* Your class has received a $500 donation from a wealthy member of the community.
* Your group must decide on how to spend that money, from the options listed below.
* You have 20 minutes to decide, or the money will be given to another class.
* The group must agree 100% on the choice.

During this activity, practice effective listening skills:

S: Be Still; be Silent
H: Hear what others are saying; Hear what they mean.
A: Allow others to speak. Accept what they say as true for them. Pay Attention.
R: Restate what you heard the other person say, to be sure you understand.
E: Encourage others to speak.

Options:

1. Divide the money equally among all the class members.
   
2. Use the money to pay for a field trip for a class project.
   
3. Give the money to the Education Department for more educational resources.
   
4. Use the money to buy toys for local poor children and orphans.
   
5. Donate the money to an organization that provides meals for beggars.
   
6. Use the money to buy blankets and give them to homeless people.
   
7. Use the money to set up a recycling program to help save the environment.
   
8. Use the money to set up a scholarship for poor students.
   
9. Spend the money on a fun party for the class.
   

Purpose

This activity emphasizes the importance of working together, learning to cooperate rather than compete. Students learn to communicate better, especially to listen to each other's viewpoints, if they learn to trust each other and to solve problems together. In this way, ignorance can be replaced with knowledge, insecurity with confidence, and fear with love.

Based on an idea in Siccone & López, 2000, pp. 191 - 194.

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