The+Third+Gift+Reinforcing+Activity


 * Reinforcing activity **:
 * Students are divided into teams that act as a separate country.
 * There are 5-6 countries that fall under: 2 rich industrialized countries, 1-2 middle-income countries, and 2 low-income countries. Students are not directly told which country type their group is.
 * Prepare an envelope of resources per country (scissors, tape/glue, paper, pens/pencils, ruler, compasses). Each country will have different resources in different amounts that are fitting to their country type.
 * Put up posters around the room of different shapes worth different values that each country will have to create in 3D.
 * Only tell the students these directions: Each of the teams represents a country. The objective of each country is to make as much money for itself as possible by using the materials in the envelope. No other materials may be used. Use your materials to create the shapes posted around the room. Each shape must be the exact size as the diagrams and must be cut with clean sharp edges using scissors. The shapes can then be sold to the trader (teacher) in batches who will check them for accuracy and exchange them for cash. Inaccurate shapes will be rejected. You can create as many shapes as you like-the more you make, the richer you will become. You are not aloud to cut up your envelope. You are aloud to move around the room, but if you see me turn off the lights you must immediately stop what you are doing and pay attention. If there is any dispute I will settle it. My word is final. No physical force is to be used in the game.
 * Use a timer to let them know how long they have.
 * Students should work out what they should do on their own.
 * You can change up the game in different way by recognizing what shapes are being sold in large quantities and explain that because of supply and demand, the prices on the shapes have changed. Also have them note that when certain shapes are in demand, what happens to the demand of other supplies?
 * The goal is for the students to understand the idea of trading and why it’s necessary for countries and people to thrive. They should recognize that each country specialized (contained) important supplies that other countries did not have and that when they traded with other countries they were able to gain in some way whether it be in the variety of goods and services they had available or growing economically.
 * Connect this to __The Third Gift__. How did the boy’s father benefit from trading in the same way that your country did? How were the individual countries and the boy’s father the same? How does this differ on a large scale such as countries trading vs. a smaller scale like the boy’s father and the three wise men trading at the market? Etc.


 * Tags **: trade, scarcity, interdependence, supply, demand, profit, market, benefit, risk, reward

 **Other strands**: History and Geography