Martians at the Airport

Subgroup Size

Small Group

Duration

45 minutes

External Cost

No

Lesson Plan

Source

Activity adapted by Katherine Yngve, CILMAR, IDA+A, Purdue University, from the following:

 

Batchelder, D. (1993). Martian Anthropology Exercise. In T. Gochenour (Ed.), Beyond experience (2nd ed., pp. 143-147). Intercultural Press.

Tags:

  1. AAC&U Rubrics
  2. creativity
  3. cultural simulation
  4. ethnography
  5. frame shifting
  6. Hofstede
  7. openness
  8. other awareness
  9. teamwork

This creativity-training activity was designed for a Spring Break study abroad program at Purdue University titled Amsterdam: Creative Thinking & Innovation in Collaborative Leadership. Specifically, it was designed to help travelling students use their airport "down time" productively. 

The participant handout is uploaded as a Word document so that the facilitator can edit the document for their particular context.