40 Activities

40 Activities

Sep 25, 2024

As part of our 40th Anniversary celebrations, we're sharing 40 activities for you to use in your classroom. We'll add more each month during the 2024-25 academic year - click the links to access the activities.

These two classroom activities were shared in our November 2024 e-newsletter:

  • Pass the Story - this activity helps promote active listening and supports collaboration and empathy-building while supercharging young peoples’ imaginations

  • Peer Compliment Chain - this activity helps with building a caring community in the classroom

These two outdoor activities were shared in our October 2024 e-newsletter:

  • Sound Landscapes promotes active listening, nature connection and critical thinking
  • Trust Walk promotes cooperation, communication skills and taking care of others

These two were shared in our September 2024 e-newsletter and relate to friendship through empathy-building:

  • A friend is someone who... is a series of connected activities designed to help young people identify attitudes and behaviours which are important for friendship and to encourage actions and ways of speaking that show care
  • Empathy minute helps young people see the world through the experiences of others

These first two were shared in our April 2024 e-newsletter to member schools in preparation for the Youth Climate Summit in July: