Thursday, July 3, 2014
Simulation to build trust and help students think about what they can offer
You all were invited to take a special boat trip to the
Philippians for educational purposes. Along the way your boat hit a terrible
storm and sank. You were fortunate to make it alive on a lifeboat and after 2
weeks at sea you have spotted land.
You landed on the island and were greeted by a tribe that
has never been heard of in the world. They kidnapped you and brought you to
their village to see their king.
You are all tied up
and surrounded by the entire village they inform you that the king will allow
only one person to talk to him.
That one person must convince the king why he should let you
live and what you can contribute to their people. If that one person does not
convince him why you should live he will feed you to the island monster.
You will be given 45 minutes to pick someone to speak for
you and then prepare them to answer the following questions.
Give a
reason for every person in your boat to live.
How can
each person individually contribute to our tribe?
What
talents and gifts does each person individually have?
How will
you as a group better our island
Give the
king a reason why he can trust each person individually.
If the spokesman fails to convince the king about any
individuals worth then the king might choose to let that person die. Be careful
who you choose to represent you and who you choose to trust your life too.
At the end of the 45 minutes the king will listen to your
spokesman’s plea.
Sun Tzu Simulation
Sun Tzu
“If you know the enemy and know
yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know
yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a
defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every
battle.”
So we are going to simulate our
enemy.
The year is 2050 you are all
experience professionals who are working for the most powerful person in the
world Dr. Friend. Her desire is to take power over the entire world but she is
not content with just controlling countries she want to try to control people’s
wills.
Your task is to come up with three
different plans for three different objectives. At the end of the allotted time
(which you do know how much time you will be given) you must have three plans.
If Dr. Friend likes your plans she may let you live to carry them out if she
does not like them, imagine the worst that can happen to you and she will make
it happen.
First objective is to, make the
people of the world choose to give up their personal freedom and submit to the
control of Dr. Friend without any fight.
Second, make people choose to join
Dr. Friend in doing harm to others.
Third, make people unhappy and
apathetic about life.
Start a Revolution
You are all from a country that is living under a tyrannical
queen you have figured out how to communicate across the country through
technology and have gathered as the countries leaders pushing for a revolution.
Your communications could be monitored by the government so
you need to be careful what you say.
In the next hour you must figure out how you are going to
accomplish the following.
Get the people of the country to unite and revolt
Get an army sufficient to even fight the government
Get the word out to the people about the revolution without
the government knowing who is starting it.
Decide what to do if you actually do get the Queen
overthrown.
How best to dethrone the Queen
Many Simulations that I have used in Key of Liberty Class
Bullies on the
Playground
Your children all go to the same elementary school you have
been having trouble with bullies and inappropriate behavior on the playground.
You have all gathered to find a way to fix the problems. You can’t make any
rules for the playground because you are not the Principle you are just
parents. You have 15 minutes to find a way to solve the problem of bullies on
the playground without making rules.
To help understand the need for rule of law
Simple reflective
simulation
You are you it is today!
America has more taxes then ever before many of the injuries of that king are
happening in our country today. What can you do to change the course of our
nation? What can you do to preserve freedom?
You have 20 minutes and I
want a real answer something that you really could do.
Teaching morals
America is falling apart and we need a drastic shift in our
nation to keep us from falling as a nation. You are the top experts in
education and president has gathered you together to come up with a way to
teach morals to the youth today.
Ambitious
Courage
Strong Moral Compass
Honest
Diplomatic
Trusting
You have all of the resources of the nation the sky is the
limit to what you can do. You must come up with a way to teach one specific
character trait to youth. You will be in groups of 5 and you will have ten
minutes to come up with a plan. Pick a group leader to present your plan.
What kind of Character does it take to make a good
president?
First ask what is the job
Then ask what is being required.
Raising an army for
General Washington
General
Washington needs more troops and he has asked for the Philadelphia militia to
come and help fight. Because it is militia the citizens must vote to decided
whether they will send their men to fight. You are gathered at a town meeting
discussing the pro and con to fighting.
Tories
You do not
want to leave the British Commonwealth. Most of your family is from England and
if you go to war with them then you will be forced to fight your family and
friends.
Your main
source of trade is with the British and that his how you make money.
You don’t
want to see thousands of men die and people suffer because we go to war.
You need to
come up with a powerful argument to make the rebels see your point and agree to
vote with you to keep the militia home. Come up with 5 point as to why not to
fight and pick a spokesman to represent your points
Rebels
You are tired
of the British even though your family is British you don’t want to be under
the control of the king anymore. You see that it is not a healthy situation for
America and her future to be under her control.
You must come
up with a powerful argument to convince the Tories that you need to fight the
British.
Come up with
5 point as to why not to fight and pick a spokesman to represent your points
Freedom or security
We are living in the middle of World War 3 it is 2040, you
are all grown up and have kids of your own. Because your older you don’t have
to fight in the war but you do have to supply food for the war and because of
that people are starving and hunger is everywhere. The government has come up
with a program what will bring food to your family and kids but in order to do
it you have to allow for government trained men to come in and take over the
teaching of your children. Your children will be required to go to the
government run school from 7 am to 7 pm so you can work all day in the fields
getting food.
You are gathered in a town meeting to discuss if you as a
town are going to let people starve to death or let the government program run
in your town.
The mayor of the town Brenna will be conducting the meeting
at the end you will need to all vote to decided what you are going to do.
It is 1770 you live in Boston Mass. Your town has become
subject to British troops just the other day they killed 5 civilians you have
gathered in the town hall to debate as to what must be done to protect your
homes and families and keep your freedoms.
You are gathered here to discuss whether the attack
justifies using guns to fight back. Whether this attack means full on war or if
we should sue for peace.
Keep in mind while you discuss that once you commit to
fighting you cannot quite you must either win or die trying. Remember that
Great Britain is the world’s biggest power and you have no navy and no
army.
Britain is also attacking your unalienable rights with
parliament not letting you have any say in the laws that are being past that
you must abided.
George Washington’s rules of civil conduct
The year is 2122 after the last major war the world is dying
to save mankind we are sending a rocket ship with young children to the next
galaxy to inhabit a planet that will sustain life.
You are part of a council and you have been asked to put
together guidelines to teach the youth rules of how to act and behave.
We have to come up with a list of guidelines and rules to
teach the only humans that will survive.
You must come up with a list of 10 things to give as
guidelines as to how to behave in society and as a person.
Congress has called you to act as an envoy to France to
solicit help in the war. The king and his council have decided to give you a 10
minute audience. You need to prepare every point you can think of as to why
France should help America and you must do in an a very diplomatic way. The
King (Tanner) and his council of Wesley, Emma, Haylie, kylee and Timothy after
hearing your case will decided on weather or not to give ad to America.
You must pick two spokesman to represent you and they and
only they can talk to the king. No one else is allowed to speak to the king.
You must tell the king everything you wish for his help and give him reason as
to why he must help you. This is the time to use your diplomacy and work
together.
Simulation on the Purpose of Government
Space year 4098 as rangers of the Galactic space government
your task is to travel space and find new planets.
You have found a planet and have found a new race of people
that are primitive you want to invite them to join your Galactic Space
Government but they really don’t see the need for it. They live in peace and
have not needed a government for many years they live in small families and if
people don’t agree they just kill each other and whoever is the best at
fighting is the safest.
You must come up with a list of 5 reasons as to why you need
a government and why they should join your government.
What is the purpose of government?
Why do you need to make one?
Why can’t they just live without it?
These are all questions that the new race of people are
asking.
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