The Market

Topic
- Society
Learning skills
- Self-awareness
- Cooperation
- Creative thinking
- Communication & expression
Activity type
- Group discussion
- Physical distancing
Materials
- Printable downloads
Age
- 6 - 11 years
- 12 - 14 years
>15 minutes
2 - 4 players
Easy
Calm
Small (office, pavement)

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Everything you need to play this game

Educational game SOCIETY A6 Download society-a6.pdf (17.6mb)

A step-by-step guide to play the game

One player chooses a situation from the game board and makes up a short story about it.

The next player brings in a new element to continue the story (e.g. a new character/object/situation/…). Suggested questions to facilitate the process:

What can happen next?
Who is the first person looking at?
Do you see similar persons on the panel?
How does this person feel?
Do you see characters with the same or an opposite emotion?

Then, a third player picks a character and again adds up to the story, connected to the previous person.

Continue until the story is finished.

Variations

Choose three different characters on the panel. The players link these characters to each other by inventing a story.
Search game: the players look for a certain situation as fast as possible. You can use the small squares on the right to search for.
Have a general discussion about the market with the players. Suggested questions: What is your favourite place in this market and why? With whom do you go to the market? Why? What are you mostly doing there? Do you have a lot of friends there? Did anything special happen to you at the market yet?

Specific learning objectives

Being able to be empathic with another person's situation.
Learn to express personal experiences, fantasies, thoughts and feelings through a story.

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