Socially kind

Before you begin

1. Use the pen and paper to make labels with ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’ on them. Stick the labels around your meeting place. Alternatively, you could use ‘Kahoot! Quiz’ on a computer to run the quiz.
2. Use the pen and paper to make labels saying ‘True’ and ‘False’. Keep these to one side to put up later.

Do the ‘Social media quiz’

1. The person leading the game should read out one of the questions on the ‘Social media quiz’ sheet, with all of the answer options.
2. Everyone should move to the space labelled with their answer.
3. The person leading the game should tell everyone the right answer. Everyone should move back to the middle of the space, and play again until they’ve answered all of the questions on the sheet.

Walking debate

1. The person leading the game should label one side of the space with a ‘true’ label, and the other side with a ‘false’ label. They should put a piece of string between the labels to connect them.
2. The person leading the game should read a statement from the ‘Social media statements’ sheet.
3. Everyone should decide how much they agree with the statement. They should stand somewhere on the string line, depending on how they feel.
4. The person leading the game should ask everyone why they chose to stand where they’re standing.

Think about kindness and social media

1. The person leading the game should give out copies of the ‘Social media kindness photographs’ sheet.
2. Everyone should think of some other examples of where social media or digital tools have been used to show kindness.

Group activity

1. Split the group into teams. Each team should come up with a new way that social media can be used to do nice things.
2. Everyone should create a Dragon’s Den-style pitch to present their idea as a team. Anyone not familiar with ‘pitching’ an idea could instead write or record a code of conduct for the use of social media.
3. The person leading the activity should decide which team had the best idea and who gave the best pitch.

This activity helps contribute towards some of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Find out more about the SDGs, and how Scouts across the world are getting involved.