{"id":886,"date":"2021-06-07T10:06:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T07:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/?p=886"},"modified":"2021-06-07T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T07:06:43","slug":"walk-the-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2021\/06\/07\/walk-the-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk the Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When children have limited social interaction, it&#8217;s harder for them to take on the perspective of others, which is an important way children build empathy. This activity introduces a creative way to get children to put themselves in another\u2019s \u201cshoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Instructions<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Ask children to come up with a list of at least three animals that walk or run. For example, a caterpillar, a crab, and a giraffe.<\/li>\n<li>Invite children to move across the room as each of those three animals.<\/li>\n<li>When all children have had a turn acting like each animal, spend some time reflecting as a group.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Consider asking these questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How did you move your body differently to match each animal\u2019s movement?<\/li>\n<li>How does crossing the room like this make you think differently?<\/li>\n<li>What about the animal\u2019s walk was different from the way you normally walk?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/bayareadiscoverymuseum.org\/\">Bay Area Discovery Museum<\/a> for the idea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When children have limited social interaction, it&#8217;s harder for them to take on the perspective of others, which is an important way children build empathy. This activity introduces a creative way to get children to put themselves in another\u2019s \u201cshoes.\u201d Instructions Ask children to come up with a list of at least three animals that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2021\/06\/07\/walk-the-talk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dWalk the Talk\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}