Building a Tower

Subgroup Size

Small Group

Duration

2 hours

External Cost

No

Lesson Plan

Source

Hapgood, K., & Fenes, H. (1996). Building a tower. In Intercultural learning in the classroom: Crossing borders (pp. 264-66). Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Tags:

  1. communication
  2. kinesthetic
  3. nonverbal communication
  4. teamwork

In her class on stage-based pedagogy at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication, Dr. Janet Bennett recommended this activity as good for those who are in the stage of Defense on the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS).