II. Group Activity: Element Groups

• To encourage movement.
• To allow for group work.
• To practice oral communication.
• To use group decision-making.

1. Women will get in groups according to the part of the person they wrote about. Each group will:
   1. Share freewriting with each other.
   2. Collectively define that part of the whole person.
   3. Based on their definition, select an object from the object table that symbolizes that element of the whole person.
   4. Write team definition on a quadrant of the whole person (medicine wheel).
2. Teams will present their element to the entire class:
   1. Post definition on quadrant on the board. Teams will “build” the whole person.
   2. To help visual and bodily kinesthetic learners understand that element of the whole person, the group will also present the object they chose to represent their element.

III. Follow-up: Building upon students’ knowledge

1. We will provide the students with “working definitions” of body, mind, spirit, and emotions.
2. We will also give the students the First Nation’s Medicine Wheel.

IV. Checking Understanding/Assessment

• To revisit objectives and make sure we have met them.
• To make sure women understand concepts before moving to the next lesson.

1. On a blank medicine wheel, women will write down one “new learning” that they have gained about each of the following: mind, body, spirit, and emotions.
2. We will collect these medicine wheels and return and revisit in lesson 2.

V. Closing Activity

• To bring closure to the day.
• To prepare for homework assignment.

1. We will give each woman a candle or self-care bag (with soap, lotion, shampoo, etc.) to take home.
2. On a card, each woman will write one way she will use this “gift” to take care of her body, mind, spirit, and emotions.
3. Each woman will share this with the class.