Teaching the importance of Clear and Concise Communication

Knowing how to communicate well with others is an essential skill. Effective communication should generate the desired effect and maintain the effect, with the potential to increase the effect of the message. Therefore, effective communication serves the purpose for which it was planned or designed. Possible purposes might be to elicit change, generate action, create understanding, inform or communicate a certain idea or point of view.

Blindfolded Object Recognition

For this exercise, you need two sets of objects:

Use some of the objects in the classroom that kids are already familiar, Examples are:

Marker pen

Paper basket

Stapler

Computer mouse

Folder

Water bottle

Glove

Book

Watch

Glasses

Glasses container

Use some objects, which are not in schools, like:

A battery

A doll

A toy car

Kitchen sponge

Pegs

Coins

Lego pieces

Salt-shaker

Toothpaste

Toothbrush

Old mobile phone

Hair clips

Socks

Newspaper

Put both sets in a box and make sure no one can see them.

Now ask a child to come forward for this fun exercise. Blindfold the child. Pick one object from the box and give it to him/ her. Other kids should not say anything at this point. The child should feel the object and guess what it is.

If the child cannot guess the object, ask other kids to help him/ her by describing the features of the object but not stating the name of it. Whoever states the name cannot be a volunteer in the next rounds and gets out of the game.

You can then repeat the exercise with other kids one by one so they can all have a go at it. Each time they should pick a new object from the box.