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The Plan B Game
TARGET:
3-5 years
INTENSITY:
5–7 min / Regular
LEARNING GOAL
Developing My Human-Human Co-Intelligence
PEDAGOGICAL INTENTION
Setting Fair, Equitable, and Respectful Rules
Target SKILLS
Socio-emotional Intelligence
Co-Intelligence Human-Human
Critical Thinking
MATERIALS
Play materials
DETAILED PROCEDURE
Gather the whole group together in a circle for this activity. Step in when a child's project isn't working, like a tower that keeps falling.
Step 1
Offer a strategy change: "What could our Plan B be to succeed?"
Step 2
Invite the child to look for and proposes another way to stack the blocks.
Step 3
Invite the children to try together to put this new idea into action.
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Step 10
PROGRESS INDICATORS
The child considers an alternative to an initial idea without getting upset.
Research Foundations
Denham (1998)
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