FORMAT
Lesson Presentation Slide with Directions
MOST APPROPRIATE FOR
Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School and older
Guided Meditation Activity
DESCRIPTION
This four-minute audio recording helps students relax, breathe, and envision a world free of a problem they care about. Useful as a pre-writing exercise when you are starting to create Dream Banners.
Before this activity they need to have already talked about a problem they care about. You could do this with the Solutions Snowball Activity or through discussion you lead.
Set up:
You will need either a projector with speaker attached or a speaker attached to your computer that’s loud enough for everyone to hear. Practice playing the audio. You will click a Play button on the slide or click the three dots and click the Play button.
Students don’t really need to see the slide for this activity but they must hear the audio. Have the space set up so students can write on a surface such as a desk after the audio recording without having to move or get up.
Materials &you will need:
Make sure students can clear the area around them from books and other objects. Each student a piece of paper and something to write with.
Steps:
Steps are listed on the slide. A few tips are:
- Give out or have students take out a piece of paper and something to write with.
- Have students clear their desk or space of everything except the paper and pencil or pen.
- Explain that this is a guided meditation to help prepare for Dream Banner writing.
- Help students recall a problem they care about and that they’d like to see gone in the future. You may want them to write this on one side of the paper and then turn it over to write on the other side after the meditation.
- Play the audio recording.
- Have students write and/or draw silently for a minute or more after the recording.
- You may ask them to share ideas and thoughts.
- Collect what they have written or have them save it for use in creating their Dream Banners.
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