Tag Archives: Games that Teach

April 20, 2011

Finding Measures (GAME)

Audience Teens and Adults Time 15-20 minutes Description This game challenges team members to find ways to measure their progress towards a goal when the way to measure their progress is unclear. Scriptures 2 Corinthians 10:12 Materials Graduated pitcher … Continue reading →

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Filed under Evaluation, Feedback, Game, Games that Teach, Hands-on, impact, Management, Performance

Tagged as 2 Corinthians 10:12, analysis, comparison, creativity, dash board, dashboard, data, estimate, estimation, feedback, Game, Games that Teach, guess, guessing, indicators, measurable, measurement, measures, metrics, milestones, numbers, performance, progress, tracking

February 24, 2011

Shared Resources (GAME)

Audience Children, Teens, Adults Time 20-25 minutes Description This game teaches that we often need to share resources in order to be successful. Competition with others outside the team is usually productive, but competition within a team can create a … Continue reading →

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Filed under Apostles, competition, Game, Games that Teach, Group Dynamics, sharing, team, teambuilding, teamwork

Tagged as abundance, Acts 2:42-47, apostles, collaboration, competition, cooperation, disciples, equipped, equipping, first century church, Game, Games that Teach, Jerusalem, limited resources, lose-lose, mats, mentality, outcomes, productivity, race, scarcity, shared resources, sharing, team, team building, teamwork, travel, win-win

February 20, 2011

Negotiation Game (GAME)

Audience Children, Teens, Adults Time 30-40 minutes (longer if you use the Bible study at the end) Description This game teaches about negotiation skills and going for win-win. It has elements of a “Gotcha” activity (an activity where participants are … Continue reading →

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Filed under Abraham, Abram, competition, Game, Games that Teach, Intercession, Negotiation

Tagged as Abraham, Abram, activity, bargaining, competition, exercise, Game, Games that Teach, Genesis 18:1-33, God, Gomorrah, gotcha, lot, negotiate, negotiation skills, negotiator, Sodom, strategy, win-lose, win-win

February 17, 2011

High-Performing Numbers Game (GAME)

Audience Children, Teens, Adults Time 20 minutes Description This game is a “Gotcha” activity. (A “Gotcha” is a training activity that is designed to create a paradigm shift in the participants’ minds. It is set up so that the participant … Continue reading →

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Filed under Body of Christ, competition, Game, Games that Teach, team, teambuilding

Tagged as addition, awareness of need, champions, championships, competition, Ephesians 4:11-12, Ephesians 4:16, Game, Games that Teach, gotcha activity, High Five!, high-performing teams, Ken Blanchard, math, mathematics, method, Nehemiah 3:1-32, none of us is as smart as all of us, numbers, organization, planning, race, responsibilities, roles, Sheldon Bowles, sports, strategy, system, teamwork, trick

January 23, 2011

StrengthsFinder Theme Sorting (GAME)

Audience Teens, Adults Time 15-20 minutes Description This game helps participants to become familiar with and remember the 34 Clifton StrengthsFinder Themes through a competitive sorting activity. Participants should have taken the Clifton StrengthsFinder or StrengthsQuest assessment at www.strengthsfinder.com. You … Continue reading →

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Filed under diversity, Game, Games that Teach, Icebreaker, memory, Strengths

Tagged as Achiever, Activator, Adaptability, Analytical, Arranger, Belief, Clifton, Command, communication, competition, Connectedness, Consistency, Context, Deliberative, Developer, Discipline, Donald O'Clifton, Empahy, familiarization, Focus, Futuristic, Gallup, Game, Games that Teach, harmony, Ideation, Includer, Individualization, input, Intellection, Learner, many parts, matching, Maximizer, memorization, memory, one body, Positivity, Relator, responsibility, Restorative, Romans 12:4-5, Self-assurance, Significance, sorting, Strategic, Strengths Finder, Strengths Quest, StrengthsFinder, StrengthsQuest, Themes, Woo

January 17, 2011

Under the Radar (GAME)

Audience Teens, Adults Time 30-35 minutes Description This game helps participants to understand how challenging it is to get feedback “in under the radar” without raising the intended recipient’s defensiveness. Participants will enjoy trying to get beanbags into a target. … Continue reading →

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Filed under acceptance, conflict management, Conflict Resolution, discipleship, Evaluation, Game, Games that Teach, Hands-on, heart, Humility, leadership, Relationships, self-image, Spiritual Growth, team, Transformation

Tagged as advice, anger, beanbag, blame, blind, block, building relationships, coaching, communication, defensive, defensiveness, denial, Fear, feedback, Game, Games that Teach, heart, interpersonal, Johari's Window, lack of awareness, leadership, mentoring, Proverbs 15:1, Proverbs 15:18; Proverbs 21:23, public, radar, saving face, target, throw, timing, toss, Trust

December 21, 2009

The Legend of the Candy Cane (GAME)

