POPULAR CULTURE AND CIVIC IMAGINATION TOOLKIT
Let's Make It Fair
NUTS AND BOLTS
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Brief Description: In this activity participants work through a story based conflict to identify outcomes that could be more fair to everyone involved.
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Recommended Age Range: 5+
Participants: 2-6 participants (or groups of 2-6 participants)
Duration: 30 minutes (in addition to time spent watching media content together)
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Materials Needed and Space Requirements:
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In Person: A pen and colored pencils can be enough.
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Internet-Friendly Option: Synchronous video conferencing platform (Facetime, Zoom, Skype, etc).
Learning Opportunity: This activity taps popular culture to support perspective shifting and encourages participants to explore a situation from different vantage points.
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INSTRUCTIONS
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Watch
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Choose a familiar popular culture story (content world)
Optional: set up a time to watch the story/episode together
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Identify
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Identify a particular moment of conflict in the story. What happens? Who is involved and why? What are the core conflicts within an individual episode and within the series as a whole? How are these conflicts resolved? Or What allowed them to persist?
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Imagine
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Imagine that you could change the outcome of this conflict/situation to make it more fair to all involved. How would you change it? Who would be involved? Would you need to bring in other characters to help? Why?
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Share
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Collaborate to create a way to tell the new story through performance (puppets, acting)
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Print out the printer friendly version of this activity and the toolkit here.
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