22–26
Theme: Relationships in Real and Digital Spaces
Skill Building: Kindness Online
Person-Centered Thinking & Safety
Monday, February 22, 2021
Black History Month
Learn about the Firsts in Sports this week!
Maurice Ashley is the first African American Chess Grand Master: Read about him here and see a short video with him here
Today happens to be...
Check In & Introduce the Week (10 min)
Theme for the week: Relationships in Real and Digital Spaces
Skill for the week: Kindness online
Show & Share (10-min)
Got any lucky objects or clothes? Tell us how they came into your life and
why they are lucky.
Tomorrow's Show & Share: Show us your favorite keepsake from childhood. What does it
make you remember?
Plan Your Week (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Review the Weekly pages and remind everyone we are coming up on the end of the month. Guide participants to plan out their week. See if anyone can use the stamp tool in the annotation menu. It's a good one for calendar stuff.
- Enter any appointments and don't-forget items
- Any celebrations to mark? Just because we can't throw someone a birthday party doesn't mean we can't call or send a message. Write it down.
- Set a goal or goals for the week ahead
- What are your priorities? family? friends? fun? chores? Finance? Health? It's your life. Make it great.
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Thematic Activity (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: Use the links below to guide a discussion on social media tools, who uses them, how and why. Don't encourage or discourage use. Instead help people state what they offer and decide their own level of interest in it.
(remember to click on graphics with the magnifier pointer to make them bigger and use CTRL and the + sign to enlarge images that don't offer a magnifier pointer)
Do you recognize it?
Look at these icons of different social media tools.
How many can we name?
Presenters: If you aren't sure of the name float a mouse over the logo and wait for the tool tip to tell you the name.
Now that we know their logos, let's look at the most popular ones in this infographic.
- Which one has the MOST users?
- Which one do people use for almost an hour every day?
- Which one is the OLDEST?
- Which ones do any of your group know or use?
Explains how big a billion really is as a number.
The Good and the Bad of Social Media
People want others to like them. Social media is a way for people to say what they think even if no one asked them. This video about HOW social media affects student athletes talks about the difficulty of being out in a public place where everyone can say whatever they want.
- What do you think about the effect of social media on mental health?
- If you use social media, how do you comment to others?
- What kinds of comments do you get FROM others?
- If something is "trending" does that mean it's good or important? If not, what does "trending" mean?
Skill Builder (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Guide the discussion to help participants understand that their own social media activities may be evaluated by others and that they can evaluate the behavior of others online too.
- How we behave on social media creates a record that other people can go look up.
- Sometimes, some people, forget that social media works that way and they post things online that others see as "red flags."
- A red flag is something that alerts us to a danger or a possible problem.
Imagine you are a business owner looking to hire a new employee. You want someone who will be responsible, honest and help you take good care of your customrs. You interview a few people who might be good but when you look up their social media you find these things. Do you still want to hire them?
- ALL their profiles are private and nothing is visible to the public. You can see their name but they show nothing at all to the public view.
- You see a number of photos in which they are taking an illegal substance.
- They have a website but it's not very interesting.
- You found a bunch of youtube videos where they are yelling angry opinions at the camera for a long time.
- They have a TON of pictures of their pets and food choices.
- You found a resume on their profile that is completely different than they one they gave you and you aren't sure which one is true.
- They have bad spelling in their posts.
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Survival Language (5-10 min)
Follow along with home worksheet to solve the crossword.
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Civics & Community Awareness
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Black History Month
Learn about the Firsts in Sports this week!
Althea Gibson was the first African American tennis player to compete at the U.S. National Championships in 1950, and the first Black player to compete at Wimbledon in 1951.
Today happens to be...
!!Tomorrow is PINK SHIRT DAY. Wear those pink shirts to promote compassion, empathy and kindness.
Check In & Recap Yesterday (5 min)
Social media-the options and the good and bad sides.
How your social media activity affects job searches or other ways people see you.
Show & Share (10-min)
Show us your favorite keepsake from childhood. What does it make you remember?
Tomorrow's Show & Share: What’s the best compliment you could get? What compliments
do you like to give others?
