Discovery Education suggests having the students plan a community service project to raise their self-esteem. Discuss how helping others can also help them feel better about themselves. Encourage them to work together at a homeless shelter, tutor disadvantaged children or volunteer at an assisted living center. The teamwork will help the students form friendships and begin to feel more comfortable with themselves.
The Public Broadcasting Service suggests a project exploring the media's relation to self-esteem. Break the students into groupS of three or four. Give them poster board and a variety of popular magazines. Encourage the group to cut out pictures from the magazine and then discuss what those pictures say about self-esteem. Talk about whether that media advertisement portrays a positive or negative image.
Break the students up into groups of four and tell them that they will make up their own public service announcement about self-esteem. The groups need to write a short two-to-three minute script and then perform for their classmates. Encourage the students to raise awareness about how low self-esteem can affect people today.
Pass out construction paper to the students. Have the students write five of their talents on a piece of paper. Then have the group discuss each of their talents. Cut out strips of different colored paper and have the students write their talents on the strips. Have all the students link the paper together to make a chain using tape or glue. Talk about how talents can work together to make one project successful. Education World states that this activity builds class pride and self-esteem.