LoveLife_Erasmus+

“Love Life.”
Improving students’ self-esteem, social skills and emotional
intelligence.
Erasmus + project
Module 1
Topics:
Introduction to the project.
Activities:
• Designing the project logo.
• Making short films - partner school presentations.
• Survey assessing students’ self-esteem and body image.
Module 2
Focus on feelings and emotions
Module motto: "I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you
made them feel." Maya Angelou
Topics:
• Names of feelings and emotions in mother tongue and English
• Developing emotional intelligence
• Body language
Activities:
• Discussing the results of the survey, conclusions.
• Creating a dictionary - feelings and emotions (English plus all languages of
partner countries)
• Creating a pictionary of body language - the same gesture may have a
different meaning, depending on the country
• Designing self-collages. Using pictures, words, or symbols clipped from
magazines that represent things they enjoy doing or own, places they've
been, people they admire, or careers they desire, students create a
collage. Individually, in pairs or in groups.
• Discussing the film: https://youtu.be/ikGVWEvUzNM
• Photo competition: students are divided into small groups, each group is assigned a
feeling, they have to take a photo/a series of photos depicting the feeling
• Expressing feelings: ‘Cinderella’ on stage. The fairy tale is divided into parts, as if it
was a TV series, each country gets only a part of the story, they have to prepare their
episode. During the meeting the whole fairy tale is presented, countries taking turns.
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Module 3
Focus on self-esteem
Module motto: "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your
permission." Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics:
• Improving self-esteem and building confidence
• Promoting mental health
• Health-enhancing behaviours and reducing health risks
• Focus on Personal Strengths
• Stress
• Sport
• Sleep
• Healthy food
• Concentrate on your positives
• Learn to be assertive
Activities:
• Workshops for teachers and parents.
• Cooking - healthy recipes
• Drawing self portraits: children divide the shape for the face down the
center lengthwise. Half the face is a depiction of how the student sees
himself/herself, and the other how he thinks others see him.
• Role plays promoting assertiveness
• Hand tracing: in the center of the traced hand kids write ‘I am’ and then in
the fingers, they write what they are good at, what they like about
themselves.
• Rainbow compliments: a student writes his/her name in a cut out cloud
shape, then he/she cuts the coloured paper into strips and writes good
things about himself/herself on them, then the strips are pasted to the
cloud.
• 30 Day Self Esteem Challenge:
https://pl.pinterest.com/pin/60306082493289848/
• Positive feedback: a student sits on a chair in front of a white board while the others
write positive phrases and words about him/her. The sitting child can’t peek at what is
being written. A picture is taken afterwards. Example: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-
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Module 4
Focus on body image
Module motto:
‘I am beautiful no matter what they say.
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Words can't bring me down.
I am beautiful in every single way.’
Christina Aguilera, ‘Beautiful’
Topics:
• Creating a positive body image
• Social pressure
• Media influence
• Advertisements
• Ways to improve body image
Activities:
• Workshops for teachers and parents.
• Discussing the film (it’s a commercial but the last part with logo can be
easily skipped):
https://youtu.be/hibyAJOSW8U
• Creating a “Me” or “We” film commercial
The commercial depicts the student's special qualities. Or a small groups of
students make the commercials together, featuring them as a dream team.
• Shields. Students in groups design, create and decorate cardboard shields
with positive solutions to problems such as stress, low self-esteem,
negative body image, etc.
Module 5
Focus on social skills
Module motto: ‘Any day spent with you is my favourite day. So today is
my new favorite day.’ A.A. Milne, ‘Winnie the Pooh’
Topics:
• Social skills
• Connect with people who love you
• Real people versus social media
• Healthy alternatives to spending time online
• Social skills in real life and internet
Activities:
• Workshops for teachers and parents.
• Writing a song promoting friendship - it will be our project anthem: we can
choose a simple song everyone knows (karaoke version) and each country
writes one stanza or the stanzas are written by multinational groups
during a meeting. Then we perform it together. Actually, Love Life is an
option to consider: https://youtu.be/EPHmUD0QfmM
• Fairy tale in a distorting mirror - teenagers might consider dealing with
fairy tales a bit childish but we could ask them to invent a modern version
of a very popular story. We could concentrate on beauty related scenes
only. Stories to consider: Beauty and the Beast, Princess and the Frog,
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Snow White (the scene with the mirror). Students prepare and perform
their version during one of the meetings.
• Discussing the film: https://youtu.be/7dlW2UHgu-Y
Module 6
Focus on happiness
Module motto: "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be
happy." Anne Frank
Topics:
Happiness
Positive thinking
Activities:
• Poster competition and campaign - promoting positive attitude
• Poems about happiness, for example Christina Rossetti’s ‘A Birthday’:
https://interestingliterature.com/2016/11/29/a-short-analysis-ofchristina-rossettis-a-birthday/
Possibilities: illustrating the poem, writing a
similar poem - it can be ambitious or very simple, repeating the pattern:
My heart is like____
• Inventing happy endings to popular books and films which have tragic
ones (eg. “Titanic”). Acting out the final scene in the altered version.
• Celebrating happiness - a show - maybe for younger kids? - with funny
sketches, juggling, clowns, etc prepared by students.
• Recipe for happiness - creative writing activities, based on a structure of a
typical culinary recipe.
Module 7
• Survey after completing project activities, comparing them with the ones
at the beginning of partnership.
• Project evaluation.
Thanks for reading. :)
Your comments and suggestions are more than welcome.
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