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Activity
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Methodology
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Resources
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1. About myself portfolio
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a. Name/quality posters
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(Most of the products in this unit are combined into a profile for assessment at the end)
Create a small poster with your name in large letters, and using a brainstorm technique, and possibly a thesaurus find descriptive words for each letter of the name. Make it colourful, attractive, and true to your qualities.
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Example in Exploring p. 6; paper and art supplies
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b. Life map
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Create a colourful life map giving a visual illustration of your life to date with road signs, place names, and ups/downs etc.
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From Tribes p. 291; paper and art supplies
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c. Multiple intelligences
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Complete a checklist involving seven types of multiple intelligences. Determine which multiple intelligence applies most. Answer several questions on what this means for learning.
Do the Donovan Bailey profile questions
Complete a worksheet that asks students to identify a person they know whom they would choose to do something for them.
Complete a worksheet with a list of occupations, and say which multiple intelligences would be most useful and why.
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Checklist created from Exploring p. 15-18, 29
Photocopy from Exploring p. 19
Identifying a Person's Intelligence from Exploring (Teacher's Edition), p. 136
Multiple Intelligences for Work worksheet
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d. Emotional intelligence
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Complete an emotional intelligence quotient quiz and answer several questions on the result.
As a class complete an organizer on the dimesions of emotional intelligence.
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EQ Quiz worksheet
Emotional Intelligence Profile Organizer
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e. Personality type
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Read an information sheet on True Colours. List colours in order of of most to least like you. Create an image using different shades of the colour that is most like you, showing elements of your personanlity that you think are important.
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Information sheet from Exploring p. 21-23
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f. Learning styles
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Complete a worksheet on learning styles (auditory, visual, kinesthetic) including several questions about how the teacher can help you learn better, and how student can help themselves learn better.
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Worksheet from Exploring (Teacher's Edition), p. 137-138
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g. Brainedness
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Complete a worksheet on right or left brainedness, and determine which side of brain controls actions.
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Worksheet from Exploring (Teacher's Edition), p. 139-140
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h. Setting short-term goals
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Using a blank organizer with categories (friends, family/culture, health/fitness, attitudes, helping others, school, and a blank category) set simple short-term goals and list one or two action steps for each. Discuss Amin's short-term goals on the information sheet provided (emphasize: reachable and personally meaningful).
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Information sheet from Exploring (Teacher's Edition), p. 142
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i. Visualize your future
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Given a blank organizer with categories (morning, noon, afternoon and evening) create what your ideal day will look like when you are 20 years old. Include what you would like to be doing then. Worksheet finishes by asking students to articulate two long-term goals with action steps (education, career, personal and/or social).
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How I want to be in 2008 worksheet
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j. Assemble portfolio
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Assemble all elements of the portfolio, and decorate the cover with text and images that show the element of yourself that you consider most important. Complete a fill in the blank personal profile summary.
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Personal Profile fill-in-the-blank summary from Exploring (Teacher's Edition), p. 175
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