Learning puzzle
Learning puzzle is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Explain the goal of the Learning Puzzle: for each participant to become an expert on their subtopic and share their knowledge with others.
- Emphasize the importance of each participant’s role in the group’s collective learning.
- Allow time for each team or individual to study their subtopic using the provided resources.
- Encourage participants to take notes and think about how they will present their part to the rest of the group.
- Help teams structure their presentation or activity to teach their subtopic.
- They can use tools like mind maps, charts, or practical examples.
- Each team or individual teaches their subtopic to the rest of the group in a clear and concise way.
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Prompts to use +
Explain the goal of the Learning Puzzle: for each participant to become an expert on their subtopic and share their knowledge with others.
Encourage participants to take notes and think about how they will present their part to the rest of the group.
They can use tools like mind maps, charts, or practical examples.
Run this with your AI assistant +
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Learning puzzle. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Explain the goal of the Learning Puzzle: for each participant to become an expert on their subtopic and share their knowledge with others.; Encourage participants to take notes and think about how they will present their part to the rest of the group.; They can use tools like mind maps, charts, or practical examples.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Participatory Methods; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Participatory Methods.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.