Teaching Coworker: How long do you think my bowling activity should be? Two hours?
Me: First, you need to define the game’s parameters. How many students are coming? Are you planning to reserve lanes? With 10 students and two lanes, they will spend the majority of their time waiting for a turn, but if you have too many lanes, you’ll have smaller groups and you risk having mismatched skills, and anyway, what’s their familiarity with the rules? Did you allow sufficient time for explanation of the game? What about…
Coworker: Right, Meg. I’m gonna go with 2 hours.