Play the bartering game |
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| ROUND ONE Resources Each pupil will need three green and three red cards. Print cards from one of these files (Word doc version) (PDF version) Stopwatch How to win Be the first to make three matching pairs of red/ green cards. How to play 1) Shuffle the green cards. 2) Give out three green cards (each representing an item that you want) to each member of the class. 3) Shuffle the red cards. 4) Give out three red cards (each representing an item that you possess) to each member of the class. 5) Teacher starts stopwatch. 6) Pupils need to find who has the red cards that match their green cards. 7) Swap the red cards to match up with the green cards. (Everyone must hold on to their green cards and only swap red cards.) 8) Teacher stops stopwatch when first pupil makes three matching pairs of red/ green cards. ROUND TWO Resources Same set of green and red cards from Round One. Twelve red Roman coin cards. Print cards from one of these files (Word doc version) (PDF version) Four children to act as Roman Legionnaires Stopwatch How to play 1) Shuffle the green cards. 2) Give out three green cards (each representing an item that you want) to each member of the class. 3) Give out three red Roman coin cards to each Roman Legionnaire. Each one of these coin cards can be exchanged for a normal red card. 4) Shuffle the red cards. 5) Give out the red cards (each representing an item that you possess) to the remaining children, not the legionnaires. (Some will end up with four red cards.) 6) The legionnaires go in to the “virtual market” and buy the items they want with their coin cards. 7) Teacher starts stopwatch. Then everyone else starts trading in the normal way, but they can now use any red Roman cards they now have to buy the items they want. NB. Teacher only allows same amount of time taken to complete Round One. (Hopefully, more children will have successfully matched up all three pairs.) How many children made three matches in Round Two? How many children made more matches in Round Two than they did in Round One? What Can We Learn from the Bartering Game? |