general notes – how to zoom in/out
general notes – fiction greater empathy
Curiosity Lab 1:
Who Am I?
It may be surprising that our first stop in our journey in learning about race is ourselves! But understanding race and growing towards antiracism are exercises in self-awareness.
We want kids to like themselves and build their identities based on their interests & abilities, character traits, family history & culture. In many cultures, identity – including racial identity – can often be built upon comparisons. Our hope is to anchor our understanding of ourselves with the idea that each human already has infinite value, rather than in unhelpful and false concepts of superiority & inferiority.
Workshop Objectives:
- Start building cultural awareness through exploration of individual and family identity
- Learn and practice the use of mirrors, windows, and doors language to relate to others’ experiences
Curiosity Lab 1 Printables
Please note: These printables are an accompaniment to the materials on the website. They do not replace the website. If you are distributing these materials as kits to families, we recommend including the following instruction sheet.
Curiosity Lab 1 Supplies
GAME: BALL NAME GAME
To prep this activity, write get-to-know-you prompts all over the beach ball.
- Beach ball, inflated
- Permanent marker
GAME: BALLOON FUN
The number of balloons you need will depend on how you choose to structure the activity.
- Balloons
- Air pump (optional)
MAKE: FAMILY SCULPTURE
If families do this activity at home, they can use any found objects around their house to represent their family. If families are doing this activity in a different space, then use the following materials to create family sculptures.
- Cardboard base to hold the sculpture (cut up a shipping box)
- Model Magic or play clay in various colors
- Assorted craft materials such as pipe cleaners, pom poms, craft sticks, feathers, and/or google eyes
- Recyclables such as cardboard tubes
Resources for kids
The titles seen here include books that are used to complete the activities as well as suggestions for further reading.
Everyone’s “mirrors, windows, and doors” moments within books will be different – but here are some of our favorite books that offer great opportunities for discussion. Remember to focus on finding relatable moments within the story – honing in on both “mirrors” (often we can find common ground in having experienced shared feelings) and “windows” (things that we haven’t experienced ourselves and offer us glimpses into other people and worlds).
Resources for parents + caregivers
Learn more about the development of racial identity.
- Quick overview of racial identity stages from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Summary of ethnic identity from ACT for Youth
- More extensive summary of stages of racial identity development from Wenatchee Valley College
- Learn more about building a healthy white racial identity from Louise Derman-Sparks, author of several books including What If All the Kids are White? and Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs
These web-based resources focus on the role of the parent/caregiver in guiding children in race conversations. These resources may be useful throughout your journey and are not limited to only the topic of racial identity formation.
- Webinar: Teaching and Learning about Race: Fantastic Practice in Late Elementary from embracerace.org
- Check out these helpful “Talking about Race” resources from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
- This article from Learning for Justice was written for teachers but is applicable and instructive for parents as well. It focuses on how to address misconceptions about race in non-shaming ways.
- 100 race-conscious things to say to your child to advance racial justice from raceconscious.org
- This resource guide from the Center for Racial Justice in Education is chock-full of links to articles and expert interviews.
Maybe you’d like to take some time to acquire more background knowledge. In addition to these books, we also recommend these resources.
- Learning for Justice produced these excellent videos as part of their Teaching Hard History curriculum.
- Watch, listen to, or read a “Book Bite” of Heather McGee’s The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together from the Next Big Idea Club – or even better, read the entire book.
- A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 chapters from the New York Times (many libraries offer access to the New York Times – check yours!)
Curiosity Lab 2:
Can you make a match?
In this workshop, you’ll get to concoct a mixture of paint that matches your own skin tone!
Parents, caregivers, and leaders – be sure to watch this 2-minute video where Cozbi explains what we’re trying to accomplish. If you choose to engage in Workshop 2, please consider also using the “Sun in Our Skin” video or other resources from Workshop 3 to ensure we tell the truth about the biological and historical reasons behind the complex layers of meaning around skin color. Learn more here.
Workshop Objectives:
- Learn how to mix paint to match skin tone
- Opportunity to think about shades of skin in a neutral or positive way
- Increase comfort level in noticing and talking about skin tones
- Appreciate and celebrate one’s own unique shade of skin
- Appreciate different tones within the family
Curiosity Lab 2 Printables
Please note: These printables are an accompaniment to the materials on the website. They do not replace the website. If you are distributing these materials as kits to families, we recommend including the following instruction sheet.
