Learning through games and seeing how things feel
Dear Families,
We had a wonderful lesson in my Holocaust and Human Behavior class yesterday. We started off with a discussion about inclusion and exclusion, to frame the games we were about to play to demonstrate these ideas. The students have obviously learned a lot in other classes in school and at TBS about bullying, exclusion, and inclusion, yet in our H and HB class we wanted to show them what it actually felt like to be in these different situations.
We played 3 games, all of which some people were excluded and left out of the circle. They didn't know the secret, or who was in charge, or who the leaders were who were running the games.
We then had two small group discussions about how it felt in each game to be a part of the circle, or to be the one who was excluded.
Ask your students these questions:
1. What did it feel like to be a part of the circle?
2. What did it feel like to be excluded during the games?
3. Is being a part of the circle the same thing as being "in" the circle? What are the similarities and differences.
4. What does it feel like to be included or excluded in real life, in school or with friends?
I was very impressed by this group's answers, and look forward to more classes!
Have a very Happy Thanksgiving, and see you all when we return to Gesher L'Noar!
Samantha
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