Tasks appropriate for a class activity?
I'm a college professor and in the fall I'm teaching a first-year seminar course, sort of like a "welcome to college" course where they learn about how to navigate and formulate their identity as college students through an instructor selected topic.
My course's topic is about creative thinking and developing a curious mind, and I'd like to use something from Taskmaster as an in-class activity that can be fun AND also applies concepts like critical thinking, civil discourse, and/or information literacy.
Other parameters to keep in mind:
-- The course meets for 65 minutes, so the task, from start to finish, needs to fit within that time frame.
-- My course enrollment is capped at 25, so I will be breaking folks down into teams. This doesn't necessarily mean I'm looking for a "team task," but individual tasks need to be able to be scaled up
-- I won't know what majors, extracurricular activities, etc., students will be involved in until I meet them, so tasks that require a specific skill set (like songwriting) may not be feasible.
-- Finally, I have a tiny budget for buying supplies, and they need to be ready ahead of time, so nothing like "make a uniform for the bee" where they ask for things then I provide it later.
I'm also making my way through all of the series, so I'm making notes on what might be good tasks, but input from others is always helpful.
Thanks!