This simple game from childhood makes a very good game of review or a recap.
It can also be used as an assessment test of gauging how much have the participants learnt and understood from the session.
Time required for this activity is a minimum of ten to about thirty minutes.
Number of participants can vary from ten to hundred.
A to Z is played with paper and pen, preferably with some music played in the background.
Game instructions
The game can be played as a team game where the participants are divided into teams with equal members, or individually.
Instructions are simple! When the music starts , the participants need to write the letters of Alphabet from A to Z on paper.
Against each letter then, one writes in some concept which one has learnt in the training session. For e.g. In an introductory session of ID what someone could write would be:
A: Affective Domain, Activity Learning, Adult learning theory
B: Bloom’s taxonomy…..
…..
K: Kirkpatrick’s Model,
L: Learning Domain…..etc
The list needs to be as exhaustive as possible with as many numbers against each letter.
Light music in the background can make the game lively.
When the music stops the participants stop writing and exchange papers. The one with the maximum number of words written, wins!
Debrief :
After the winner is declared, the trainer reviews all the words together with the class, writing them together on a flip-chart or the board, if required. Then the concepts which are not clear to some, are explained and reinforced again.
There could be discussion and elaboration of the same depending on the time available.
This simple game helps one remember and recollect all that has been learnt. It also gives an idea to the trainer how much has been learnt.
Collective knowledge received from the adults is used as a material for review and reinforcement!
