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Learning Objectives
• Students develop the confidence to try a new skill
• Students understand the importance of persistent effort
• Students learn the need to resist negative peer pressure
Lesson Duration
» 60 minutes
ACTIVITY 5 - Have a Go
Key Terms
• persistence
• cooperation
• collaboration
Preparation
» copy the Y chart for student use
» Obtain packets of drinking straws and strips of Blu-Tack
Teacher Notes
In this section, students are guided through an activity to help identify how they measure
‘success’ with the focus on having a go.
This activity is linked to The Cake Contest clip in the accompanying DVD, Clips for Kids.
Extensions of this activity might be to have a cake-baking contest, if the facilities are available.
Introduction - Using the DVD clip The Cake Contest
Preview the clip before showing it to the class. The key message is ‘Have a go’.
Y chart task
This activity helps to bring a light onto different definitions of ‘success’ and what it means to each individual. By
sharing and comparing their reactions and understandings, students will be able to expand and redefine the concept.
In the Tower task, they will apply this by ‘having a go’ at a team creation.
You will need copies of the Y chart – one per student.
The tower task
This activity creates a friendly, competitive atmosphere but is very much focused on teamwork. It provides a basis
for powerful reflective discussion on the things different people, despite different temperaments and personalities
from each other, can contribute to a team to enable it to achieve its goals.
You may also be able to draw attention to the fact that all the towers look different but are equally interesting/
stable/tall.
You will need a packet of drinking straws and a strip of Blu-Tack for each group.
Task - Using the DVD clip The Cake Contest as a discussion tool
Introductory focus questions
Have you ever taken part in a competition? What do you feel when you remember that occasion? (Reflection)
What is more important to you- what’s inside or how it looks? (Values analysis)
What was the last question asking you? (Critical thinking)
Students may want to reference various ‘reality television’ competitions in their
discussion. The Cake Contest episode provides a useful structure to provide an
alternative viewpoint to some of the outcomes held up as successful by these shows.
Remember
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. (John Wooden, American basketball coach)
I think I can, I think I can. . .(The Little Engine That Could)
Victory belongs to the most persevering. (Napoleon)
• success
• achievement
• peer pressure
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