CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR S.C. TEACHER CADET COURSE | EXPERIENCING EDUCATION, TENTH EDITION
Instructor’s Resource: Directions for Values Auction
2. Ask the students to look over the items to determine how much money they will
bid on the most desired items. Once the bidding begins, they do not have to stick
with the allotted amounts. Instruct the students to bid in $100.00 increments.
3. Students must assume they do not currently have any of the items, so if they want
the items, they must bid on them. If they bid on an item, but do not get it, they do
not lose the money they bid. If they receive the item, they must subtract the
amount they bid from the $1,000. Students are trusted to be honest.
4. After students have written in the amount budgeted for their bids on the “Bidder’s
Sheet for Values Auction” handout, start the auction. In random order, put the
items up for bid. For example, say, “Today we have Number 18—a long healthy
life—up on the auction block. Who will open the bidding at $100? Who will give
me $200? $300?” Encourage the players by saying prompts like “Going once,
going twice, sold to the lady on the front row.”
5. Proceed to “sell” all the items. Add in a “blue light special” in the middle of the
auction. It can be something special like a date with the man or woman of their
dreams.
6. The most important part of the auction is in the processing. Here are some
questions/comments you may want to ask:
(a) What values do the items represent? What are some things you learned about
yourself and your classmates through the choices you and they made?
(b) Did you stick with the amount you budgeted for each item, or did you stray from
the amount during the heat of the bidding?
(c) Were you tempted to bid on the “blue light special” even though you had not
budgeted for it? How do temptations sometimes lure us away from our set values?
(d) Tell the students that obviously you cannot give or sell them these items
(values), but ask them how they might obtain these items if they really want them.
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Theme I: Experiencing Learning
Unit 3: Growth and Development
1. Distribute the “Bidder’s Sheet for Values Auction” handout, and tell the students
that they have an imaginary $1,000 to spend at an auction.