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Team Building

Team Building Exercises 

Team building exercises help all learners with communication, solving problems, listening, build self esteem, creative thinking, leadership, exchanging of ideas, and working with others and different groups. 

Short Reading (Working Together)
https://bkc.vmhost.psu.edu/documents/Activities1503.pdf

Week one of all students learning was based on relationship building and team building exercises to identify those who could work together, and those who need more support. 


 This newspaper challenged and encouraged students to collaborate with one another. i.e. creating a plan, listening to one another and how to bring it together as a team/group. This was a challenging activity for some. The video above shows a team who managed to work together to build a successful track and race it 20m on the basketball court.  




Another Team Building Exercise

Using Plastic Cups

This team building exercise didn't allow for students to use their body parts to stack their plastic cups in a pyramid formation. The only equipment given; x1 rubber band, x4 string and x6 plastic cups. Watch the video to see the outcome. Students then needed to unstack their pyramid using only the equipment given. Was definitely an enjoyable activity by all students. 
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  1. UnknownFebruary 25, 2016 at 4:47 PM

    What a great way to assess, create, build upon and support your students co-operative learning skills. This also supports our key competencies development. Please share with others in our school.

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