Thematic Activity 01 (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Read the story as a group. Use the questions below to tie the story to the theme for the week. Use the question set that was sent home to go further if your group is into it.
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- The story explains how Cassie and Kate know each other. What level of friendship do you think they have? Very close friends, acquaintances, community members or something else?
- Cassie clearly did not have any relationship to the man at her work who tried to kiss her. What word did she use that describes that?
- Rya, an independent adult, talks to the guy at the gym. It's a public place and she is with friends. She can get to know him very slowly by only meeting him at the gym or with friends for a long time before becoming better friends. What are some of the differences between Rya talking to that guy and talking to someone we don't know online?
PRESENTERS: Point out that peole online
- can hide who they really are
- are not in public view of other people
- can potentially locate information about us that we did not freely give them
Skill Builder (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Using the Life Skills Story guide the conversation to appreciating that odd is just something different than we are used to, or what we would do or like.
Let's look at these pictures of clothing from different countries that may seem ODD to us. If you saw someone wearing one of these outfits in the regular community you would certainly notice them. What are some kind ways to think about people who look or dress differently from us?
Here are some odd posts that have been on social media. What is the kind way to respond if someone posts something you find UNappealing or UNiteresting?
PRESENTERS: end on the awareness that the kind response to social media things you don't like or care about is to do NOTHING. Only respond to the things that you can say kind or positive things about.
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Survival Math & Social Justice (5-10 min)
Did you know that doing raises as percentages is unfair to the people who make the least money?
Use this interactive raise calculator to answer the question below.
PRESENTERS: Enter the % increase first then change the hourly rates for each person to determine the values.
Three people work at a company.
- Devary is the owner and pays themselves $100 per hour.
- Dina is the night manager and gets paid $35 per hour.
- Lisa is the custodian and gets paid $16 per hour.
Devary gets a new contract that is going to allow a 13% increase for EVERYONE.
- Calculate how many DOLLARS more each month each person will get.
- Is it fair for the person earning the least to get the smallest raise? Why or why not?
- What are other ways to do raises? What is fair or unfair about those ideas?
This video is about the modern problem with the world economy. Not very exciting but explains the problem really clearly.
Global Travesty of Wealth Distribution
Optional Level-Up
If you have time and your group wants to, review set 2 of the questions about the Life Skills Story.
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Well Being and Social Connection
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Black History Month
Learn about the Firsts in Sports this week!
Charile Sifford the first black goffer in the PGA find our more about him HERE
Today happens to be...
Check In (5 min)
(text)
Recap Yesterday (3 min)
Odd isn't necessarily bad, just different
Safety online means realizing the difference between a stranger online and a stranger in the real world.
Portfolio Planner (3-5-min)
Review your progress on your goals.
Anyone have to adjust their plan for the week? Reschedule an appointment? Add a to-do item?
Show & Share
What’s the best compliment you could get? What compliments do you like to give others?
Tomorrow's Show & Share: Who is the silliest super hero in your opinion? Why? Who is the most impressive superhero? Why?
Thematic Activity 01 (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Share the video and discuss best friends
Best Friends According to Kids
- Who is your best friend?
- How long have you known each other?
- What is their middle name?
- What is their best talent?
- What food do they hate?
- If you had a million dollars what would you get your best friend?
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Thematic Activity 02 (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: Use the worksheets at home to cut up choices of food and identify what would make a healthy plate. Show participants how people share their food choices in social media.
Building a healthy plate is important. Let's do this exercise and see if you would have a social-media worthy dish to photograph.
Cut up the squares of meal options*
Choose the ones that make up a healthy plate* and put them in the order you like
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Skill Builder (5-10 min)
Your best friend has to start making healthier food choices or her doctor says she'll be having a heart attack or stroke very soon. She has asked you to follow her on InstaGram and make sure that the meals she is eating reflect a healthier pattern.
How can you respond KINDLY to the following meal choices to encourage her when she's doing well and inspire her when she makes a less healthful choice?
PRESENTERS: together, look at each picture of a meal and decide on a kind, encouraging post to help our friend. Remember to describe the images out loud to everyone, or ask someone in the group to help with that.
