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active challenge:

singing telegram

Suggested Ages: K – 5th Grades

Sing it loud and proud! For today’s challenge, you’ll create a song or poem to appreciate someone important in your life. You’ll need to BE COURAGEOUS and share it with them, even if you feel nervous about performing.

Active Challenge: Fun, movement-oriented games and activities to spark innovation and creativity

This is no ordinary DIY activity for kids: It’s a step toward becoming an innovator.

 

Every Galileo Active Challenge gets kids moving and teaches the same mindsets that professional designers, engineers, artists and athletes use in their work. With skills like these, we believe you can change the world.

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Materials list:

Find these materials or a close substitute: 

 

  • Paper
  • Pen or pencil

 

Activity GUIDE:

Refer to these steps to keep young innovators on track:

1.  Choose a person (or people) to write a song (or poem) for.

 

2.  Think of a few things the person likes and a few things you like about that person—Ask: What is a nice memory you have with that person? How could we put that into the song/ poem?

 

3.  If writing a song, pick a song and sing about one thing you like about your person to the melody of the song.

 

4.  Perform the song or poem for the person being appreciated.

  • Support being courageous—If kids are reluctant to perform their song, remind them to focus on how much it will mean to the person being appreciated in the song, rather than how the performance goes.

 

More Ideas:

Every project presents opportunities to add your own twists or extensions. Here are some ideas to get you started: 

 

  • Create and perform a song with another person.
  • Make props and dance moves for the performance.
  • Record the performance and send it to multiple people.

 

Wrap Up Questions:

Lock in the learning by asking kids these questions about their activity and how they practiced the featured Innovator’s Mindset element: 

 

  • What is your favorite part of your song/poem? Why?
  • What parts of this activity were a courageous stretch for you? Do you feel proud of yourself for doing something that you were nervous about in the beginning?
  • How do you think other people benefited from you freely sharing your creative ideas?

SHARE!

The last step in the Gallieo Innovator’s Process is SHARE. Great learning can come from sharing successes and failures—to solidify your own experience as an innovator and to inspire others.

 

SHARE WITH galileo

 

Take a video of your performance and share it with the Camp Galileo Anywhere Facebook Community.

 

Share with family and friends

 

Your innovation doesn’t stop with you. Inspire someone else by sharing your project challenge—maybe they’ll try it themselves or maybe your project will give them a new idea.

 

  • Who: someone in your house, a family member, a friend
  • How: in person, on the phone, online
  • When: anytime, starting now!