UNIV 100: Time Management: Priorities
Objective:
 To explain the importance of prioritizing in order to fit all tasks in.
Materials:
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Two medium sized clear bowls
Water
Large sized rocks
Medium sized rocks
Small rocks
Sand
Lesson:
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Put the bowl on a table in front of the class, hide the rest of your materials
Fill it with the largest rocks you have and ask the class if it is full
You want them to say yes, and then say well what if I add these? Add medium
sized rocks to the spaces between the big rocks
Ask them if it is full again, and then repeat by adding small rocks, then the sand,
then the water.
Take out your other bowl and fill it with water. Ask them if it is full and then try
to add a little sand or small rocks. Demonstrate that they simply wont fit in or else
it will spill.
Debrief:
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Have students make a list of their priorities.
The large rocks represent your highest priorities (Work, school, projects etc.)
The smaller the rocks get, the lower the priority. (Eating > Partying, Family >
friends, etc.)
The water and sand are little pleasures, etc. that you can fit in if you get all your
other stuff done.
If you put the little stuff first, you’ll never be able to get all of your goals
accomplished.