Activity 4 Respecting Cultural Heritage

• The Purpose of This Activity

This is a fun activity that can be used to break up a long workshop! The Cultural Artifacts

Activity is designed to allow participants to share with the group and item that they highly value.Personal items of value may remind the owner or connect them to a particular person, place,time, or group. Participants can use these connections to display part of their identities to thegroup, and to establish common values within the group.

Goals: Help students to self-disclose and identify common areas of interest to begin understanding diversity and why it is important to value.

Estimated Time

45-60 minutes

• Materials
• Whatever the students choose to bring in.
• Paper and writing utensils
• Index cards with numbers on them starting at 1 and ending with the number of participants

Introduction

As you can see I have placed everyone‟s items in the front of the room and it is very important that you not tell anyone which item is yours. We will be guessing which items belong to which group members, and talking about our own personal items and their significance.

• How to Play

1. Prior to the day you are meeting students should be instructed to bring in one item or cultural artifact that is of particular importance to them.
2. The day of the activity students should anonymously place the items into a large bag.
3. The facilitator will place the items in no particular order on a desk in the front of the room along with a random numbered index card.
4. Students should take a piece of paper and writing utensil and write down the numbers of the items and the names of the people they think the items belong to.
5. Students should not touch the items.
6. Once everyone has recorded their answers invite each student up to claim their object and share with the group why they value that particular item.
7. Students should mark each correct guess and the facilitator should ask the group how many correct guesses they had once everyone has picked up their item.