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Service Learning



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EDUCATION IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES

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TEAMWORK

Please review the following videos on Teamwork.

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Once you have completed watching the following videos, in pairs please attempt to answer the following questions:

1) Do I feel I work better as an individual or as part of a team? Why or why not? 2) What skills do I bring to benefit a group or team activity? 3) Give an example of a time you have been a part of a group with a positive result? What have you learned from that experience? 4) Give an example of a time you have been a part of a group with unsuccessful results? How does this experience help you moving forward? 5) How are you going to work effectively in a group with your Service Learning group?

Attempt some of the following group tasks. The key is to work together for a common goal Groups of 2-3 are strongly suggested. Can your group be successful? Or will it be a challenge?

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Try these hands on building activities.

**[|Back-to-Back Drawing] ** Working in pairs, one person must describe a shape without naming it, whilst their partner must try to draw the shape they are describing to try and get as close the original shape as possible. This activity focusses heavily on verbal communication and listening skills.

**__[|Pair and Group Stand up] __ ** Pairs sit back-to-back, arms linked and have to stand up together. When successful make a 4 and do the same

**[|All Adrift] ** Whilst on a sailing holiday, an accident causes the boat to set on fire, with just enough time to grab a few items at hand – the team have to decide which items are top priority. Working together the team have to use their decision making skills and cooperation to prioritize the ten items listed.

**[|Lights, Camera, Action] ** A firm favourite with corporate groups and my own personal favourite, teams are challenged to write and produce their very own 5 minute cinematic masterpiece. After picking a genre of film at random, teams stretch their creativity and race against the clock to have their final cut ready before the big premier

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #606569; font-family: "Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: "Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8dc641; font-family: "Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Calculator] ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #606569; font-family: "Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In this activity, the team has to touch all the numbers on the ‘calculator’ from 1 to 20 in sequence. They will get two attempts and the objective is to improve their time.

Winner/Loser
<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">Partner A shares something negative that happened in their life with Partner B. It can be a personal or work-related memory, but it has to be true. Then Partner A discusses the same experience again, but focuses only on the positive aspects. Partner B helps explore the silver lining of the bad experience. Afterward, they switch roles.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #606569; font-family: "Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The groups task is to design and market a product to present to the Dragons Den.
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This is Better Than That
<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Open Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">**Rules:** Pick four or more objects that are different (or the same objects that look different). Split all your participants into even teams. Describe a scenario where each team has to solve a problem using only those objects. This can be anything from “You’re stranded on a desert island” to “You’re saving the world from Godzilla!” Have each team rank the objects based on their usefulness in that specific scenario, along with their reasoning.