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Handout A: Book Stand Group Task Sheets

Handout A: Book Stand Group Task Sheets

Teacher Directions: Cut the following rectangles and pass them out face down to the various groups.

Political and Economic Freedoms Limited Political and Economic Freedoms
Your team’s goal is to build a book stand using the supplied pipe cleaners. Your team’s goal is to build a book stand using the supplied pipe cleaners. To help with organizing the team, read the following instructions.

The tallest member of the team is the absolute dictator. The rest of the team are his/her subjects and must listen to the dictator. If any subject does not listen to the dictator, the dictator will banish that person from the team and that person will receive an “F” grade.

The dictator would like a better educated population to compete with his/her neighboring countries. He/she has a plan for a book stand to hold various books while the population reads. Listen to how the dictator wants to accomplish building the book stand.
Your team’s goal is to build a book stand using the supplied pipe cleaners. Your team’s goal is to build a book stand using the supplied pipe cleaners. To help with organizing the team, read the following instructions.

The shortest member of the team is “the government.” The government wants the best and safest book stand. The regulations are:

  1. Have no sharp pipe cleaners poking out of the stand.
  2. The lowest angle of the book stand cannot be less than 30 degrees.
  3. The highest angle of the book stand cannot be more than 60 degrees.
  4. There needs to be a mechanism that holds the pages down on the left side and on the right side.

The government will enforce that all of the above regulations are being meet.
Your team’s goal is to build a book stand using the supplied pipe cleaners. Your team’s goal is to build a book stand using the supplied pipe cleaners. To help with organizing the team, read the following instructions.

Decide who the most righteous person of the group is and they will be the leader of the group. The most righteous leader wants a book stand to hold their book. Other members of the group will listen to the most righteous leader as to how the book stand should be constructed.
Your team’s goal is to build a book stand using the supplied pipe cleaners. Your team’s goal is to build a book stand using the supplied pipe cleaners. To help with organizing the team, read the following instructions.

The team member with the longest hair is the absolute dictator. The rest of the team are his/her subjects and must listen to the dictator. If any subject does not listen to the dictator, the dictator will banish that person from the team and that person will receive an “F” grade.

The dictator would like a better educated population to compete with his/her neighboring countries. He/she has a plan for a book stand to hold various books while the population reads. Listen to how the dictator wants to accomplish building the book stand.