Friday, March 5, 2010
MOUSE TRAPS! OUCH!
Give us your view of the activity today. Let us know how trust had anything to do with this activity today? How did your perception change about the activity, your group and yourself, from the beggining of the period until the end? Finally what does this have do with climbing and working with others?
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i first was scared to put my hand on the trap, but after the group members tried it, i knew that it was saft to do. Also i trusted them when they said it didn't hurt. so after i tried several times, it was not scared at all. I think it is important to trust each other while climbing because it it a way to climb safely and successfully.
ReplyDeleteI had to trust my group to tell me when to put my hand down on the trap. My perception didn't really change because I found out that the traps hurt a lot. I liked the relay we did because our group got a chance to work together to solve a problem creatively, which we could apply to climbing.
ReplyDeleteAt first, I had no idea what we could possibly be doing with mouse traps. Once we had to start putting our hands over the trap & releasing it, I started to see how we were team-building. We had to be supportive of our group & when it came time to listen to a partner telling you when to put your hand down, we had to trust them. This can relate to climbing because we have to listen to our group when they try to help us get up the wall. We also have to encourage eachother to go out of our comfort zones in order to complete our goals.
ReplyDeleteIt was really scary to do at first, but when I saw my group member putting the hand on the trap, I kinda calmed myself down to put my hand on the trap. I think that we have to trust each other to succeed.
ReplyDeleteNot a fan of getting hurt, no matter how safe it seems. However, after it seemed safe I tried setting it off, and it wasn't bad. As for it's relation to climbing, everyone has their own level of comfort with doing something. Meaning they have probably more trouble with doing the more difficult and hazardous things without any help.
ReplyDeletei hate mouse traps. it was the most scariest thing i have ever done. my hands were shaking and my hands were very sweaty. when i saw others doing this, i wanted to try as well. it wasn't that bad. i think this helps us to climb and trust others because were know that mouse traps are painful and that when we're climbing, we could fall. but, we trust eachother to not fall and to not let the mouse trap go off on our hands.
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I love the activity. It was fun to see my mood change form interested to boredom. I think that the activity was revealing to how rock climbing would be. if we fall then we would have a chance of getting hurt. The mouse trap hurt us. When we fall we can get hurt, and also the rest of your groups.
ReplyDeleteI feel the only place you had to trust someone was when you had to close your eyes and have a partner guide your hand onto the mousetrap. My perceptions didn't change. Mouse traps can hurt but they aren't going to kill you. How it relates to climbing I guess is you just have to be careful and nothing will go wrong. If you handle a mouse trap carefully, it won't go off and snap on you. If you are careful about the set up and climb when climbing, nothing horrible will go wrong.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest I wasn't nervous at all to do this activity (unlike climbing). I completely trusted my group and we did a pretty good job in the relay. I guess this is simliar to rock climbing in that everyone in the group plays an important role to succeed.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't here on friday, but from what the other people said, supposedly a mouse trap was involved that related climbing. Hands and mouse traps seem quite scary though. Hmmhm, relays and mouse traps and hurt hands.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good activity because you learn thy thugs aren't always as bad as they seem
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I think this activity was really fun and I definitely wasn't scared to trap my fingers in the mouse trap. It relates to climbing because not only did you have to trust yourself, but trust the object you were holding onto as well as the others in your group.
ReplyDeleteI wasnt here and I couldnt participate in this activity. But, from what I read, I think that if i had to do this activity, I wouldnt be too scared because I trust all my classmates. I think this has to do with climbing, because when climbing you have to trust your group. (:
ReplyDeleteLike what many others said, this activity came back to climbing because I had to trust that my group members were going to guide me through the timing for setting my hand on the trap. Another equally important lesson is that mouse traps can break pen caps haha!!
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I definitely was scared of the mousetraps at first, but after i had played with it for alittle bit I wasn't as nervous. I already trusted my group when we did the hand thing though, but it probably helps that i had already snapped my thumb in the trap. I think that reakizing that even though mouse traps are dangerous and sometimes scary it helped that after a while i was ok with that was a lot like what's happeneing with climbing, even though it's scary at first, after you fall a couple of times it isn't as big of a deal.
ReplyDeleteI found out that when the mouse traps snapped, they sounded a lot worse than they actually were. Like climbing, the mouse traps could be dangerous unless you were careful when you used them. We learned that our fear of climbing comes from our personal fears, not that we're scared of the actual climbing part.
ReplyDeleteIn the activity, we had to trust ourselves as well as our group members that we wouldn't get hurt. At the beginning of the activity,I was scared to even touch the mouse traps, but by the end I was carrying two mouse traps in one hand. This relates to climbing because we learned that sometimes our fears about certain things are unnecessary, and that sometimes the biggest obstacle to overcome is ourselves. Also, it taught us that no matter how scared we feel, we have a group to support us.
ReplyDeleteAt first i was like nooo way am i touching a mousetrap... but then as i started to relax and one actually did snap on my finger it wasn't as bad as i though it would be. It shows us that we need to be careful and pay attention to what we're doing, especially when climbing.. also it should teach some people to be less scared to try things in gym
ReplyDeletesome people thought it was stupid, but I loved this activity. I talked to H after class and I realized it showed us that, this class isn't dangerous as long as we make it not dangerous. We have to learn to trust others not to get hurt, and it can be fun even though we are taking risks
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