Objective: Students should contribute during group work. Props: Chalks, a blackboard, ropes. Step by step instructions
  1. Tell participants they will do an activity to see which team is the first to complete a group sentence. Next, divide participants into two teams. If the group contains an uneven number, one person may compete twice.
  2. The leader sets up blackboards or newsprint for each team. The teams then line up 10 feet from their board. After giving the first person in each team’s line a piece of chalk or marker,
  3. explain the rules of the game.
  4. The rules are:
  5. Each team member needs to add one word to the sentence. Payers take turns; after they go to the board and write one word, they run back to give the next player the marker, and then go to the end of the line. (The sentence must contain the same number of words as there are members on the team.)
  6. A player may not add a word between words that have already been written. After, discuss the value of anticipatory thinking and the importance of individual cooperating in a group task).