Activity day 10/26/17

Today in class we did this activity that made us work as a team. We were broken up into 4 teams and each team got different materials. For example, in group 4 we had 1 sheet of blank paper, 1 sheet of dotted paper, 5 paper clips and scissors. And with those materials we needed to make certain items like a ring, hamburger, house, and a book. We had until the end of the period to finish all of the things we needed to make and whoever gets all of it correct and finished gets a free bagel tomorrow morning. My team lost unfortunately, however we were able to get all of the pieces together but not on time. Our plan was to get all the materials that we needed to make the things and we sort of had all of them but we were short on paper. With at least 5 minutes left we decided to have a trade off with Sean's group and if we won we would give them half of our bagels but we didn't finish in time. I believe we lost because my team wasn't communicating as much as I wanted them too and it was just one person would take this object and work on it themselves. While the rest of the group just sat there and did nothing. I also believe that if we communicating more we could've won the free bagels but that just wasn't the case. And to be honest personally I usually like to take control of any kind of situation and when I tried to do this I think everyone else that I worked with is the same way and they started to go off to do what they wanted to do.  It was a fun activity and the whole purpose of it was to see how well we can communicate as a team.

Overall this activity can be used in today's world when you are working on a project with multiple people and/ or if you are stranded somewhere and you have limited resources you need to learn how to communicate with other people to get what you need. This activity made me realize how important it is to communicate because if you were stranded and had limited resources you need to be creative and know how to persuade the other people to give you their stuff.