Do you love word games? Here is one that trainers can use with adult participants to review key concepts of a training while having fun at the same time.
Purpose: To allow participants to enjoy some friendly competition while reviewing key concepts of the program.
Audience: Group of 35 or less, divided into teams of four to six.
Time: 5 minutes for the exercise; 10 minutes for the debrief
Space: Enough room at walls for each team to have a single sheet of flip chart paper hung with tape
Materials: one piece of flip chart paper and markers per team, tape for hanging paper
Application: Participants follow the rules for a Scrabble game, writing words vertically or horizontally from the starting words
Process:
1. Create a set of words from your content that form the beginning of a Scrabble board.
2. Have participants copy the words onto a flip chart sheet they’ve hung on the wall. Announce that when you say, “go,” their job is to come up with as many words, ideas and concepts from the session as possible and write them into the Scrabble board. Tell them this is for a prize, and you will call time at five minutes.
3. Tell them when to begin. Call time at five minutes.
4. Have the teams share the words they wrote down. As the words are read, have the other teams cross off duplicates. When all teams have read their words, they will count the number of unique words that they have on their chart to determine the winning team.
5. Award prizes to the top team.
Debrief: Ask participants to define or explain each of the words on their board, thus reinforcing the learning.
This activity was taken from SCORE! by Rich Meiss and Doug McCallum.
