Today, my classes completed the Cup Challenge! We loved it! The point of this was for students to practice their new lab team roles and develop some teamwork guidelines.
Each team gets 6 cups, string, and rubber bands. Using just string and rubber bands, students must make a pyramid with the cups. No touching the cups with hands!
We brainstormed teamwork guidelines with each class, then combined those into 4 main guidelines to follow.
We will communicate.
We will concentrate.
We will practice together.
We will listen.
6 thoughts on “Solo Cup Teamwork Challenge”
This looks like a great activity! Thanks for sharing!
Alison
Teaching Maths with Meaning
My kids loved this activity! I have 1 class that has not gotten to it yet, and they are so excited. I did not tie the strings to the rubber band, but made them figure that part out! It was great fun watching them!
I did this activity with the gifted teachers in my system during a back to school inservice. They loved it! They all did it with their students on the first day! BTW, I love your blog.
Susan
Keep ’em Thinking!
Do you have step by step instructions for what the students are suppose to do.
Thank you
Laura
Hi Laura,
Part of the challenge is for students to figure out how to solve the problem. Science Gal has great info here: http://sciencegal-sciencegal.blogspot.com/2012/09/setting-expectations-for-group-work.html
Ari 🙂
We played the game with the cups of course none of us got it because they were cheating but it’s hard and you have to really think and concentrate and have a steady hand to do it but it was fine thank you