Types of activities

Per unit above you will find a range of activities for each topic. You can choose from the activities to put your own lesson together according to the time available. You can choose, for example, to use the info cartoon for one lesson and in the following lesson do one of the other activities. Please see also the information on participatory learning to know more about constructing effective lessons in order to positively change attitudes, inform young people and build skills. You can also read the activity guidelines to get some extra tips per type of activity.


Here follows an explanation of each type of activity;

Goals:
Performance objectives / young people should be able to....
The goals are only accessible to the educator.

Warm up:
energize young people / prepare them for the subject of the lesson.
Warm up's contribute to skill building.

Info cartoons:
A presentation of the facts on the topic in question. The virtual peer educators share the information in a dialogue form, just like a comic.
Info cartoons contribute to informing young people.

Make:
A creative activity, which can be done on the computer or on paper.
Make activities contribute to positively changing attitudes and building skills.

Discuss:
A group activity.
Discuss activities contribute to positively changing attitudes and building skills.

Game:
An interactive and educative computer game.
Games contribute to informing young people and positively changing attitudes.

Quiz:
An interactive self assessment for young people.
Quizzes contribute to informing young people and positively changing attitudes.

Tips:
A list of tips regarding this topic.
Tips contribute to informing young people and skill building.