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This one-hour class plan involves a traditional ice-breaking activity to introduce one of the more powerful tools that students will need, their personal and professional networks.
The ice-breaker has students grabbing a slip of paper with a question written on it. Each student then needs to find someone in the class who can answer that question. Many questions can be used. The set that I employ asks things like, 'Who can cook fish over an open fire in three different ways?' and 'Who has three older sisters?' and 'Who has been to Moscow or knows someone who has been?'
This class plan comes with a homework assignment that asks students to take an online personality test, to gauge their Gardner intelligence strength, and to draw a network including twenty friends and associates. This homework is debriefed in the activity included here in SkillCity titled -- 'To Know Me is to Love Me.'
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1 hour
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Science Communication Program, University of New South Wales
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