Game of Trades

In doing the activity we did in class today, a lot of communication and collaboration was necessary.  It was extremely difficult in my opinion trying to figure out exactly what we needed to accomplish in the amount of time we had. Each item needed to be made a certain way and with certain materials which other groups may have had.  In order to get these materials we had to trade, however my group had issues trying to figure out what and how much of something we could have traded. 

My group could have worked together better, but the whole situation was very overwhelming and personally I don't like activities like that.  Towards the end of it we started to come up with more of a strategy, it was too late though.  Our group and another group were trying to so to say "ally" with each other in order to have one of us win.  This could have worked if we had thought of it in the beginning. 

Other things that set us back was the amount of resources we had.  We started to use things in different ways just to try and get things made.  For example we attempted to hold the four pieces of the house together with the paper clips by piercing the paper and twisting the paper clips closed.  Along with this we did the same thing with the paper clip on the spine of the book. 

It was an interesting ways to challenge us and to see how well we could work together to figure things out.