Summary: Children read an imaginary story and engage in a discussion on identity and refugee experience. They learn about a refugee experience of a girl named Mia and engage in creative work making welcome posters or “Welcome to our school” pebbles to help refugee children joining their school feel welcome and accepted.
Main age group(s) for activity or activities: 8-10
Time needed: 2×45 min
Objectives
- To enable students to begin to learn about the importance of social identity.
- To help students understand what a refugee or displaced person means.
- To help students realise that being different is sometimes very hard to manage.
- To consider how students can make refugees / displaced persons, or people who are just different, feel welcome and accepted.
Materials needed: A variety of ID cards that students are familiar with (e.g teacher’s ID, passport, club ID badge etc.), map to show Mia’s journey from Sarajevo to Novi Sad, pens, paper, paints etc., OR pebbles with acrylic pens and acrylic paints.