Curiosity Lab 2 Supplies
EXPERIMENT: MAKE A PAINT THAT MATCHES YOUR SKIN TONE
- Washable tempera paint in the following colors: red, yellow, blue, white, black
- Paintbrushes (a small size like this for mixing color and larger sizes for painting with)
- Small plastic plate or washable dish to experiment and mix paint on
- Water to rinse the paintbrushes
- Paper towels
- Something to protect your surfaces (tablecloths, paper towels, newspapers, or scratch paper)
- Paper (this works well)
- Small condiment cup to mix a larger batch of paint – if you’ll be splitting up this workshop into a couple of parts, then you’ll also want to have lids available to save the paint after mixing.
- Washi tape
ALTERNATE ACTIVITY: NAME YOUR SHADE USING PAINT CHIPS
- Obtain paint chip samples in various skin tones from your local hardware store.
- Cross out the names given to the shades so that participants can come up with their own names.
Curiosity Lab 3:
Why are there different shades of skin? What does it mean?
You already know that people can look very different from each other! Have you ever wondered why? Today, you’ll learn a little bit about why that is.
- Understand there is no biological basis for race
- Humans made up race and racism
- Understand that some humans benefited from the ideas of race and racism and some humans were harmed
Curiosity Lab 3 Printables
Please note: These printables are an accompaniment to the materials on the website. They do not replace the website. If you are distributing these materials as kits to families, we recommend including the following instruction sheet.
Curiosity Lab 3 Supplies
GAME: ROLL IT!
- Masking tape to create starting and ending lines, if desired
- One potato or sweet potato per participant
GAME: FLIP IT!
- Pencils
- Timer or stopwatch
MAKE: FAMILY TRUTHS MOBILE
There are many ways to make a mobile! Use yarn-wrapped sticks, repurposed clothes hangers, or recycled materials. Make your mobile with whatever you have on hand! This is just one way to do it.
- Inner ring of an embroidery hoop (at least 8″ in diameter)
- String or yarn
- Wood circles
- Beads
- Beading needle (optional)
- Ceiling hook
- Scissors
- Tape
- Hole punch
- Paper
- Crayons, markers, or colored pencils
ACTIVITY: EVERYONE HAS EQUAL + INFINITE WORTH
- Small colored objects to use as markers, such as pompons, marbles, or candies
- Paper or index cards
- Clear recycled jars or containers to hold the small objects
- Pencils, pens, or markers
Resources for kids
The titles seen here include books that are used to complete the activities as well as suggestions for further reading.
Resources for parents + caregivers
- TED Talk, more technical video or article about The Evolution of Skin Color from Dr. Nina Jablonski – or read her excellent book Skin: A Natural History.
- Article: “Race does not equal DNA: If race is a social construct, what’s up with DNA ancestry testing?” by Joseph L. Graves in the Teaching Tolerance Summer 2015 issue
- Article: “I’m Jewish and Don’t Identify as White. Why Must I Check That Box?” from The Ethicist column of the New York Times
- Modern Human Diversity – Skin Color from the Smithsonian’s What Does It Mean to Be Human? series
- Our primary aim is to affirm all shades of skin – but we know that self-acceptance is a journey for many different reasons, not just racial identity. For body-positive affirmation, we recommend More Than a Body: Your Body is an Instrument, Not an Ornament by Lexie Kite and Lindsay Kite
Curiosity Lab 4:
What do you mean, my family has a culture?
In this workshop, we’ll explore our own family cultures.
- Question our penchant to define our own experiences as “normal” and everything else as “other”
- Understand that all members of a common group are not the same; membership in a group is only one aspect of a person’s life experience
- Understand that there are some parts of culture that are visible (surface culture), some that are partially visible (shallow culture), and some that are often invisible (deep culture)
- Understand that each family has their own unique surface, shallow, and deep cultures, as well as individual self-identify
Curiosity Lab 4 Printables
Please note: These printables are an accompaniment to the materials on the website. They do not replace the website. If you are distributing these materials as kits to families, we recommend including the following instruction sheet.
