Promoting 21st century skills
Team building games
Task 1: Make a list of team-building games you can use with your primary learners and give short description of their rules and procedure. Specify which 21st century skills they are aimed to develop.
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Game
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Rules / description
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21st century skills
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Onion Rings
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students make 2 circles
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students in the inner circle face outwards;
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students in the outer circle should face inwards
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each student in the inner circle should be facing a student in the outer circle
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students in the inner circle ask questions; those in the outer circle – answer
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teacher gives signals when to pass the sheets of paper with questions (clockwise or anticlockwise)
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communication
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collaboration
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creativity
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Movable game What I show
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students make a circle
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student A (a leader) is in the centre
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student A draws school supplies in the air
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student B or students in the class guess what object is it
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as soon as the student B guesses he touches it and becomes a leader
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collaboration
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creativity
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imagination
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Make a comic or detective story
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students write short simple captions or speech/thought bubbles to the pictures
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collaboration
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creativity
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imagination
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leadership
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personal development
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problem solving
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4.
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String toss
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teacher has a ball of thread and questions
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the student holds a ball and answers the question
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then throws the ball to another student holding the thread
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finally all are connected by the thread
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collaboration
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citizenship
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Task 2: Give the instruction. Keep in mind the golden rule of instructions “KISS” (keep it short and simple).
Name of the game: Moving song (minute of free movement)
Critical thinking and problem solving
Instruction:
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watch the video
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sing a song with a movie and do actions according to the song
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or according to the movie (may say the action: run, jump, go, listen, see, sing, play, open etc.)