My Ever-Changing Mood
The aim is to explore students’ feelings towards challenges.
20 min
20-40 students 4-10 groups
A virtual witheboard/ Padlet and set of challenges
1. Each challenge gathered through the activities in the challenges elements should be presented one at a time to the students in Padlet/virtual whiteboard.
2. The students are asked to select a mood card from the list in Padlet that best highlights their mood towards a challenge.
3. The students write their reaction to each challenge – anonymously – on the shared whiteboard.
4. This process should be repeated with the remaining challenges.
5. A discussion then takes place to analyze the students’ responses to each challenge.
6. The students then select the challenge that they want to attempt.
A group consensus should emerge that will increase students’ motivation levels as the selected challenge will create a positive mood amongst the students. It should be stressed during the activity, that moods are ever-changing, and that the nature of the learning task can have a significant impact on one’s emotions at one time.
Inspired by: Andrea Harrn (2015) – The Mood Cards