- Curiosity Lab 4 pdf file
- Curiosity Lab 4 booklet pdf (print double-sided)
- Family Culture Tree printable poster (20″x30″)
- Leaf clip art to print & cut out
- Superhero game board (print on 8.5 x 11 and tape together)
- Superhero game movers
- World map
Curiosity Lab 4 Supplies
MAKE: FAMILY CULTURE TREE
- Plain posterboard (draw your own tree outline) OR printed family culture tree poster
- Die-cut leaves or printed leaves
- Markers
- Scissors
ACTIVITY: MAP IT!
- Printed world map
- Star stickers
Resources for kids
The titles seen here include books that are used to complete the activities as well as suggestions for further reading.
You can use almost any story to explore culture. This slideshow gives you a few ideas to get you started. Remember, you can use the “windows, mirrors, and doors” language to discuss similarities and differences between various cultures.
Facilitators, parents + caregivers: Check out the Finding Your Roots Curriculum from Penn State University developed by a team led by Dr. Nina Jablonski (the scientist who discovered the link between skin color and UV radiation exposure) and Henry Louis Gates. These free resources, designed for middle school students but adaptable for families, “invite[s] students to consider who they are genetically, genealogically/socioculturally, and intentionally.”
Resources for parents + caregivers
- Watch Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Danger of a Single Story” TED Talk
- Cultural competence checklist
- This article uses illustrations from the animal world to deconstruct and define what culture really is
- This article expands on the role of cultural awareness within white racial identity formation. From the Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere
Curiosity Lab 5:
Can you find the invisible stories your brain is making up?
In this workshop, we’ll explore how our brains are always busy. We will start to listen to and question the thoughts that randomly pop into our minds.
- Understand that we don’t know a person’s story by looking at them
- Become aware of the patterns and stories that our brains automatically generate
- Introduce the language of assumptions and stereotypes
- Offer a tangible reminder to look at stories & people from multiple perspectives – the view changes as we move
Curiosity Lab 5 Printables
Please note: These printables are an accompaniment to the materials on the website. They do not replace the website. If you are distributing these materials as kits to families, we recommend including the following instruction sheet.
Curiosity Lab 5 Supplies
GAME: NOODLE DOODLE
- Plain paper
- Markers
MAKE: SLIME
Click to read this note about presenting this activity.
- Water
- Food coloring
- Liquid starch, such as Sta-Flo
- Thermochromic pigment powder There are a lot of different kinds of thermochromic pigment (some are colored when cold and turn clear when warmed; be sure to check the temperature where the color change occurs and pick a temperature that is not too high; otherwise it can be harder to see the color-changing effect). Learn more about how to choose thermochromic pigment and food coloring, and the slime-making process, here.)
- Washable school glue (white or clear)
- Craft stick
- Cup or bowl for mixing
- Plate or craft tray for kneading
- Small condiment cup for storing
This recipe for slime changes color based on its temperature. Make sure you’ve chosen a thermochromic pigment whose temperature change points are easily accessible, and also have available ways to warm or cool the slime, such as:
- ice pack or cold drink
- warm cup of coffee
GAME: BALANCE THE BALL
- Spoons
- Ping-pong balls
MAKE: A reMINDer
There are many ways to make a mobile! Use yarn-wrapped sticks, repurposed clothes hangers, or recycled materials. Make your mobile with whatever you have on hand!
- Model Magic
- Yarn
Resources for kids
The titles seen here include books that are used to complete the activities as well as suggestions for further reading.
Please read this consideration as you decide how to present Milo Imagines the World.
- Use Clever Hans by Kerri Kokias & Mike Lowery as an access point to discuss the ways that humans can pass on and teach bias – if a horse can learn cues such as these, how much more so can we humans? Credit for this idea goes to Betsy Bird.
- Use Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld to talk about how our experiences shape the ways we see the world
Resources for parents + caregivers
- Watch Vernā Myers’ TED talk on how to overcome our biases
- Article from Vox: “‘Reality’ is constructed by your brain. Here’s what that means, and why it matters’
- Take an implicit bias test
- View a study guide created by Penguin Random House that offers ideas and talking points on works by author/illustrator team Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
Curiosity Lab 6:
How can I begin my antiracist journey?
In this workshop, we’ll look at under-the-surface racism and consider where it comes from. We’ll also practice figuring out whether some situations have racist or antiracist ideas behind them.
