Risky situations - storytelling

Topic
- Society
Learning skills
- Self-management & future orientation
- Self-awareness
- Problem solving & decision making
- Communication & expression
Activity type
- Group discussion
- Physical distancing
Materials
- Printable downloads
Age
- 6 - 11 years
- 12 - 14 years
>15 minutes
2 - 4 players
Intermediate
Calm
Small (office, pavement)

Contributors

Mobile School

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Everything you need to play this game

Educational game SOCIETY A4 Download society-a4.pdf (52.3mb)

A step-by-step guide to play the game

A player chooses one situation from the game board and talks about what is happening and what is risky in that specific situation (e.g. a child is being beaten because it didn't make enough money on the street. Father beats with chair and is clearly drunk. Other child witnesses what is happening.)

After explaining the situation, the other players must find a possible continuation/action to react to the situation on the game board. Possible actions to choose from are:

Find help
Take action: confrontation or avoidance
Be passive, don't act
Joker: they can choose themselves

All the players make a roleplay out of it and discuss the chosen reaction. Topics that you can talk about in the discussion are: Shelter, love, freedom, money, clothes, school, safety, friendship, health, food.

Repeat with another situation of the game board.

Extra game information

Discussion board with 137 situations, both positive/neutral and risky. The game board is divided in different areas: apartment building, city centre, factory, train station, refugee center, school, border post, beach and harbor, village and the underground (metro and mine area).

Variations

Play a situation and the players guess which situation it is. Then play a consequence or a reaction, the players guess again.
Play a situation, freeze when it's getting negative. The players look for a positive solution.

Specific learning objectives

Talk about risky situations and their daily reality.
Learn how to react when being confronted with risky situations.
Learn about how to avoid risky situations.

What people said about this game

Sander Degeling

Partnership Coordinator Africa & Asia StreetwiZe • Mobile School BE

22 August, 2019

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This panel is full of situations street-connected children are confronted with on a daily basis... The storytelling methodology is a fun, creative and accessible way to reflect with the children about risks they face on the streets and how to deal with them.

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