This document outlines three projects focused on developing critical thinking skills. Project 1 involves conceiving, documenting, and pitching a project to address an identified problem in three lessons. Project 2 focuses on implementing the project, assessing personality types, and managing teams. Project 3 teaches critical thinking techniques like defining problems, considering past efforts, and using tools like the 5 Whys. The document provides detailed activities and instructions to guide participants through each step of the three projects.

1. PROJECT 1: Project
Conception, Documentation
and Pitching
PROJECT 2-Project Implementation,
Personality Tests and Team
Management & Dynamics
Project 3: Critical thinking
Lets get started

2. PROJECT 1: Project Conception,
Documentation and Pitching
▪ This project cuts across three lessons, lesson one(1) being to identifying a
problem, outline the causes and the effects of this problem. You will then propose
solutions and describe a world free of the problem.
The values and principles to be upheld and promoted here will be teamwork, collaboration,
sacrifice, hard work, inclusion, diversity, leadership and helping and serving others.
▪ Lesson two(2) is dedicated to helping students document all the work that was
done in lesson one.
The values and principles to be upheld and promoted include; The value of history, The
importance of documentation, Other forms of presentation such as infographics, videos and
cartooning
▪ Lesson three(3) is dedicated to pitch rehearsals. Participants watch standard and
world class pitch presentations.
The values of this lesson The importance of communicating, and Presentation tips.

3. Lesson 1
This lesson is divided in into
six(6) sub sections which are:
❖ Problem identification
❖ Causes of the problem
❖ Effects of the problem
❖ Solution to the problem
❖ Activities to realize solution
❖ A better world
Project Conception
Project conception is the
first step in the process of
specifying the actual scope
of a project.

4. Section 1: Problem
identification
Identifying a problem shouldn’t be
difficult. The hard part is accepting
that you have a problem and do
everything you can to find a solution
to that problem.
Activity 1
1. Share their passion.
2. Share points of frustration
or problems that they find
in the community.
3. Write 5 issues that they
find disturbing in the
community.
4. Choose a primary issue
(problem) to focus on for
the project.

5. Section 2: Causes
of the Problem
Activity 2
Referring to exercise 4 in section
1, try to,
Identify causes of the
problem
Attach weights(set priorities)
to the causes of the problem

6. Section 3: Effects of
the Problem
Again, lets go back to our problem at
hand, problem we laid out in exercise
1 question 4
Activity 3
Highlight the issues(consequences)
that will arise if the problem
identified is not addressed
Name consequences arising from
the existence of the identified
problem
Check and include credible
statistics and reports on the effects
of this problem

7. Section 4: Solution(s)
to the Problem
Activity 4
Articulate a solution to the
problem that has been
identified.

8. Section 5: Activities to
realize the solution(s)
to the problem
Activity 5
List activities that will be
needed to help you realize the
solution(s) which you stated in
activity 4
All activities required to realize
the solution should be listed For
example; visit schools during
world sanitation week, create
sanitation clubs in schools,
organize annual conferences on
waste disposal.

9. Section 6: A Better
World
Activity 6
Describe the world that they
visualize(see) when the
problem in activity 1 is solved
eg, In a better world, the
street of Molyko will have no
floating plastics, no piles of
dirt etc.

10. Lesson 2
Recap of lesson 1, Project
conception
Activity 7
In this lesson, participants will
Type in all work into a word
document in a typical report
format
Make a PowerPoint presentation
of the report work.
Project documentation

11. Presentation & Pitching
Activity 8
Participants watch
standard and world class
pitch presentations.
This lesson is dedicated to
pitch rehearsals.
Lesson 3:

12. End of project 1

13. PROJECT 2-Project Implementation,
Personality Tests and Team Management &
Dynamics
•This lesson aims at ensuring that the program participants to think
through the requirements of their project and what will be needed to
realize the projects. These include resources in the form of funds,
people, institutions and skills.
•The realization of most sustainable projects require presence of a
team. Managing teams and team dynamics is what this lesson seeks
to help participants with.
•This project is sub-divided into 3 sections as follows:
❖ Lesson 1: Project Implementation,
❖ Lesson 2: Personality Tests,
❖ Lesson 3: Team Management.

