Activity Building

A part of peer education training is activity building, creating activities with each other to play with our students in the fall. We are split into groups and have the choice from a list of topics to create activities with. So far my favorites have been bad decision making and ice breakers.
A group in my class gathered together and had the topic bad decision making, one girl found a video about a young man who was underage drinking with a couple of his buddies and jumped from a moving vehicle. He is now paralyzed from the waist down, one stupid choice changed his life forever. This goes to show students how one lapse of judgement can effect your life, I felt like this video would really hit students hard and make them think twice about decisions that they make.
Another activity that I really enjoyed was under the topic of icebreakers and the game is called the Snowball game. The game goes like this, everyone in the class takes out a piece of paper and writes down where their from, a family tradition and something most people don't know about you. Then the classroom is split into two groups and each group stands on either side of the room then..throw! When all papers have been thrown everyone picks up a piece of paper and tries to guess who's paper is who's. This game allows the students to get to know one another and not to judge a book by its cover, I thought this activity would be very effective and the students would really enjoy it and it also allows the peer educators and the teacher to get to know the students as well!