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Activity 1: The Ink Blot and You
Activity 2: Are you a Diver or a Wader?
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Activity 1: The Ink Blot and You

Have you ever tried making two identical inkblots?
Did you succeed?
An inkblot is so unique that it cannot be replicated no matter how many times you try to do so.

Do you know that you are like an inkblot?
No two persons are created exactly the same. Not even twins.
Do you know why?
It is because a person is made up of so many parts both physically and emotionally.

Not only is it impossible to replicate an inkblot; people look at the same inkblot in different ways too.

Look at the four inkblots below. What do you see in each of them and what does your friend see? Does each inkblot have the same meaning for both you and your friend?

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Activity 2: What Type of Learner are you?

1. You have a new computer game. Do you figure out how it works by:
A. Reading the instruction manual, or
B. Try it out immediately using your knowledge of computer games, looking at the manual only when you get stuck?

2. You prefer to learn swimming by:
A. Taking weekly lessons from a coach, or
B. Jumping right into the water and try to do it yourself?

3. Which do you think is something you will never forget?
A. A poem you memorized, or
B. How to skate?

4. You will keep working on a project where:
A. You are supposed to find information and make a presentation to the whole class, or
B. You are satisfying your own curiosity?

5. You are at a street where there is no traffic, will you:
A. Walk to a traffic light to cross because it’s the law?
B. Walk right across after checking both ways?

6. You bought a game with complicated instructions. Do you:
A. Read all the instructions before beginning, or
B. Get someone who knows the game to show you how it works?

What your answers mean:
> More Bs than As means that you learn through trial and error.
> More As than Bs means that you would rather know where you are going before you start something.

One way isn’t necessarily better than the other. Most people use more of one than the other.

Adapted from PSYCHOLOGY FOR KIDS II by Joni Kincher

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