1.

Activity Title: Don’t Look at Me

2. Sources for your activity and for your adaptations (APA citations)
a. Don't Look at Me After School Activity. (2018).
Activeafterschool.ca/activities/dont-look-at-me Retrieved 24 February
2018, from http://activeafterschool.ca/activities/dont-look-me
b. Mobility Impairments | Disability Resources & Educational Services -
University of Illinois. (2018). Disability.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2 March
2018, from http://disability.illinois.edu/instructor-information/disability-
specific-instructional-strategies/mobility-impairments
3. Equipment needed
. No Equipment Needed
a. But Setup is required: Have participants sitting or standing in a circle.
4. Activity Description - How will you explain to your participants how the
activity will go? Task Analysis guidelines will help you with this part of the
assignment.
. Participants form a circle, and are all looking down.
a. When the leader says 'look up', all participants lift their heads up and look into
someone's eyes.
b. If they are looking at a participant that is looking at them, they both have to
scream and run around the circle.
c. When they look at each other, they could have to share a trait, fact or anything
about themselves.
When: This ice breaker activity is ideal when staff participants are ready to share
more than names with each other.
Why: This ice breaker activity allows participants to share interesting facts about
the random people that they meet.
Tip: Make sure that younger participants know to look into the eyes of another
participant and not up to the sky or ceiling.
5. Primary interaction pattern(s) (activity analysis) – Explain why you chose the
pattern or patterns you chose.
a. I would consider this activity to be Multilateral. There is a sense of action, with a
competitive nature, among three or more persons with no one person as an antagonist. I
would consider this competitive because it is like the ultimate goal is to not make eye
contact with the same person who is looking at you in order to avoid, the punishment of
running. But once you take away that punishment, such as in order to adapt for those with
mobility problems; then I would say it might be considered as Intragroup, since it would
then rid itself of the competitive nature.
6. Adaptation: One researched adaptation specific to a disability group. Be specific.
For example, saying someone has anger issues is not a disorder. However, a person with
anger issues might be diagnosed with conduct disorder. You may not use a particular
disability or disorder more than one time.
. Mobility impairment. Say one of the participants is Paraplegic (Having no
function of the lower extremities and lower trunk; typically uses a manual wheelchair and
has full function of arms and hands) instead of quickly running and screaming around the
circle like the activity identifies them to do. Instead, alter the activity so that the
paraplegic participants have more time to meet their partner (the person they made eye
contact with) in the middle of the circle. The two participants then can high five one
another, and take turns sharing an interesting fact about themselves to their partner and
the rest of the circle. They then can return to their seats in the circle. Another safety
precaution would be to ensure that the carpet/flooring where the activity is taking place is
safe for those in wheelchairs. Some safety precautions to include would be to tape
down/cover the edges of rugs to that the wheelchairs don’t get caught on the edges.