Day 14 90 min.
Objectives:
Students will think about how their differences actually is their strength.
Bellwork: 10 mins.
Students answer the following questions.
• What is diversity?
• What does it mean for your team?
• What does it mean for this game?
• What does diversity mean in solving problems in the real world?
Pregame: 40 mins.
Talk about the different strengths that are to be found in your class.
Read this article with your students:
http://bigthink.com/alicia-wallace/breaking-the-binary Feel free to summarize if necessary.
Talk about ways that as a class you can stop using labels, or stop separation from groups.
Questions for thought:
• What does it mean to be in the minority for something?
• What other binaries exist that can separate people?
• For personal reflection: What are ways that you have made someone the other? How can you make them not so distant?
Game: 30 mins.
Set game timer and click “End Day” on your website.
Let people start to negotiate.
Conclusion: (10 mins.)
Have students answer the question below and then share your answers.
What is the one thing that has to get done in the one last day of the game?
Further Readings:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/26/world/middleeast/emirates-secretly-sends-colombian-mercenaries-to-fight-in-yemen.html
http://www.cnbc.com/2014/09/15/worlds-most-pirated-waters.html