Time 15-20 minutes (or more, depending upon how many times you play) Audience Children & Youth Description This matching game is a fun one to play at Christmas. It takes the elements of “The Legend of the Candy Cane” (apocryphal) … Continue reading →

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Filed under Christianity, Christmas, Game, Games that Teach, Hands-on, Jesus

Tagged as * Exodus 12:22-23 * Psalm 51:7 * Isaiah 53:5 * Matthew 1:23, 2 Corinthians 5:21, 26:28 * John 10:11 * Romans 6:4, 5:12, 9:33 * 2 Corinthians 5:21, blood of Christ, born of a virgin, by His stripes we are healed, candy cane, candy maker, Christianity, Christmas, concentration, Exodus 12:22-23, fun, Game, Games that Teach, glory, hard, Heaven, holiday, hyssop, Indiana, Isaiah 53:5, J-shaped, Jesus Christ, John 10:11, legend, matching, Matthew 1:23, Matthew 26:28, Matthew 5:12, memory, metaphor, new life, party, peppermint, Psalm 51:7, red, Romans 6:4, Romans 9:33, season, sets, Shepherd's crook, Shepherd's staff, sinless, stripes, sweet, symbols, The Rock, wash me clean, white, Witness, Xmas

December 7, 2009

Christmas Story Bingo (GAME)

Time 30 minutes Description This game teaches the Christmas story through the game of Bingo. Scriptures Matthew 1:18-25, 2:1-23 Luke 1:5-67, 2:1-20 Materials Copies of the eight different bingo cards (See the filed called, “Christmas Story Bingo Cards” on the … Continue reading →

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Filed under Angels, Christianity, Christmas, Game, Games that Teach, Jesus, John the Baptist, Joseph, Mary

Tagged as adults, angel, Archelaus, baby, Bethlehem, bingo, Caesar Augustus, census, children, Christian, Christmas story, dreams, dumb, Egypt, Elizabeth, frankincense, fun, G.R.A.C.E., Gabriel, Galilea, Game, Games that Teach, God with us, God's Riches At Christ's Expense, gold, grace, holiday, Holy Spirit, Immanuel, Jesus, John the Baptist, Joseph, kids, King Herod, Luke 1:5-67, Luke 2:1-20, manger, Mary, Matthew 1:18-25, Matthew 2:1-23, miracle, mute, myrrh, nativity, Nazareth, no room in the inn, Quirinius, teenagers, The Message, virgin birth, Wise Men, Xmas, Zachariah

October 29, 2009

Resurrection Roll (GAME)

Time 10-15 minutes (or more, depending upon how many times you play) Audience Children & Youth Description This game is a fun and high-energy way to celebrate the resurrection of Christ. It’s played in rounds, and an individual round takes … Continue reading →

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Filed under Christianity, Easter, Game, Games that Teach, Jesus, Resurrection

Tagged as cave, children, Christ, cross, dead, death, despair, devil, discouragement, Easter, Friday, Game, Games that Teach, grave, Hope, Jesus, John the Beloved, Joseph of Arimethea, joy, Lamb of God, Mary Magdelene, Matthew 28:1-10, Messiah, mourning, Nicodemus, Resurrection, Satan, Son of God, Sunday, tomb, victory, youth

October 15, 2009

Cultural Continuums (GAME)

Time 40-60 minutes (or more, depending upon how many cultural dimensions you choose to use) Audience Teens or adults who interact with people of different cultures or are planning to do so Description This game illustrates the differences between the … Continue reading →

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Tagged as achieved, achievement, adults, ascribed, attitude toward uncertainty, attitude toward work, Charles Hampden-Turner, clearlycultural.com, collectivism, concept of self, concept of time, continuum, country flags, Craig Storti, cultural, cultural dimensions, culture, degree of directness, differences, dimensions, direct, diversity, external, feminine values, Figuring Foreigners Out, Fons Trompenaars, fortune, Game, Games that Teach, Geert Hofstede, gender dominance, Genesis 11:1-9, harmony, high context, importance of face, indirect, individualism, internal, key to productivity, locus of control, logic of the head, logic of the heart, Long-term orientation, losing face, low context, luck, masculine values, missionaries, missionary trips, monochronic, objective, particularism, personal accountability, polychronic, positive, power distance, powerful me, powerful others, quality of life, research, results, Riding the Waves of Culture, role of context, saving face, short-term, showing emotions, skeptical, societal accountability, source of status, studies, subjective, teenagers, teens, Tower of Bable, universalism

Tag Archives: Games that Teach

Finding Measures (GAME)

Negotiation Game (GAME)

High-Performing Numbers Game (GAME)

StrengthsFinder Theme Sorting (GAME)

Under the Radar (GAME)

The Legend of the Candy Cane (GAME)

Christmas Story Bingo (GAME)

Resurrection Roll (GAME)

Cultural Continuums (GAME)

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