Survival Language (5-10 min)
Can you choose the right version of each pair of homonyms to write a logical email?
Optional Level-Up
Choose the questions your group would like to tackle for reviewing the life skills story
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Rights & Self Advocacy
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Black History Month
Learn about the Firsts in Sports this week!
Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at a single Olympics. Read about her here
Today happens to be...
Check In & Recap Yesterday (5-10 min)
Best Friends
Being encouraging and polite in social media posts
Show & Share (10-min)
Who is the silliest super hero in your opinion? Why? Who is the most impressive superhero? Why?
Tomorrow's Show & Share: What's your favorite tool in the kitchen? Can you show us?
Thematic Activity 01 (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Guide the discussion toward the ways social media is controlled by the user and not the other way around.
Just like we want to be kind to others, we have to remember to be kind to ourselves. Social media can help us build our own self-esteem if we use it well. Review this article for ideas on managing your use of social media positively.
Anyone want to share their own experiences of positive feelings from social media? Any advice you have learned about how to manage your accounts?
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Thematic Activity 02 (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: Review the tips in the article and help participants identify the kinds of posts that should be blocked.
Read these tips and risks about chat rooms online.
- Which tips apply to social media posts?
- What kinds of posts should you block from you social media accounts?
- If you don't know what blocking is, review this video.
Skill Builder (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Help people identify ways to use social media for improving the world.
Read these 5 tips on how to use social media positively.
- How can you act on these ideas in your own life?
- Can these ideas also help other aspects of your life and relationships?
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Survival Math (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Remind viewers that FACTORS are numbers you multiply together, so 4 has factors of 1 and 4 because 1x4=4 but it also has the factor 2 because 2x2=4
Find a few prime numbers on this image
See how many you got right here
Optional Level-Up
Review any questions or life skills topics that your group found interesting
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Knowledge & Fun
Friday, February 19, 2021
Black History Month
Learn about the Firsts in Sports this week!
Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas is best known as the first African American to win the individual all-around event. She also won gold medals for the U.S. in the team competitions at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics! Read aboout her here
Today happens to be...
Some fairy tales are out of date and no longer talk about values we think are important today. That's when creative people re-write them.
For example, in the stories where the princess ALWAYS has to get married at the end can be retold so the princess goes off on an adventure of her own. OR, stories where a character who is treated as ugly and then becomes beautiful, are retold to show that the characters who mistreat someone for their appearance are actually the ugly ones. What fairy tale would you choose to re-tell?
Check In (5 min)
Greetings and happy weekend wishes
Recap Yesterday (3 min)
Make social media positive by controlling it yourself.
Blocking unwanted posters on social media
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Portfolio Planner - Wrap the MONTH! (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: The monthly wrap up is a time to celebrate achievements and things learned. Build awareness that our lives go into different areas like those on the pie chart on the monthly wrap up. We can choose the areas important to us and use the planner to focus on things that matter to us.
SAMPLE Fille out February Wrap-up
- Rate the week
- Done/Achieved
- Filling out the pie chart
- What am I PROUD of?
- What have I learned?
Show & Share
What's your favorite tool in the kitchen? Can you show us?
Next week's Show & Share: Share your favorite invention! We start a new month next week all about cultivating OPTIMISM. The first week uses inventions to explore optimistic people and ideas.
Thematic Wrap-up (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: Reinforce being kind online.
Even though this is for people going to school, it applies to all of us.
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FUN Time — FriYAY!!!
Comedy : Jim Gaffigan about Disney
Trivia options:
- Click the chips for the amount you want to bet
- Click the squares on the board to place the bet
- Click SPIN to see if you win.
Cool Tour of an Accessible computer lab
Fun Miniature Scenes created with Food and other household things. Scroll all the way to see all the cool images.
Survival Language
More homophones* -- words that SOUND alike
Optional Level-Up
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Choosing Fun Stuff to Do
Need some help deciding on an afternoon activity?
The activities are numbered. These numbers corrospond to brief activity descriptions listen in the linked document below.
