Guess  a  sentence   rules:
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Your  group  will  be  given  a  sentence  of  four  to  six  words  with  each  of  the  letters  (including   spaces)  as  unknowns.
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Your  job  is  to  guess  the  sentence  exactly  by  asking  yes/no  questions  only.
examples
'is  this  letter  a  b?'
'does  it  come  before  m  in  the  alphabet?'
Scoreing/Reflection
You  were  each  given  a  different  sentence   did  they  each  contain  the  same  amount  of  information  ?
Why  did  one  have  more  information  than  another?
Backgrond:  This  game  is  designed  to  encourage  students  to  reflect  upon  how  information  can  be
transmitted  when  certain  rules  or  restrictions  are  applied  by  the  transmission  channel.
Materials  needed:
1  chair  per  team
Blindfolds  for  the  robots  of  each  team
One  object  to  be  picked  up  by  the  robot  (preferably  light  weight)
Game  set  up:
• Align  the  chairs  in  the  front  of  the  classroom  and  designate  a  minimum  distance  where  the   navigators  will  stand  and  call  out  to  the  robots.
• Robots  should  all  be  blindfolded  outside  the  classroom  and  escorted  into  the  room  so  that  they   are  standing  behind  the  chair  at  the  beginning  of  the  first  round.
• Prepare  activity  cards  for  each  navigator  team.  There  will  be  two  activities:
• The  robot  must  be  instructed  to  simply  sit  down  in  the  chair  and  wait  for  the  next   activity
• The  robot  must  reach  beneath  the  chair  and  raise  the  object  that  is  there  above  their   heads.
• The  first  team  to  complete  the  tasks  is  the  winner.
A  non-­‐competitive  approach  may  be  to  make  the  goal  of  the  class  to  get  all  the  robots  to  accomplish   their  task  and  when  all  are  completed  the  reward  is  given.
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Rules
• One  student  is  given  a  copy  of  text
• That  student  must  re-­‐write  the  text  using  only  uppercase  letters  or  numbers  and  spaces
• The  goal  is  to  use  as  few  symbols  as  possible
• Once  completed  the  other  partner  must  reconstruct  the  message  losing  20  pts  for  each   incorrect  word.
the  score  is  1  pt  for  every  character  that  was  saved.
„ You  are  given  a  sentence  by  your  instructor  and  the  only  way  to  transmit  the  information  to   your  partner  is  by  knocking  on  the  door.
„ You  have  approximately  20  minutes  to  devise  a  scheme  for  your  transmission