Friday, 7th November 2014, "Games"

We usually have Microbiology class on Tuesday and Friday but since Dr Wan was not available on Tuesday (4th November 2014). The class for that day was cancelled. And to replace the Tuesday class, we had a four hour long class on Friday. However, something came up and Dr Wan was not able to teach us for the first two hour and left us in the care of her Master students because she had to do a presentation that morning.

Before she left us for the presentation, she assigned us an activity for us to complete while she was away and by 10am (The estimated time that she will come back) we should have finished our preparation for the acitivity. The activity was on the current topic -->> EUKARYOTES! There are 10 groups and she made folded papers and in the papers were written with number 1 until 10 and each group representative had to pick a paper in order to know what number we got. The numbers actually meant something. Each number was assigned to an organelle in eukaryotes. My group got the number 10 which was the last group to present. 

The organelle that was assigned to Number 10 is "Mitochondria". 

Next, Dr Wan explained further that we had to prepare a game based on the organelle that we were assigned. That was the exciting part! Games! :D 

My group had decided to do a game titled "Quiz Oh Quiz!". Just like the name, it was a game focusing on quizzes which mean there will be questions and they have to raise their hands to answer it. However, instead of having 10 groups to answer the questions. We divided our classmates to two big groups, A and B. For each questions that they answered, marks will be given --> contributing points to the group that they are representing. When the game ends, one person from the winning group can pick a person from the losing group to flick his/her forehead as a punishment.

Well, that was what we were planning to do at first. However, at the end of the game there was no any "flicking-forehead" happening because Choy (from the winning group) said something like "poor them". Hahaa. And also because since we were the last group, everybody was eager to go home and the punishment was long forgotten and forgiven~~

And here is the names of the games that we had prepared for each organelle :D 

1- Poison Box (Flagella, cilia and cytoplasm) 

2- Role Play (Cell Membrane) 

3- Spin Your Ribosome (Ribosome)

4- Dart Quizzes (Nucleus)

5- Jump Lysosome Jump (Lysosome)

6- Bingo (Vacuole)

7- Lucky Bottle (Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum)

8- Wheel Decide (Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum) 

9- Golgi Penalty (Golgi Apparatus)

10- Quiz Oh  Quiz! (Mitochondria) 

In my opinion, everybody did a very good job in preparing the game and also creative in their own way. It was a fun activity indeed~! Although we are playing "games" but we were also learning something during the whole class which was about Eukaryotes. We needed to think of the answers carefully. Testing our knowledge. Since we cannot refer to any notes during the game. If we got it right, we will remember the answer. But if we got it wrong, and got corrected by the presenting group (after they punished the group that answered wrongly, of course..) I'm sure that we/they (the "answered-wrongly-group") will remember the answer even more. Haha!

I think this week's activity goes well with the idiom "All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy". Hence, the games really lighten us up~~~ :D