| Sandra's guide pages |
| The five programme zones - celebrating diversity |
| To check out what sort of activities fit under "celebrating diversity", the Net Guides website is a good place to start. From their front page there is a tent for each of the five zones, click on the appropriate one to check out what they have included. A Net Guider describes how they have differentiated between this zone and global awareness: "In CelDiv we have pages for WAGGGS and various cultures' celebration days, plus other craft or ethnically "special" activities. In GloAwa we have global issues like peace and environmental awareness. Issues such as community awareness, fair trade, rights of the child and discrimination would also fit in GloAwa as they don't as much "celebrate" as give "awareness" - if you see the drift." Another good place to look is at the Baden Powell Challenge syllabus. The clauses are split by zones so this gives an idea of the "official" version of what goes where! The line between celebrating diversity and global awareness is very thin, if indeed it exists. The verdict on this from most guiders I've spoken to is: don't worry about it! If you could fit an activity into both then that's fine and it just means it's less hassle to cover all 5 zones. For example if you do a Diwali craft, you could count the craft as a skill, or you could count the theme as Celebrating Diversity, or the international aspect as Global Awareness. Example activities (according to my personal interpretation!) Banana drink (from Kenya) Christmas Quiz game (traditions from around the world) Swedish Heart Baskets (Christmas decoration) Law dilemmas - role play activity First Aid - active citizenship and the international pages |