Ready to use, team-building exercise for the classroom. Discussion and decision making skills.

This is the classic "Lost at Sea," exercise where students are presented with 15 items that they should rank in order of importance on their life raft having been "Lost at Sea."

It comes with a power point presentation that details the task, gives tips on completion and shows the correct answers.

Also it has a written sheet with the directions on for the students on, an answer sheet for them to complete and an answer sheet for the teacher with rationale for each ranking.

It is entirely up to you how you run the exercise but, for me, the most important part is how the students come to a decision and end up agreeing as opposed to getting the correct answers.

I have done this and the post-mortem discussion is always the most valuable and where one sees the best responses from students.