Communication+Elements

=**Communication Elements/Skills Activity**=

It is extremely important for students to work on the basic understanding of communications and how communications work in school to be able to function well in the 21st century. As a teacher, no matter what grade, you should teach your students about the following elements of communications:
 * Encoding: is when someone either looks at or listens to the message and putts it into a verbal description.
 * Transmitting: someone takes the verbal message and delivers it to the receiver.
 * Receiving: Receives the message from the transmitter and passes it to the decoder.
 * Decoding: converts the transmitted message from the receiver and tries to understand the message.

Lesson to teach communication skills
The objective of this lesson is for students (in groups of 4) to be the first to create and solve an assigned puzzle given by teachers.
 * students get into groups of 4
 * each student must pick a role of either encoder, transmitter, receiver, or decoder
 * The encoder looks at the figure constructed by the teacher and explains how it looks to the transmitter
 * The transmitter takes the message and delivers it to the receiver verbally (no drawings or written material allowed)
 * The receiver passes the message to the decoder whom tries to construct the structure.
 * The teacher tells the student yes if its right or no if its not. If not correct the students try again

Example of Lego construction for teacher to build