STRUCTURED LEARNING ACTIVITY

TOPIC: SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

(Develop Skills for Starting and Maintaining Friendships)

ACTIVITY: Get to Know You Sociometric Questions

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: To provide a fun beginning.

 To provide a fun beginning.
 To relax initial social anxieties.
 To help create mutual respect and understanding to attain and maintain friendships.

ORIENTATION: The facilitator's warmth and friendly encouragement will help to break natural
hesitancy. Laughter is very healthy. The facilitator will give a brief description on the activity; it
is a sequence of questions which help students to find out about one another, move around, and
have fun.

INSTRUCTIONS AND ACTIVITY:

1. This activity is simply a series of "sociometric" questions which require participants to

arrange themselves in space in relation to other people according to various individual
and social characteristics.

2. (5-15 minutes).
 Find someone who:
= had the same breakfast as you
= has the same shoe size (or has the same size
= has a different religious belief
= you haven't met yet, but would really like to
= has the same favorite season
 = has the same favorite sense

⚫ Walk to / arrange yourselves according to:

= the place where you were born
= the place where you live
= a place you would like to visit
= a place where a memorable event took place for you
= also see People Map

⚫ Lineup according to:

= number of siblings
= thumb size
= number of glasses of water (or cups of caffeine) you drink per day
= Introversion/ extroversion how tired/ alert you feel
= number of different countries you've visited

3. Add variations if needed.

PROCESSING:
Data Gathering
Some process questions that may be asked:

1. How did you feel when you were able to find/ meet someone who matches what you
were looking for?

2. In what way has this activity helped you in building social relationships?
Analysis-Synthesis
The facilitator analyzes and summarizes the gathered data by getting commonalities. He expands
on the meaning of starting and maintaining friendships through mutual respect and
understanding.

TOPIC: SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS (Make Myself Attractive to Others)

ACTIVITY: 5 Ways to Make Yourself Highly Attractive

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
 To build up confidence
 To know the importance of self-worth

ORIENTATION:
INSTRUCTIONS AND ACTIVITY:
Here are five simple ways to focus on yourself in a positive way, letting go of what other people
think and making yourself highly attractive as a result:

1. Make a list of what you appreciate about yourself.

You're a great person. You have unique qualities that are all your own. There isn't anyone on the
planet that is exactly like you. Let's celebrate that!

Ask yourself: Who am I? What's great about me? How am I unique? Write your answers down
on paper.

Then, appreciate yourself! The more you do this, the better you'll feel.

2. Make a list of who you want to become.