Friday, September 21, 2012

The Marshmallow Challenge

The marshmallow challenge is a great icebreaker for the first day of school to get those creative juices flowing, or an exciting way to encourage your students to think about what it takes to be successful when working in a group!

The challenge: Teams of four have 18 minutes to build the tallest free standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The marshmallow has to be on top!!!!




The extraordinary lesson that students will take away from this unique challenge is,  if you bring your best thinking, feeling, and doing to the task at hand you are demanding success!

If you want to conduct the marshmallow challenge in your classroom visit marshmallowchallenge.com for complete instructions.