Are you tired of ho-hum co-op classes? Do you need a creative class? A challenging class? A class that teaches team work? This class does all three of those–it is one of my favorites!
Think! Team Building Challenge teaches kids to learn from failure, promotes creative thinking and problem solving, and helps them learn to work together.
This class was born out of my desire to do these creative-critical thinking projects with my son. I always struggled to find the time to work them into our homeschool schedule.
Each week students received a stack of supplies and one basic instruction such as construct a tall-as-possible tower. No instructions were given. My helper and I tried not to give much advice or ideas. The students built by our motto: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!
I'm not going to claim that this class was all gumdrops and rainbows. We had moments of failure; moments of frustration– red faces and even some tears. But we also had those tiptop mountain moments–the second of success after the struggle. Amazing.
We repeated our motto (or battle cry) at the beginning of every class. "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!"
You can download the syllabus and supply list here.
If you have to teach co-op next semester, and haven't chosen your class, seriously consider this one. It's brainy-building and fun!
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Ami, this class looks awesome! Thank you for sharing.
For the “supplies needed,” did you require each student to bring all of those to the first class? If you provided those for the class, how many students did you have? I’m about to teach a class of 16-18 kids.
I think I had about 10 students (our co-op had a cap of 10 per class). I provided the supplies; students paid a fee.
We are going to use this in our co-op this semester. We are excited. 🙂
I am so excited about this – thank you for sharing! As far as materials- the items listed are amounts needed for each group right? So for week 1 would you give each group of 2-4 1 box of spaghetti and 1 bag of marshmallows? Or did they even need that much? Sorry just trying to figure out how much to buy. 🙂
Could you tell me how long your class was? The weeks with two projects did you do both in the time period? Also materials listed are per group right? So you’d give a group of 2-3 1 box spaghetti and 1 bag marshmallows? Thank you for this! Excited to start my class Tuesday. 🙂