Bulding a balloon tower

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  • Autor: 
    Betty Aggeletaki
  • Categoría: 
    Empowerment
  • Nivel de empoderamiento: 
    Self assertion, self-awareness, decisions and transformation actions
Resumen de la actividad: 
The general objective of this activity is by playing to think, decide and solve a problem with cooperation with others.
Duración: 
0.35horas
Idioma: 
Inglés
Empowerment related competences: 
Creatividad e innovación
Pensamiento crítico
Toma de decisiones
Descripción de la actividad: 

After the presentation about methodology of problem solving participant split in groups and trainer ask to built with balloon a tower as tall as they can.
Each group will have 10 balloons .Also on the desk will be pumps and tapes. The limitation is that groups will have one pump and one tape less . Example. two groups =one pump and one tape, three groups =two pumps and two tapes.
Participants need first to think what they have to do, then to decide how they can buld the tower of balloon and then how they can cooperate with others in order all to use pumps and tapes
After the finish of activity will we have discussion about the way that they think and the decision that they made as also how they felt about cooperation.

Descripción metodológica: 
Learning through play
Indicadores de evaluación: 
Learning through play : Participant have learned how to solve problem and how to cooperate with others
Recursos necesarios: 
Balloons, pumps, tapes
Archivo: 
Archivo problem_solving_activity-ballons.docx

Files needed for the implementation of the activity