Team building activities (hunger games) by Hal Ott https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw Made with ♥ en-us 2017-08-28 04:27:33 UTC 2025-10-19 12:54:17 UTC hello@padlet.com Boat Strategy Day 1 https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040044 The students are given items from the gym to use as "tools" or "equipment".  They using these items as a bridge that they have to walk across to get to the other side of the river.  Each time you get to the other side, you lose a piece of equipment.  The students have to decide which piece of equipment to lose.

The students should decide in advance what skills they have to contribute to the team.]]> 2017-08-28 04:56:52 UTC https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040044 Donuts! https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040143 Lets have donuts available the morning of the extra TOK session!

]]> 2017-08-28 04:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040143 Marshmallow Spaghetti Tower For: Creative Problem Solving & Collaboration ExerciseWhat You'll Need: 20 sticks of uncooked spaghetti, 1 roll of masking tape, 1 yard of string, and 1 marshmallow for every team. Instructions: Using just these supplies, which team can build the tallest tower https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040149 2017-08-28 04:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040149 Debrief: Students have to justify their choices when finished by explaining how and why they built what they did. They can also explain how they worked together to accomplish what they did. https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040282 2017-08-28 04:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040282 Boat Strategy Day 2 https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040444 Give the students a length of tape (maybe 3 meters) to use to create the boat on the floor.  They students have to figure out how to get all the students on the boat, if possible. Then later you have to shrink the boat and decide which student gets left behind and why.]]> 2017-08-28 05:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040444 Exercise Your Memory game: https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040486 Based on the old game show "Concentration", students do a group game with picture cards and they have to remember the order of the cards.   Each round adds more pictures to the list of items they have to remember.  
  ]]> 2017-08-28 05:02:21 UTC https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040486 -Images for group pairing (adaptive learning) https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040493 -"like me" looking for partner with same card
-survival skills
-inclusion activity]]> 2017-08-28 05:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040493 Reflection https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040593 2 pluses, 1 wish]]> 2017-08-28 05:04:01 UTC https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040593 What do you know? https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040849 What do you know about TOK, what do you want to know - use a softball to throw to each member and the person with the ball needs to make a comment]]> 2017-08-28 05:08:12 UTC https://padlet.com/h_ott/tpn6dadu5vvw/wish/183040849