The Marshmallow Challenge, a Great Team Building Exercise

I am on Spring Break this week and have been going through my Blog Post Drafts. I came across this empty post that was titled Day4- The Marshmallow Challenge. On the fourth day with my students this school year I did a team building exercise called "The Marshmallow Challenge" that I had read about on Twitter. I decided that this would be the perfect activity for team building as we transitioned to math workshop this year in our 7th grade math classes.

Somewhere I took photos of the students working, but I am on my second new iPhone since then and I must not have been using the cloud when I took them. I will have to ask my husband when he gets home from work today if he can locate those photos. August/September seems to be missing at the moment. If I locate the photos I will be sure to add them to this post.

I created this Google Presentation and we used the Workshop format of Opening, MiniLesson, Work Time, and Sharing/Reflection to have the students get used to the structure of what workshop looks like. The students absolutely loved it! I cannot even begin to explain how creative they were and how amazed I was how well they worked as teams on Day 4 of school. Students will still ask me when we can do something fun like The Marshmallow Challenge again.

I figured out how to embed my Google Presentation thanks to a nice tutorial video I found online. Here it is:




I hope this post is helpful to you. I cannot emphasize enough how well this activity worked with my students. They really worked on team building while completing one of their favorite activities of the year. Not a bad way to start the year. You could use this activity at any time. If you do please come back and comment on who it went. I would love to hear about your Marshmallow Challenge.