The Marshmallow Challenge

The Marshmallow Challenge was a great team building activity for the first day.  Teams had to work together to build the tallest free standing structure out of spaghetti sticks, tape, and string.  Two towers stood and two towers fell when time was up, but students had fun working together and summarized the importance of teamwork at the following website:

http://www.todaysmeet.com/5P

 Here are the big ideas. . .

1.  All team members are responsible for the work
2.  Help each other--we have a common goal
3.  COMMUNICATE!
4.  Two heads are better than one
5.  A task can take less time when there are more people tackling it