Author Topic: Ouija Board? (Read 4701 times)

BayouDrank · « **on:** October 27, 2015, 03:33:39 PM »

I was thinking about using a Ouija board for my advanced elementary class before Halloween. I might begin by introducing what it is, how people use it, the "rules", and some scary stories of things that have happened to people using them. No idea how it will turn out, anyone ever try this?

Imogen1991 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 27, 2015, 05:08:56 PM »

sounds like a parental complaint waiting to happen

Datasapien · « **Reply #2 on:** October 27, 2015, 05:14:04 PM »

Yeah, I think I have to agree with Imogen thar. Sounds fun (I've never tried one, but I'd like to!) but I'm sure if parents or some of the more sensitive teachers found out that you'd put students in contact with malevolent spirits, there'd be trouble.
But just introducing ouija boards and telling a few hair-raising stories shouldn't be a problem, I'd imagine.

Kliuchevskoi · « **Reply #3 on:** October 27, 2015, 06:22:43 PM »

Get a clue. These are young children in your care, vulnerable young minds. If my child was in your class i'd be outraged at you forcing spiritism on them.

airdrieboy1984 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 28, 2015, 07:29:17 AM »

This is the silliest elementary school lesson idea I have seen on this site. Seriously, Ouija board? Stick to snakes and ladders.

Athena · « **Reply #5 on:** October 28, 2015, 07:48:23 AM »

A ouija board is JUST A BOARD GAME, it's been made by a game company for years. It's no different from scrabble or snakes and ladders.

What grown adults actually believes a piece of card board and plastic can do harm? Scared of Casper that much??

belo horizonte · « **Reply #6 on:** October 28, 2015, 08:22:17 AM »

This is definitely one of the craziest ideas I've seen here for a while. On a par with the guy about a year ago who did a lesson on dating which included the phrase "take one for the team".

I'd love to see your co-teachers face when you explain what you will be teaching. Halloween is quite controversial in Korea, some English teachers have even been told off for putting decorations up in the classroom. Somehow I don't think a lesson on how to contact the dead will go down too well.

bjinglee · « **Reply #7 on:** October 28, 2015, 11:53:47 AM »

Quote from: Athena on October 28, 2015, 07:48:23 AM

A ouija board is JUST A BOARD GAME, it's been made by a game company for years. It's no different from scrabble or snakes and ladders.

What grown adults actually believes a piece of card board and plastic can do harm? Scared of Casper that much??

While it may just be a board game to you (and to me as well) a lot of the very conservative Christian parents here won't see it that way. Would you do this lesson back home if you lived in the Bible belt? No? Then don't do it here.

bjinglee · « **Reply #8 on:** October 28, 2015, 11:54:37 AM »

Quote from: Imogen1991 on October 27, 2015, 05:08:56 PM

sounds like a parental complaint waiting to happen

+1

lukamodric · « **Reply #9 on:** October 28, 2015, 12:01:47 PM »

Can't be a serious post, surely no body would be crazy enough to do an Ouija board lesson!!??

stephaniejt · « **Reply #10 on:** October 28, 2015, 12:09:01 PM »

Quote from: BayouDrank on October 27, 2015, 03:33:39 PM

I was thinking about using a Ouija board for my advanced elementary class before Halloween. I might begin by introducing what it is, how people use it, the "rules", and some scary stories of things that have happened to people using them. No idea how it will turn out, anyone ever try this?

I think that lesson might be too scary for elementary students. Scary things that have happened to people using them? Even if they are just urban legends. I would save supernatural and superstitious lessons for college or adult students. Even the word "dead" gets a big reaction from my elementary students so I wouldn't want to teach them something to scare them or make them feel uncomfortable.

Soggysocks · « **Reply #11 on:** October 28, 2015, 12:17:50 PM »

I personally don't mess around with Quija Boards, and some of your students may be into it, but I would pass on that lesson. Remember a couple of months ago when Charlie Charlie took every Korean child by storm? I had some sixth graders that couldn't concentrate in class for weeks because Charlie said yes to some silly question.

