The document outlines a lesson plan for exploring interdependence and systems thinking. Students will engage in mindfulness practices and describe inner experiences. They will create interdependence webs to illustrate how various objects, events, and people are connected and dependent on each other. This activity aims to help students recognize interconnectedness and how their actions impact others.
The document outlines a lesson plan for exploring interdependence and systems thinking. Students will engage in mindfulness practices and describe inner experiences. They will create interdependence webs to illustrate how various objects, events, and people are connected and dependent on each other. This activity aims to help students recognize interconnectedness and how their actions impact others.
The document outlines a lesson plan for exploring interdependence and systems thinking. Students will engage in mindfulness practices and describe inner experiences. They will create interdependence webs to illustrate how various objects, events, and people are connected and dependent on each other. This activity aims to help students recognize interconnectedness and how their actions impact others.
The document outlines a lesson plan for exploring interdependence and systems thinking. Students will engage in mindfulness practices and describe inner experiences. They will create interdependence webs to illustrate how various objects, events, and people are connected and dependent on each other. This activity aims to help students recognize interconnectedness and how their actions impact others.
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Exploring Students will: Preparation before session 1. SEEL Introducti
Interdepen • Engage in the practices Teacher’s role Journals on 5 mins dence and of heedfulness, Formation of a group of 3-4 members 2. Chart Systems mindfulness, and (based on the class size) and together Papers Insight Thinking monitoring awareness with the students assigning the roles 3. Markers Activity- • Describe the for the group. Students may play 15-20 experience of paying multiple roles as per requirement. mins attention to things on Following are the roles that the the inside (our body, members will be required to play: Concluding sensations, and mental Introduction- 1 member activity- experiences) Activity- All members 10-15 • Describe strategies for Reflection- 1 member mins catching impulses Group’s role before they cause us 1. Understanding the lesson plan Reflective problems and meeting with the work- 5 mins teacher/counsellor to discuss the theme. Total 2. Identifying relatable examples for duration- Primary Core the discussion. 40 mins Components Appreciating 3. Have a basic example of Interdependence, learn interdependence web to share. more about community 4. Informing their classmates/class and global engagement before the session about the materials that they are supposed to carry.
Conduction of the session
Teacher’s Role- To oversee the conduction of the session and prompt/guide the discussion if and when required. Group’s Role Introduction (1 member)-The session will start by the group having drawn a stick figure or written the words “Human Being” in the center of the board. One member of the group will then draw a circle around it. And -Write the prompt: “What does a human being need to survive and be happy?” - the group member will then invite multiple students from the class to answer the prompt and member write the answers on the board. Group members will draw lines connecting related things. The group will ask classmates to take a guess about the topic for the session. Once they receive a few answers. The following introduction will be given by a member. “Along with common humanity, another aspect of our shared human reality is interdependence. -What is interdependence? Interdependence refers to the fact that everything that exists – including all objects, events or people – exists in dependence on other things and in relationship to other things. -Why might it be important to explore interdependence? Exploring interdependence can be a powerful tool for recognizing how we depend on others and others depend on us; it can underscore the importance of reciprocity; it can serve as a foundation for gratitude and a feeling of connectedness to others. Activity (4 students)- After introducing the topic, group members will lead the class to the activity using the following guiding language: To explore the idea of interdependence, we’ll be working in small groups to create an interdependence drawing. The web of interdependence can include drawings and/or words that illustrate all the things that students will choose. A group members will be providing the instructions below. 1. ”Choose an accomplishment, event, or object that can contribute to a person’s well-being and happiness. This is your starting object (or starting event).Draw and label it in the middle of the piece of paper. Note: Group can have a list of starting objects/item/accomplishment as an example for the class. (in SEEL Handbook) 2. Add other things or events around it that your starting object depends on. Draw lines to connect them to your starting object. Keep adding more and more things until you can’t think of any more.This is your first circle of interdependence. 3. Now look at your first circle of things. What do they themselves depend on? Add additional items around those things, connected by lines. Note: Group can have a basic example ready to share. So as to help any small group struggling. 4. Look at all the things in your drawing. What people are needed for these things to exist or happen? Add any people or groups of people that are necessary. 5. Add up the total number of people on your drawing and write this number on the sheet. This is your estimate of the total number of people needed for your starting object or event to exist. 6. When you’re done, sign your drawing with the names of each group member. Concluding Activity- 1 group member will encourage each group to take turns and share their drawings. Group member will ask classmates to share responses to following questions- a. What was your starting event? b. Were there connections you noticed that you were never aware of before? (Item/event/people wise) c. What did you realize about yourself and others through this activity?
Reflection (1 member)- to start the
reflection one group member says the following words- “ The activity we just did can be used to investigate any event or object. Scientists have found that we have a tendency to think in very immediate terms. We can see what’s right in front of us, but it’s harder for us to see the connections between things, especially when they are distant in terms of time or space. We tend to think things just exist or happen by themselves. But in reality, everything happens through complex chains of causation.
The session will be concluded by one
group member by assigning the following reflective task to the students to be done by them later in their SEEL journals.
‘Since a recognition of interdependence
allows us to see things more holistically and realistically, it can contribute to our
understanding of happiness and
well-being by showing how our happiness and well-being depend on many causes and conditions. With an understanding of interdependence, we know our happiness and well-being depend on others or on our environment. We also understand how our actions impact the happiness and well-being of others’.
Reflect on the above quote and the
process of creating an interdependence web.
1. How might an understanding of
interdependence inform your personal decisions on a day to day basis?