- Introduce the implicitly biased idea that “white is normal” and everything else is “other” – build awareness of our white-centered world
- Introduce and define the language of racist ideas and antiracist ideas
Curiosity Lab 6 Printables
Please note: These printables are an accompaniment to the materials on the website. They do not replace the website. If you are distributing these materials as kits to families, we recommend including the following instruction sheet.
Curiosity Lab 6 Supplies
EXPERIMENT: SINK OR FLOAT?
- One balloon per child: filled with water, tied, and frozen for at least 48 hours (to add to the fun, insert a small toy animal through the neck of the balloon before filling with water)
- Large saucepan, mixing bowl, or stockpot filled ¾ with cold water (deep enough for entire frozen balloon to fit and float)
- Cork
- Baking sheet or tray to set the mixing bowl
- Various kinds of salt (table salt, rock salt, kosher salt)
- Liquid watercolor, poured into a cup of water
- Pipette
- Empty pasta bowl or large cereal bowl that ice sphere will fit inside of
GAME: BALL DROP
- Spoons
- Ping-pong balls
MAKE: IDENTITY CUBE
- Colored pencils, markers, or crayons
- Scissors
- Glue or tape
MAKE: IDENTITY EXPANDER
- Colored pencils, markers, or crayons
- Scissors
- Glue or tape
Resources for kids
The titles seen here include books that are used to complete the activities as well as suggestions for further reading.
Resources for parents + caregivers
- Tool: Recognizing Microaggressions and the messages they send from UCSC
- Summary of microaggressions
- Article: Dear anti-racist allies: Here’s how to respond to microaggressions by Kristen Rogers, CNN
- Article: Color Lines by Olivia Gude from Learning for Justice (previously Rethinking Schools)
Curiosity Lab 7:
Why are we still talking about race & racism?
In this workshop, we introduce the systemic racism that began with the enslavement of Black Africans. It’s challenging to teach kids subject matter that involves human suffering. We seek to provide a sensitive balance between sharing the truth, which is often horrific, while at the same time showing the people experiencing oppression as whole people who are not defined only by their suffering. We also wanted to avoid harm via curricular violence. We’ve done our best to thoughtfully consider our content in this important light, but every child responds in their own way to difficult information. Please preview and alter materials as needed for your family or group.
- Begin to understand how implicit bias, generational wealth gaps, racist laws and the history of chattel slavery led to racial inequities in the United States
- Learn that enslavement and suffering are not the only narratives of the Black experience, just as there is no single “Black experience”
- Begin to discover that Black people used joy and resistance to reclaim their humanity
Curiosity Lab 7 Printables
Please note: These printables are an accompaniment to the materials on the website. They do not replace the website. If you are distributing these materials as kits to families, we recommend including the following instruction sheet.
Curiosity Lab 7 Supplies
GAME: MONOPOLY
While playing Monopoly before or during the workshop is not required, it will be helpful to draw on the experience of playing the game at least for a little while (30-45 minutes).
GAME: GET OUT
- Scissors
- Empty rectangular tissue boxes
- Belt
- Ping-pong balls
EXPERIMENT: INVISIBLE FORCES
You may not need all of these supplies depending on which activities you choose to do.
- Open-top shallow box with one side cut out
- Long craft stick
- Donut magnets
- Bar magnets
- Steel-ringed plastic chips
- Mazes (make your own or print these)
- Modeling clay
- Bamboo skewers
- Yarn
MAKE SOMETHING
Choose supplies to make a project. The supplies listed here can be used to make a stamped bag.
- You may wish to show photos of artwork for inspiration
- Acrylic fabric paint or fabric paint pens
- Craft foam
- Scissors
- Paintbrush
- Tote bag or drawstring backpack
Resources for kids
The titles seen here include books that are used to complete the activities as well as suggestions for further reading.
Resources for parents + caregivers
- Crash Course YouTube series: Black American History hosted by Clint Smith, author of the not-to-be-missed How the Word Is Passed
- Article from PBS’ Race: The Power of Illusion
- Article on understanding white privilege
Curiosity Lab 2:
Can you make a match?
