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|SESSION: INDUCTION ACTIVITY – FIRST IMPRESSIONS |
|Expected Progress: |Description: To help young people to understand that first impressions (for example, the first time they meet someone new, walk into an interview |
|Young people understand that first impressions matter but may not always|room or meet the boss during work experience) really count. But are our first impressions always right and do we sometimes make value judgements too|
|be accurate. |soon? |
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|Resources required: |LLN Opportunities: |STEM Opportunities: |
|First Impressions Images worksheet, or choose your own images from | | |
|newspaper and magazines. Make sure you include different ages, genders |N/A |Communicating complex topics with limited resources |
|and ethnicities. | |Teamwork |
| | |Design |
| | |Investigation, Curiosity |
|DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY |RESOURCES |LEARNING OUTCOME |EVIDENCE OPPORTUNITY |
|Icebreaker |Flip chart and pens | | |
| |Tape | | |
|A group of Martians has just landed at your Centre. They do not understand any Earth languages, only graphic symbols. They | | | |
|want to know all about Earth. As the facilitator, you can represent the aliens. | | | |
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|1. YP work in teams to prepare a short speech composed of graphic symbols to welcome them and explain a bit about Earth | | | |
|living. They choose the topics: how we cook, leisure activities, what we wear, etc. Tape the speeches on the walls. Have | | | |
|participants review each other’s speeches | | | |
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|2. As a group, select the one speech you would present to the Martians and attempt to present it via body language and | | | |
|interpretive movement | | | |
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|Discuss the following with the young people: How can we link this to first impressions? Are they always correct? How can we | | | |
|communicate important things to someone new who might not have our perspective in life? What are the most important things to | | | |
|tell someone new? Sometimes we meet someone totally different than us in most ways. Have young people think of a time this | | | |
|happened to them. Were there any ways in which they were similar to each other, however? Sometimes it can be nerve-wracking to| | | |
|make a first impression, but it can help to remember no matter how different the other person is, we all have things in | | | |
|common. | | | |
|Talking Points | | | |
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|The First Time I Met | | | |
|Ask the young people if they can remember the first time they met someone new or significant. This might be a good friend, a | | | |
|teacher, a celebrity or anyone who made an impression. What do they remember about this person? Can they remember what they | | | |
|said, what they were wearing, what they did? | | | |
|How accurate do they think their first impressions were? | | | |
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|It Only Takes 20 Seconds | | | |
|First impressions happen really quickly. It’s said that interviewers make up their minds about a candidate in the first 10 to | | | |
|20 seconds. | | | |
|What kind of things do the young people think will be making that impression? For example, looking smart, facial expressions, | | | |
|friendly greeting, the way people walk or sit or make eye contact. | | | |
|Development |First Impressions Image | | |
| |resource | | |
|Using the First Impressions images or your own images showing a diverse range of people: | | | |
|Ask the young people to comment on which images they think show the person who is most and least friendly | | | |
|What are they basing their opinion on? | | | |
|Reflect: how similar and different were their first impressions? Did everyone in the group agree? | | | |
|How do we know if our first impressions are right? | | | |
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|First Impression Cards |First Impressions Card Resource| | |
|Hand out the First Impressions cards or write the words on the board and ask the young people to match the images to the | | | |
|words, for example: rich, successful, cool or scary. | | | |
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|Reflect on the consensus and difference. Do the young people all feel the same way about these characters? | | | |
|What gave them their first impressions? For example, did they think the well-dressed woman was successful, or the young man in| | | |
|the hoodie was cool or a criminal? Now ask the young people to think of a job for each person. Then compare choices and ask | | | |
|the young people to explain their reasons. | | | |
|Discuss the implications of first impressions. How do they affect your behaviour towards the person, or your assumptions or | | | |
|stereotypes about them? | | | |
|Discuss the importance of judging people fairly and treating everyone equally. | | | |
|Extension Ideas | | | |
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|Set a first impressions team challenge: Give groups of four young people a set of about five images and ask them to create a | | | |
|story (verbal, written or acted out) around them. Include images of people and places. They could: create murder mystery | | | |
|scenarios, do ‘a day in the life of’ or make ‘what just happened’ or ‘what happened next’ predictions. | | | |
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