What makes a

problem big or small?

How Do We Know?
  Hurts 10 or more people
 Results in physical injury or
death

BIG  Takes 10 or more people to

solve
PROBLEM  Takes weeks or months to
solve
Big Problems
Medium
Problem
 Small physical injury or very upset feelings
 Affects 3-9 people
 Takes 3-6 people to solve
 Takes 15 minutes to an hour to solve
Medium Problems
 Tiny
Problem  Affects 1-2 people
 Only small upset feelings involved
 Kids can solve by themselves or ignore the
problem
 Takes less than 15 minutes to solve
Tiny Problem
How Can We
Measure?

We use a scale! 1 3 5
Tiny problem Medium problem Big
problem
 Your Turn to Each card has a problem and how a
Practice! person responded to that problem.
If the size of the response matches the
size of the problem (BIG reaction for a BIG
problem), put the card in the “appropriate”
group
If the size doesn’t match (BIG reaction for
tiny problem), put it in the “not appropriate”
group

WHEN DONE: go through the responses you deemed

inappropriate and think of an appropriate response
 tiny Medium BIG
Problem Problem Problem

 Only small upset feelings  Small physical injury or very  Hurts 10 or more people
involved upset feelings  Results in physical injury or
 Kids can solve by  Affects 3-9 people death
themselves or ignore the  Takes 3-6 people to solve  Takes 10 or more people to
problem
solve
 Takes 15 minutes to an hour
 Takes less than 15 minutes to solve  Takes weeks or months to
to solve