They also gain insights into the basic advantages and disadvantages of each system. Overhead of the score board sheet. Each group should have a ball of string, a bead bowl, a scissors, a ruler, and six copies of one of the system's values and goals sheets. Three seven minute rounds will be played. The values and goals sheets are rotated from group to group after each round so every group can experience each system during the hour.
Groups are to follow whatever directions are on their values and goals sheet.
The teacher acts as the person to distribute the beads each round and as the quality control person. After each production round the group scores are posted on the score board. The winning group is the one that has the most dollars per person after the third round. One fifty minute period is required for the game. Another two or three periods are required for the debriefing, especially if the question about which system is best is pursued in any depth.