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Description

Introduction:
This activity aims to help groups think about discrimination. You may want to write down a definition of discrimination and reveal this
to the group after the session.

Discrimination: The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age or sex.

Resources

• Printed oranges, enough for 10 each
• Scissors
• Crayons or colouring pencils

Instructions

Instructions:
1. Split the group in half, label one half ‘A’ and the other ‘B’. You may want to use a game or challenge to do this.
2. Give the groups a few minutes to talk to each other. What do they think is special about their group? Can they see any differences or similarities between the groups?
3. After two minutes split the group into teams of five or six people.
4. Note: These teams should have a variety of ages and different numbers of ‘As’ and ‘Bs’.
5. Ask each team to sit down together. Explain they will have ten minutes to colour in as many oranges as they can.
6. Hand out an equal number of orange images to each person.
7. Give half of the groups a pair of scissors. Explain to the groups without scissors they can nominate one ‘A’ from their group who is allowed to borrow and use the single pair of scissors at the front of the room.
8. The ‘Bs’ can collect their own crayon or colouring pencil and colour in their oranges where ever they like. The ‘As’ must come to the front of the room to share a crayon or colouring pencil. They can only bring one orange to the front at a time.
9. After five minutes move people between groups. Ensure some groups are mostly ‘As’ and others mostly ‘Bs’.
10. After a further three minutes ask all ‘As’ to sit down. They can no longer help with the task. End the game after two more minutes.
11. Ask each group to share how many oranges they have coloured
.

Discuss together:
• How did it feel to have different resources?
• How did ‘As’ feel to have less resources and how did ‘Bs’ feel to have more?
• Do you think the rules of the game were fair? How would you change them?
• What do you think this activity shows us about men and women?

Learning Outcome:
• Understand what discrimination is and discuss how it feels to be treated differently.

Tags

• #TeamGirl 2018
• discrimination
• Inequality

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