Question Bags
Overview: Continuing with our packaging theme, here’s a nice little activity to stimulate group discussion in an active format.
Number of people: Groups of up to 5 students.
Materials: Paper bags, pens and ‘answer slips’ (strips of card or paper).
Time: Around 5-10 minutes.
Directions:
1. Write a question on the outside of a paper bag and have enough bags for groups of four to five students
– a different question on each bag. The bags should be sealed – with tape or staples – leaving a small slit wide enough to ‘post’ an answer slip into the bag.
2. One bag is issued to each group and students discuss their answer to the question. A designated member of the group writes the group’s answer on a piece of card or paper with the group’s name at the top so as to identify their answer later.
3. Bags are rotated between groups through three or four ‘rounds’; ie, bags are passed from table to table so that each group gets a new bag with a new question to answer. They repeat the process of ‘posting’ their answer into the bag so that there are three to five different answers in each bag.
4. In the final round, each group rips open the bag they are given and they decide, as a group on the best answer before reading it out to the rest of the class. (If you have time to spare, you can leave a few days between steps 3 and 4 to simulate Royal Mail first-class post.)
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