Exciting Team Challenge For Creative Physics - Up The Challenge
Exciting Team Challenge For Creative Physics - Up The Challenge is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- In advance, fill a bunch of balloons with helium gas.
- Distribute one helium-filled balloon to teams of two or three people (grocery bags are optional.)
- Each team has 20 minutes to experiment with attaching one or more resources to the base of the balloon to slow its rise to the ceiling when released.
- When ready, release all balloons at the same time.
- Each team aims to have its balloon be the last one to hit the ceiling.
- The only condition of ‘winning’ is that a team’s balloon must touch the ceiling.
- Up The Challenge Exciting team challenge combining physics with creative thinking.
- Up The Challenge is an exciting team challenge that invites teams to think scientifically while working together under time pressure.
- It’s perfect as a fun team-building activity because everyone gets hands-on experience testing different ideas via trial-and-error learning.
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Each team has 20 minutes to experiment with attaching one or more resources to the base of the balloon to slow its rise to the ceiling when released.
Each team aims to have its balloon be the last one to hit the ceiling.
The only condition of ‘winning’ is that a team’s balloon must touch the ceiling.
It’s perfect as a fun team-building activity because everyone gets hands-on experience testing different ideas via trial-and-error learning.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Exciting Team Challenge For Creative Physics - Up The Challenge. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Each team has 20 minutes to experiment with attaching one or more resources to the base of the balloon to slow its rise to the ceiling when released.; Each team aims to have its balloon be the last one to hit the ceiling.; The only condition of ‘winning’ is that a team’s balloon must touch the ceiling.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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