Categories
Time
Allowance: 20 Minutes
Equipment Needed: None
Steps:
1.
Ask the large group to separate quickly into smaller groups that
you are about to announce. Alternate 50/50 splits (only two groups)
with multi-groups (many choices).
2.
Be upbeat in your presentation; keep the groups moving. As soon
as the milling around has slowed and istinctly smaller groups
have been established themselves, give the participants only
time enough to look at one another, say hi, then announce the
next categorical split.
3. The following list
is extensive and much larger than you would want to use during one presentation.
When I'm "doing" categories, I seldom present more than 10-12
groupings. Look through the list and pick those categories that appeal
most to
you. Be careful not to use an inappropriate
choice considering the age or maturity level of the participants.
Deciding who scrunches or folds toilet paper might not be the
best idea for a middle age school group.
Categories List
- Clasp your hands and fold your thumbs.
Is your right or left thumb on top?
- Fold your arms. Is your right or left
arm on top?
- Have someone look at your eyes and tell
you what color they are.
- Which leg do you put in your pants first?
- Are you wearing jewelry? Watches and wedding
rings don't count!
- When you clap, is your right or left hand
on top? Parallel hands?
- When you tap your foot to the music, do
you use the right or left foot?
- Do you print or use cursive when you write
a letter?
- Using your index finger as a pencil, draw
an imaginary circle in the air. Does your finger travel clockwise
or counter-clockwise?
- Again, using your index finger as a pencil,
draw a profile of a dog on the desk top. Is the dog facing right
or left?
- Which is your dominant eye? (Provide dominant
eye test procedures.)
- With which eye do you give a spontaneous
wink?
- Thinking of clearing a ditch or low fence,
off which leg do you jump?
- Standing, facing the foot of the bed,
on which side do you sleep if you sleep with someone else?
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