Activity: Students create a vision board by following the instructions in the video. They present their board to the class and explain why they included each part of it. The vision board can focus on just one goal, something they are working on right now, or several goals, either about things they can achieve now or even in their future lives as adults, such as career goals, marriage and family, etc.
Materials needed: a variety of kid-friendly magazines (often free at libraries); glue; poster board, one per student; decorating materials, including markers, crayons, etc.
Directions: Introduce the idea of vision boards. Explain the purpose of vision boards: they help us to clarify the goals that are important to us, strengthen our belief in what we want to achieve, and remind us to take steps toward achieving them. Vision board creators make an announcement to the universe - they use positive words and images to attract assistance and express their goals in the present tense as if the goal has already been fulfilled. When we make a vision board, we look at it every day and renew our commitment to our goals.
Briefly review the stories they read about Cesar Chavez, Simone Biles, Ada the violinist, and Jonathan Livingston, Seagull. Tell students your expectations for the activity: they can portray a single goal, or a set of goals that they want to work on now, or a set of goals they want to achieve in their adult lives. Explain that the purpose of this exercise is to strengthen each person’s hope to develop the inherent potential we all have for a positive and productive life now and in the future. Divide the class into pairs and tell them to talk about their goals.
After they have completed their vision boards students do a show and tell about their vision board. Some students will spend more time than others on this project (they won’t finish it in one 20-minute period) so make time for them to complete it. Other students can be given quiet activities to do while their classmates are finishing up. Provide ongoing teacher/student interaction as this activity requires a lot of concentration and thoughtfulness. Before the presentations begin, advise students to appreciate each other’s goals and vision board. Send them home with their vision boards or hang them somewhere in the classroom if there’s space for all of them. Take a picture of each vision board if they take it home, so that you can revisit the goals later on in the school year.
Wrap it up: Explain that you have a record of their vision boards in the photos that you took. In a month, the class will revisit this lesson and each person will assess any progress they’ve made toward achieving their goals through a writing exercise explaining what they’ve done in the past 3 months. Even if the vision board is about their lives as adults, there are steps they can make now as children - they can research a future career interest, or a country they’d like to visit, a place they might want to live, and so on.
Related resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kDS24W8VRE
Activity: Students create a vision board by following the instructions in the video. They present their board to the class and explain why they included each part of it. The vision board can focus on just one goal, something they are working on right now, or several goals, either about things they can achieve now or even in their future lives as adults, such as career goals, marriage and family, etc.
Materials needed: a variety of kid-friendly magazines (often free at libraries); glue; poster board, one per student; decorating materials, including markers, crayons, etc.
Directions: Introduce the idea of vision boards. Explain the purpose of vision boards: they help us to clarify the goals that are important to us, strengthen our belief in what we want to achieve, and remind us to take steps toward achieving them. Vision board creators make an announcement to the universe - they use positive words and images to attract assistance and express their goals in the present tense as if the goal has already been fulfilled. When we make a vision board, we look at it every day and renew our commitment to our goals.
Briefly review the stories they read about Cesar Chavez, Simone Biles, Ada the violinist, and Jonathan Livingston, Seagull. Tell students your expectations for the activity: they can portray a single goal, or a set of goals that they want to work on now, or a set of goals they want to achieve in their adult lives. Explain that the purpose of this exercise is to strengthen each person’s hope to develop the inherent potential we all have for a positive and productive life now and in the future. Divide the class into pairs and tell them to talk about their goals.
After they have completed their vision boards students do a show and tell about their vision board. Some students will spend more time than others on this project (they won’t finish it in one 20-minute period) so make time for them to complete it. Other students can be given quiet activities to do while their classmates are finishing up. Provide ongoing teacher/student interaction as this activity requires a lot of concentration and thoughtfulness. Before the presentations begin, advise students to appreciate each other’s goals and vision board. Send them home with their vision boards or hang them somewhere in the classroom if there’s space for all of them. Take a picture of each vision board if they take it home, so that you can revisit the goals later on in the school year.
Wrap it up: Explain that you have a record of their vision boards in the photos that you took. In a month, the class will revisit this lesson and each person will assess any progress they’ve made toward achieving their goals through a writing exercise explaining what they’ve done in the past 3 months. Even if the vision board is about their lives as adults, there are steps they can make now as children - they can research a future career interest, or a country they’d like to visit, a place they might want to live, and so on.
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