Make masks and show them Thriller.

Space · « **Reply #12 on:** October 28, 2015, 01:48:05 PM »

Heading home. Thanks for the laugh, OP.

OP, be sure to run through all your ideas on Waygook. Somehow I get the feeling that something like this as an occurrence isn't too far a stretch for you.

If in doubt, Waygook it out.

Kliuchevskoi · « **Reply #13 on:** October 28, 2015, 07:28:24 PM »

Quote from: stephaniejt on October 28, 2015, 12:09:01 PM

Scary things that have happened to people using them? Even if they are just urban legends.

Try this perspective:
http://www.gotquestions.org/ouija-boards.html

and maybe Google e.g... "Ouija board ruined my life/ ruined lives".

Quote from: bjinglee on October 28, 2015, 11:53:47 AM

Would you do this lesson back home if you lived in the Bible belt? No? Then don't do it here.

Some foreigners view Korea as a licence to do things or teach things that they would never do back home.

What next, a heroin lesson to introduce the kids to western culture?

BayouDrank · « **Reply #14 on:** October 29, 2015, 08:14:03 AM »

Too late...the gate has been opened...jk, thanks for the input.

Don't worry, I won't be doing this.

akxls2 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 02, 2015, 08:29:29 AM »

Actually if you take spirit theme out of it, it could be an interesting warm up game. make a ppt with the alphabet and the something that can move over the letters. The students have to watch and see if they can read the word or sentence.
Also ouija boards are fake and nothing bad will happen. However, it would probably result in some sort of complaint.

randall111 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 14, 2017, 02:04:23 PM »

Wow, this is one of the more interesting ideas I have seen on waygook.org. Ouija boards are more than just pieces of paper and plastic. I should know because when I was younger, I created a Ouija board out of paper and play with a friend of mine. It worked incredibly well for just being paper. I asked it how I would die. The Ouija board spelled out melanoma, which is a form of skin cancer. Then the eye continued to move around the board when I expressed my fear and disbelief. I took the board and the eye, and my friend made a fire. As I was putting them in the fire, the eye kept moving. Think all you want to about the innocence of a Ouija board. My experience however left horrifying scars.

theman3285 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 14, 2017, 03:13:50 PM »

Quote from: randall111 on July 14, 2017, 02:04:23 PM

I created a Ouija board out of paper and play with a friend of mine. It worked incredibly well for just being paper. I asked it how I would die. The Ouija board spelled out melanoma, which is a form of skin cancer. Then the eye continued to move around the board when I expressed my fear and disbelief. I took the board and the eye, and my friend made a fire. As I was putting them in the fire, the eye kept moving.

Definitely tell your kids this story, OP.

Aristocrat · « **Reply #18 on:** July 17, 2017, 09:55:48 AM »

Quote from: BayouDrank on October 27, 2015, 03:33:39 PM

I was thinking about using a Ouija board for my advanced elementary class before Halloween. I might begin by introducing what it is, how people use it, the "rules", and some scary stories of things that have happened to people using them. No idea how it will turn out, anyone ever try this?

Are you nuts?

Tell them ghost stories, play a Scooby Doo style mystery role playing game or make Halloween themed crafts.

DON'T do an Ouija board unless you want another story on KoreaTimes.

The furthest I've gone is shown some of my higher level students a Youtube video of a playing with an Ouija board and having the glass break and Kitchen cabinets open and close.
I wouldn't dare give them an actual Ouija board.

traveler · « **Reply #19 on:** July 17, 2017, 10:32:24 AM »

You can probably get away with Halloween as long as don't show anything too scary. I've done Halloween lessons for years with elementary, middle and high school students. But don't use a Ouija board. I wouldn't use it with middle school or high school students let alone elementary...It's a creative idea, but it spells trouble all over. Also if you are at a Christian school I would skip Halloween entirely.