Have you seen this awesome, empowering book? It’s one of my favorites for lessons on goal setting, perseverance, and empowerment. It’s a fun book to use in classroom guidance lessons or in small groups. Grab this one for a January lesson on New Year’s goals setting or for year-round perseverance! You and your students will have a blast with these Rosie Revere, Engineer counseling activities!
Rosie Revere, Engineer Counseling Activities
Reactions & Responses:
After reading the story, talk about students’ reactions and responses to what they’ve heard!
- What character traits or qualities do you think make a great engineer? Which of these did Rosie demonstrate?
- Have you ever made something or had a big dream that someone laughed at? What’s that like? What did you do afterward?
- How do you feel when you try something new and fail the first time? How do you help yourself keep going?
- How did Rosie’s great great aunt change her perspective about failure?
Activities:
Card shelf: in small groups of 3-4, students will construct a shelf or table out of only notecards and paperclips (you can also give each group a deck of cards instead of notecards). Students may use only the cards and paperclips to create a shelf or table that can hold a textbook. Encourage students to take their failures and use them as learning opportunities as they move forward with their designs! Extension: if students are able to stack one textbook on their shelf, challenge them to add another book!
Partner dreams: Students will interview a partner to find out a goal or dream they have for the future. Then, students will individually use a variety of materials (i.e. straws, bottles, newspaper, tape) to build something that can support their partner in their dreams (i.e. if a student has a dream of to surf the biggest wave in the world, the partner might build a surfboard with an oxygen tank or propeller).
Debrief:
- Tell us about your first failure in this project.
- How did you use your first failure?
- How did you feel when your design failed? How did you move forward?
- How can we be classmates and peers who encourage others in their goals, dreams, and innovations?
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