short rationale (link to Cozbi video explaining it)
Workshop Objectives:
- Learn how to mix paint to match skin tone
- Opportunity to think about shades of skin in a neutral or positive way
- Increase comfort level in noticing and talking about skin tones
- Appreciate and celebrate one’s own unique shade of skin
- Appreciate different tones within the family
Supply List for Workshop 2 FIX THIS ADD PRINTABLE LIST
- Supplies, books, and printables (click here for a pdf of all the printables in this workshop; click here for a pdf of the printables in this workshop in a double-sided printable booklet form)
- Washable tempera paint in the following colors: red, yellow, blue, white, black
- Paintbrushes (a small size like this for mixing color and larger sizes for
- Small plastic plate or washable dish to experiment and mix paint on
- Water to rinse the paintbrushes
- Paper towels
- Something to protect your surfaces (tablecloths, paper towels, newspapers, or scratch paper)
- Paper (this works well)
- Small (2 oz?) condiment cup to mix a larger batch of paint – if you’ll be splitting up this workshop into a couple of parts, then you’ll also want to have lids available to save the paint after mixing.
- Washi tape
Suggested post-workshop resources for kids
Suggested resources for parents + caregivers FIX FORMAT THESE
The following articles may be of use
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PRINTABLES
SUPPLIES
BALL NAME GAME
To prep this activity, write get-to-know-you prompts all over the beach ball.
- Beach ball, inflated
- Permanent marker
BALLOON FUN
The number of balloons you need will depend on how you choose to structure the activity.
FAMILY SCULPTURE
If families do this activity at home, they can use any found objects around their house to represent their family. If families are doing this activity in a different space, then use the following materials to create family sculptures.
- Cardboard base to hold the sculpture (cut up a shipping box)
- Model Magic or play clay in various colors
- Assorted craft materials such as pipe cleaners, pom poms, craft sticks, feathers, and/or google eyes
- Recyclables such as cardboard tubes
Curiosity Lab 3:
Why are there different shades of skin? What does it mean?
- Understand there is no biological basis for race
- Humans made up race and racism
- Understand that some humans benefited from the ideas of race and racism and some humans were harmed
Supply List for Workshop 3
Possible wording for discussions – FIX THIS NOT FINAL!!!
One thing that helps me to remember as we talk about hard things is that we all grew up in this society, this all happened already before we were born. We aren’t to blame for it, but we are all responsible to help fix it.
- “It can feel uncomfortable to talk about race because hearing about all this might make us feel bad in some way. We might want to avoid feeling these uncomfortable or upsetting feelings. But avoiding this stuff doesn’t help anyone. We all grew up in this society where there has been racism for hundreds of years. We aren’t to blame for it, but we are all responsible to help fix it. And part of fixing it means talking about it, even if it feels hard.” Language around having “brave conversations” or “being brave about race” can also be helpful.
- Some families may want to break the video into 2 parts, or to watch the video with one child at a time.
Curious to learn more about what the recipes in our bodies actually look like? Take a look at this super simple summary, or check out these
Suggested post-workshop resources for kids
Suggested resources for parents + caregivers
Curiosity Lab 3:
Why are there different shades of skin? What does it mean?
- Understand there is no biological basis for race
- Humans made up race and racism
- Understand that some humans benefited from the ideas of race and racism and some humans were harmed
Coming Soon:
Curiosity Lab 3
Supplies + Resources
- Supply list
- Printables
- Post-workshop resources for kids
- resources for parents + caregivers
Curiosity Lab 3:
What do you mean, my family has a culture?
- Question our penchant to define our own experiences as normal and everything else as other
- Understand that: all members of a common group are not the same; membership in a group is only one aspect of a person’s life experience
- Understand that there are some parts of culture that are visible (surface culture), some that are partially visible (shallow culture), and some that are often invisible (deep culture)
- Understand that each family has their own unique surface, shallow, and deep cultures, as well as individual self-identify
Supply List for Workshop 4
Printables (superhero printable activity, friend venn diagram?, ,
Posterboard with drawn tree silhouette, or printed tree poster
World map
Colored cardstock cut into leaf shapes, or printed leaves (color version, autumn version, black/white version, natural version)
Markers that will write on the leaves
Scissors
Optional: Paint (tempera or acrylic), paintbrushes, water
Suggested post-workshop resources for kids
Suggested resources for parents + caregivers
Curiosity Lab 5:
Can you find the invisible stories your brain is making up?
In this workshop, we’ll explore how our brains are always busy and start to listen more closely to the thoughts that randomly pop in our minds.
- Understand that we don’t know a person’s story by looking at them
- Become aware of the patterns and stories that our brains automatically generate
- Introduce the language of assumptions and stereotypes
- Offer a tangible reminder to look at stories & people from multiple perspectives – the view changes as we move
Coming Soon:
Curiosity Lab 3
Supplies + Resources
- Supply list
- Printables
- Post-workshop resources for kids
- resources for parents + caregivers
Supply List for Workshop 5
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There are a lot of different kinds of thermochromic pigment – different base colors (some are colored when cold and turn clear when warmed; be sure to check the temperature where the color change occurs and pick a temperature that is not too high; otherwise it can be harder to see the color-changing effect). Learn more about how to choose thermochromic pigment and food coloring, and the slime-making process, here.
t’s easy to see the “above-the-water” iceberg of racist ideas, like the…. another word for that is “overt racism.” Overt means open, visible.
But it’s hard to see the “under-the-water” parts of the iceberg of racism. And it might be hard to label things as overtly racist.
With some of these real-life examples, it might be easier to say that they are based on racist ideas.
you are racist is not helpful.
did you know that what you’re saying is based on a racist idea?
Water
Container for the slime
Tablespoon-size measuring spoon
Craft stick or coffee stirrer
Washable school glue (clear or white is fine; glitter glue is fun too)
Thermochromic pigment (more on this here)
Food coloring
Liquid starch
Cup & plate
ping pong balls
Remembering necklace xxx
- Model Magic in various colors
- String
- If desired, gems
Activity: Map it!
- stickers
Suggested post-workshop resources for kids
Suggested resources for parents + caregivers
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/
***”Like all misperceptions, it teaches us that our experience of reality is not perfect.”
“It’s really important to understand we’re not seeing reality,” says neuroscientist Patrick Cavanagh, a research professor at Dartmouth College and a senior fellow at Glendon College in Canada. “We’re seeing a story that’s being created for us.”
The lesson: The stories our brains tell us about reality are extremely compelling, even when they are wrong.
This activity was modified and adapted from the “Levels of Culture” diagram found in Zaretta L. Hammond’s book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
I am an experimental psychologist who studies visual illusions as well as makes illusion artworks.
“But we have no way of knowing how our experiences guide our perception. “Your brain makes a lot of unconscious inferences, and it doesn’t tell you that it’s an inference,” he explains. “You see whatever you see. Your brain doesn’t tell you, ‘I took into account how much daylight I’ve seen in my life.’””
Explore more: Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and David Lichtenfield
In a way, you can think of bias as a social illusion. Studies find that many people perceive black men to be bigger (and, therefore, potentially more threatening) than they actually are, or generally associate darker skin tones and certain facial features with criminality. Cops can confuse people removing wallets from their pockets with people reaching for guns, often with tragic consequences. This isn’t to say that all instances of prejudice are mindless — many are enacted with clear malignant intention, but they can also be built from years of experience in an unjust society or as the result of systemic racism.
Instead, the illusions and the science behind them raise a question: How do we go about our lives knowing our experiences might be a bit wrong?
Curiosity Lab 6:
How can I begin my anti-racist journey?
rationale
- Introduce the implicitly biased idea that “white is normal” and everything else is “other” – introduction to naming our white-centered world
- Introduce and define the language of racist ideas and anti-racist ideas
Coming Soon:
Curiosity Lab 6
Supplies + Resources
- Supply list
- Printables
- Post-workshop resources for kids
- resources for parents + caregivers
INTRO getting to know your own skin Here's what you'll find in this workshop; click to jump to that section: Agreements Introduction: Video: Activity: Feelings check-in Book ***** https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/spring-2001/color-lines Supplies, materials, printouts and resources Click to see the rationale behind this workshop. Supplies needed for the tip of the iceberg activity
- Optional: miniature plastic animals that can fit through the neck of an empty balloon
- One balloon per child, filled with water, tied, and frozen for at least 48 hours
- Large saucepan, mixing bowl, or stockpot filled ¾ with cold water (deep enough for entire frozen balloon to fit and float)
- Cork
- Optional: Flashlight
- Baking sheet or tray to set the mixing bowl
- Various kinds of salt
- Liquid watercolor paint, poured into a cup of water
- Pipette (like these)
- Empty pasta bowl or large cereal bowl that ice sphere will fit inside of
- game ping pong balls
- game cups
Suggested post-workshop resources for kids
Suggested resources for parents + caregivers