14. Lesson 1
Project implementation is the phase
where dreams and plans become reality
In this lesson, participants will
implement project 1. Thanks to lesson 2
in project 1 we documented our work
This lesson is sub-divided into four(4)
sections
❖ Estimates and visualization
❖ Stakeholder engagement
❖ The team and skills
❖ Risks and opportunities
Project Implementation

15. Section 1: Estimates
and visualization
Activity 1
a. What areas in the world, your
country or your community are
affected by the problem? Or
b. What groups of people need your
solution?
c. How long will you need to complete
your project?
d. How much money will you need for
your project? And what will you
need the money for?’
e. Where can you get money for your
projects

16. Section 2: Stakeholder
engagement
Stakeholders are people, businesses,
organization’s that you need to support you on
the project
Critical stakeholders are People, businesses,
organization's whose support means life and
sustainability for your project
Stakeholder engagement is the process used by
an organization to engage relevant stakeholders
for a purpose to achieve accepted outcomes
Activity 2
a. Do you have access? Do you have links to
these stakeholders? If yes list them.
b. Otherwise, how do you plan to access the
stakeholders?
c. How will you manage the situation of a
critical stakeholder who refuses to work with
you?

17. Section 3: The team
and skills
A team is a group of individuals.
A skill is the ability to carry out a task with
determined results often within a given
amount of time, energy or both.
Activity 3
a. Do you need a team? If yes why ,if no
why?
b. What skills do you need on your team?
c. Who else will you need on your team?
d. What do you think is the major reason
for forming a team?

18. Section 4: Risks
and opportunities
Risk is a situation involving exposure to
danger.
Opportunity is a time or set of
circumstances that makes it possible to
do something.
Activity 4
What can cause your project to stop or
die.
How will you overcome these dangers?
How will you grow your project into
other regions? To reach more people?
From your own point of view, what do
you think is The Power of team work?

19. Personality Tests
Personality test is a method of assessing
human personality constructs.
Activity 5
a. Guide participants to take personality
test via the link below
b. https://www.16personalities.com/free-p
ersonality-test
c. Help participants to share their results
d. Explain what the result means and what
it does not mean
e. Encourage kids to find ways to grow their
talents
Lesson 2

20. Team Management
Team management is the ability of an
individual or an organization to
administer and coordinate a group of
individuals to perform a task.
Activity 6
a. Team builder exercise
b. Identify strength
c. Identify weakness
d. Series of scenarios asking for
leadership examples
Lesson 3

21. End of project 2

22. Project 3: Critical thinking

23. Critical thinking
Critical thinking is the ability
to think reflectively and
independently in order to
make thoughtful decisions.

24. Steps to critical thinking
Define the problem
statement
Divide and conquer
Ask focusing questions
Think
Consider past efforts
Use the most effective tool,
the 5 why’s
Use the 80/20 rule

25. Define the problem
statement
Define the problem statement
the problem statement should
define
success criteria,
time frame,
People involved, and
Boundaries.

26. Divide and Conquer
One of the first steps in any
good critical thinking process
is taking a very big problem
and breaking it down to
smaller ones that you can
actually solve.

27. Ask focusing questions
Ask focusing questions like,
What’s the real question?
What is the root cause?
Who is involved in the
decision?
Who can support it?
Who can derail it?
Articulate how you are going to
measure success(qualitatively or
quantitatively)
Ask the question behind the
question. Ask yourself why you
are being asked this question in the
first place

28. Think
Think backwards to
identify causes,
Think forward to
identify consequences

29. Consider past efforts
Another element of critical thinking
that goes into defining your problem is
considering past efforts.
Ask yourself has this problem been
considered in the past?
what did we learn?
What’s different now versus the last
time the problem was looked at?
Who was involved in the problem
solving last time?
By learning from experience we’re
going to prevent wasted efforts

30. Use the most effective
tool, the 5 why’s
One of the most effective
critical thinking tools is the
five why’s. we need to ask
why and really understand
cause. This can be annoying
but by the time you ask the
fourth or fifth why that’s
where the real insight is

31. Use the 80/20 rule
Use the 80/20 rule to think
critically.
The 80/20 rule is also known
as Pareto principle.
By applying the rule, 20% of
drivers will drive 80% of the
result that’s the 80/20 rule.

32. PROJECT 3 – Lesson 2:
The 4 Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word
Speak with integrity
Say only what you mean
2. Don’t take anything personally
Nothing other do bothers you
What others say is a projection of their
own reality
3. Don’t make assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions
With this agreement, you can transform a
situation
4. Always do your best
Do not make yourself a slave to anybody’s
expectations
Communicate your thoughts

33. The End
Thank You

34. LESSON FOR LEVEL 1
Done BY
DURRELL GEMUH ABWOENGMO
www.facebook.com/ict4kidsBuea
ict4kids@ngtltd.com /
durrellgemuh07@gmail.com
Buea, Cameroon
(+237) 671 30 58 65