WHAT IS IDENTITY?

Video Companion Resource
Nico’s Big Questions: What Is Identity? | Video Companion Activities | SEL & Philosophy

What makes you you? Are you the same person you were yesterday? How do family, friendships, memories, groups, choices, and experiences shape who you become?

This engaging companion resource for Nico’s Big Questions: What Is Identity? helps students explore these big ideas through age-appropriate philosophy, SEL, critical thinking, discussion, and reflection.

After following Nico’s rainforest journey, students investigate questions about identity, belonging, labels, change, memories, relationships, and personal growth. Instead of searching for one “correct” answer, students are encouraged to explain their reasoning, consider different perspectives, and develop their own ideas.

What’s Included
Before-you-watch identity activity
Video viewing guide
Labels: Helpful or Limiting? activity
The Changing Canoe philosophical thought experiment
Yesterday Me • Today Me • Tomorrow Me reflection
Creative My Identity Constellation activity
Four Corners Philosophy classroom discussion
10 thought-provoking philosophy discussion cards
Evidence-from-the-film questions
Final Who Are You? reflection
Student exit ticket
Teacher discussion guidance
Perfect For

SEL lessons, philosophy for children, ELA discussion and writing, critical-thinking activities, morning meetings, advisory, gifted education, homeschool lessons, and classroom conversations about identity and belonging.

Suggested Grades: 3–6
Skills: Critical Thinking • SEL • Speaking & Listening • Reflection • Writing • Reasoning • Perspective Taking

Nico’s Big Questions: What Is Identity? invites students to discover that identity may not be a finished answer. Like Nico, they can consider how the people they love, the places they belong, their memories, choices, experiences, and even the person they are becoming can all be part of their story.

A thoughtful way to turn an animated story into a meaningful classroom conversation about one of life’s biggest questions: “Who am I?”