This past Wednesday, lab started out as an mystery. Laura slid a sketchy mini van into the Ferguson parking lot and big guys jumped out and put bags over my lab sections heads and threw us into the van before Laura peeled out of the parking lot and we were on our way to destination unknown.
Okay, that's not what really happened.
We calmly walked to Dr. Ewings van in the parking garage and I sat in the backseat so I could play with his children's toys. Laura drove us to the dollar store and said that we could spend five dollars on things that we could use in our classes this spring. We were supposed to think outside the box and pick things that we could use for creative activities.
I picked...
a yellow ball for my leadership class to write a marketing plan about. Why would people want a yellow ball? It also has a dual purpose as it can be used for review to ask questions and pass it around the room and who ever has it has to answer.
paper that had a picture of a suitcase on it so students could write in it what they thought the most important stuff that they were learning in it and could carry it around as their suitcase of knowledge.
coffee filters to use for drainage for different types of soil which can be used in my ag leadership class and my 8th grade exploratory agriculture
teacher signs on a stick that say things like be quiet, line up, etc but can also be used on the back side for the SWOT analysis, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for my marketing section. SWOT can also be used whenever making any major decision as it assess all angles of the decision.
play money for my students to think about budgeting and how much stuff actually costs in a variety of classes.
Overall, the class was really interesting and kind of fun when you got into it. It was a little frustrating at first because we were not use to this kind of setting and thinking out-side the box, but I think that people really got a lot out of it and will be able to use their items in the future.
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