Developing the Descriptively Verbal Skills of Undergraduate Engineering Student by Playing a LEGO Block Building

Due to the observation of undergraduate engineering students, we have seen some problems in their information communication. This is not an issue of language, but the point is a lack of descriptive story. The audience (information receiver) cannot build the objects or somethings corresponding to the sender's verbal and sometimes it leads to misleading. In this paper, game-based learning using LEGO block building is applied to improve the descriptively verbal skill. The special model, such as a half bird-half dinosaur creature or something that is not a general object, is used as the prototype model. All members of each team cannot see this model except the team leader which will describe the model information to two sub-leaders one by one. The model information will be divided into two parts for each sub-leader which will carry this information to the members of each subgroup. Finally, the finished 3D figure from all teams will be compared with the prototype model. Results show that most of them quite similar to the prototype. However, allowing the opportunity to talk with the team leader again can increase the similarity of the model. This activity can be done in 2-3 hours with 5-10 persons per team.