Life Skills & Leadership: Unit 4, Session 4: The Project Cycle | Page 54 of 91V. Assessment ( 10 minutes)
Materials:
Flip chart paper
Markers or crayons
A. Practical Advice
Participants review what they have learned about how to use the project cycle.
- Give instructions for a review of the project cycle. Say:
“You’ve learned about the project cycle and you’ve seen how the cycle can be upset by people’s
enthusiasm, time pressure, and other factors. I would like you to work with other members of your
team from the last activity, in which your project was to draw a boat, and think about what advice you
would give to someone who is about to begin a new project. Try to write at least one suggestion or
piece of practical advice for each step of the project cycle. You might begin each piece of advice with
‘Be sure to ...’ or ‘Remember to ...’ but write whatever you think will be helpful.”- Distribute flip chart paper and markers or crayons. Give teams about 5 minutes to write their advice.
- Give each team a chance to read its suggestions for the whole group. Follow each team’s advice with a
round of applause. Collect the advice each team has written on its flip chart for use in session 5, “Our
Project.” - Take down Flip chart 1: The Project Cycle and any other flip charts that have the steps of the Project
Cycle showing. Say:
“Now I’d like to see whether you can recall the five steps of the Project Cycle. I’ll point to a group, talk
to each other to make sure everyone in the group knows the answer, and when I count to three, as a
group shout out the name of the first step.”- Point to a group at random. Slowly count to three. Follow with a round of applause for the group’s
answer. - Repeat Step 5 four more times to give as many groups as possible a chance to say one of the five steps.
Note: Steps 4-6 of “Practical Advice” serve as an assessment of Learning Objective 1.B. Summary
Conclude by saying:
“We’ve seen that starting and running a project involves five steps: identifying, planning, doing,
reviewing, and celebrating. There are also some general questions you can ask and some activities that
people typically do during each step of the project cycle.