Egg protector baby

    we had very interesting ppd session on last week, 07th of November. It was very good team work which conducted by Sarasi Madam. It was based on an egg. Firstly, she devided us to three groups. I belonged to first group. There were five members in our group. Sithara, yasiru, Karshan, Tedy and me were in our group. What we had to do is protect our egg without any cracking when it throws from a height such as ten feets. madam gave an egg and and five papers for each group and told us to do something creatively to protect our egg.
    As a team firstly we discussed our ideas with each other to do that task creatively and scientifically. We started our work with thinking about pressure when the egg falls on the floor. So we firstly covered the egg with selotape.

    Then we took a piece of paper and and rolled the paper like a cylinder around the egg. Next we filled that cylinder by chipped piece of papers.

    It reduces the pressure of egg on top and the bottom. Then we thought about reducing the pressure around the egg. For that we used some rolled papers as sticks. We pasted those sticks around the cylinder with a proper plan.

Finally, we made a creative one like this covering the egg.

    Then all of us went to outside and one of us threw the covered eggs from a height of ten feets.

Our egg was the only egg which was on the floor without any cracking.

So we were the wining team, because we had clear idea from the beginning of this task and our team members worked cooperatively with each other.

Another Two Interesting Games

In every week, we had very interesting team works in our PPD sessions last week on 25th of October, we had two games. They are standing on the paper and lava river.

At the first game, standing on the paper, we had to stand on the piece of paper which Sarasi madam gave us as a team. She divided us to three teams. In this game feet of all the members should be on the paper. Firstly all the teams could do it easily. Then Sarasi madam told us to fold the paper and stand on it. It was rather difficult than the first round. Then she again told us to fold the paper another term and stand on it. It was very difficult for us. No one could win the third round. But it was very interesting game.

Then we had lava river game. Sarasi madam gave 4 cards for each team and mark the banks of the river on the floor. In the first round we had to cross the river one by one or together. But one team couldn't cross the river since they lost all four cards. In the second round again we had to cross the lava river and go to the other bank.

     All the three teams could go the other bank in second round. Then, in the third round, Sarasi madam marked some places with a cross inside the lava river. In this round we had to go the other bank of lava river together with all team members. If we reached the cross marks which madam marks before, we could get marks. It was very interesting game as well. With these two games we could learn how to work as a team. After the games Sarasi madam explained us how to win the challenges as teams and it was very important explanation for us.

University of Kelaniya

      The university of Kelaniya is the one of state university of Sri Lanka. At present, the university of Kelaniya consists of 7 faculties. They are Humanities, Social sciences, Science, Medicine, Commerce & management studies, Graduate studies and Computing & Technology. There are 50 academic departments. The university of Kelaniya recently entered the annals of history as the first green university in Sri Lanka.
       The faculty of science of the university of Kelaniya consist of eight departments. They are Botany, Chemistry, Industrial Management, Mathematics, Microbiology, Physics, Statistics & Computer science and Zoology & Environmental management.

   

      The Student Welfare Division is another important place in the university. There are many services provided by the student welfare division for the students.

      As well as the library is very important to us for our studies. There are huge book collection in our library.

       The faculty of humanities comprises nine departments and the English Language Teaching Unit(ELTU). The faculty of humanities takes the lead in language, cultural, religious and aesthetic studies among the universities in Sri Lanka.

       The faculty of Social Sciences consists of nine departments of study.

       As students we are very lucky to be an undergraduate of the University of Kelaniya.

What I learnt from PPD?

PPD is process designed to enable us to think about, and plan for, our own personal, academic and career development.

Through the 1st semester of our 1st year we could face lot of activities to recognize the skills and abilities we have and improve those skills and abilities.

At kelaniya Temple with my group members

At the very 1st day of our PPD session, we had to introduce ourselves to the class. It is the first presentation of ours. There after, through our PPD sessions we had so many activities. Most of them are team works. We could learn lot of things from our PPD sessions. Such as, work as a team member, making decisions as a team with the participation of all members. And it was an enjoyable time for us during our PPD lecture.

As team activities, we had to make a paper tower as I described in my previous article. It was a nice teamwork. Then, we had another teamwork related to the culture. We had to create our own culture and present it to the class. It was an amazing activity. We created our own cultures. It taught us, how to think creatively as a team. In this activity we had to take ideas from all the members ans combine it together to get the best creation.

What we learnt from this activity is thinking creatively and making good decisions as a team.

At very last day of our PPD sessions, Miss Sarasi conducted us about achieving our life goals. Which belongs to our personal, academic and professional lives. It was very significant for us and thinking about future goals.

Such that we could learn much good things in our PPD sessions.

Paper Tower

 Do you know? The experience of working as a team is a worthy opportunity for both of our academic and professional lives. We can improve some soft skills of ours by working as a team.

Communicate with each other

I think "The Paper Tower" activity is a great example for working as a team, which conducted by Miss Sarasi in our ppd sessions on 10th Monday July. But unfortunately I missed the activity in that day. I'm so regret about missing this opportunity.

As my friends told me, there were 3 groups to make 3 paper towers severally. And Miss sarasi gave them 12 A4 sheets, a scissor and a sellotape for each team. They had to make a paper tower using those materials.

They had to consider about both of the height and the creativity of the paper tower. Its base should be strong. Firstly, each team had to discuss with all the members, how to build the paper tower strongly.

It was a great challenge for all the three groups. Though all the teams could make the paper towers within 40 minutes. They were different by height. As I knew, this activity was helpful for improving our soft skills such as, how to work as a member of a team and how to get right decisions con-sensually as a team.

Team with their Towers

Success

What is PPD?

Personal Progress Development is a process designed to enable us to think about, and plan for our own. Personal, academic and career development.

As university students, throughout our degree we will be encouraged by PPD to reflect on our progress and achievements and to identify areas we wish to develop and improve on.

PPD helps us to recognize the skills and abilities we are developing during our studies and to recognize how these skills and abilities are transferable to other contexts.

Also it helps us to identify areas we want and need to improve and develop and improve our employability and plan for our future career.

At very first day of our PPD session, we had to present ourselves in the presence of class for 2 minutes. It was a good opportunity to all of us to recognize our presentation ability. Some of us, including me couldn't use all the 2 minutes. And we could realize our status of presenting. It was very good occasions for us to start improving our soft skills.

Then we had a lot of team works our PPD sessions. They were very useful for us to improve a lot of good qualities of ours. Such as the way of thinking as a team member, how to get instant decisions as a team and how work as a team as well.

I'll explain some of activities in my next articles.

Paper Tower