Resources and Extensions – Module 1

The Social Identity Wheel worksheet (PDF) is an activity that encourages learners to identify social identities and reflect on the various ways those identities become visible or more keenly felt at different times, and how those identities impact the ways others perceive or treat them.¹ The worksheet prompts learners to fill in various social identities (such as race, gender, sex, ability/disability, sexual orientation, etc.). Then learners further categorize those identities based on which matter most in their self-perception and which matter most in others’ perception of them. The Social Identity Wheel can be used in conjunction with the Personal Identity Wheel to encourage learners to reflect on the relationships and dissonances between their personal and social identities.² The wheels can be used as a prompt for small or large group discussion or reflective writing on identity by using the Spectrum Activity, Questions of Identity.³

💡 Click on the play button below to start the video on getting to know your learners: How to Facilitate the Social Wheel Activity.⁴