Creating a Medicine Wheel

Teach them about the directions, colors, and what each part represents in our lifestyle.

Once they learned about the quadrants, I would have the kids think about themselves. What is

their strength and what is their challenge on the medicine wheel? I would document this by

giving two labels to each child to put on the medicine wheel. What quadrants did we have little

to no representation in? What are your strengths and weaknesses? We could them look at the

circle overall and make a graph as a class to see which areas we need to work on the most. This

could also help me as a teacher learn more about my students and class as a whole. We could use

a large sheet of paper and markers to create the circle, but if the children wanted their own

circles to take home as well or wanted to do this activity at home with their family they can use

markers and a paper plate.

This activity would hit several standards including OSEU 2: identity and resiliency;

standard 2.1. This would also cover social/emotional and spiritual/morals. This could also hit

small motor as well because the students are working on coloring and creating their medicine

wheel. By the end of this activity the students will better be able to identify their strengths and

weaknesses that they carry and they will know which areas they should work on.