Fun & Creative Team-Building Exercise for Groups - Map Making
Supply your group with a bunch of long lengths of tubular webbing (or ropes.) Challenge your group to lay the webbing onto the ground to represent the two-dimensional shape or map of the world (or township, state, etc.) Encourage your group to work collaboratively to produce a map, as accurately as possible.
How to run it
- Supply your group with a bunch of long lengths of tubular webbing (or ropes.)
- Challenge your group to lay the webbing onto the ground to represent the two-dimensional shape or map of the world (or township, state, etc.)
- Encourage your group to work collaboratively to produce a map, as accurately as possible.
- Allow 10 to 15 minutes to complete the task.
- Once completed, consider using the map as a reflection tool (see Reflection Tips tab.)
- Map Making Creative team-building exercise to boost collaboration.
- Map Making is a creative team-building exercise that encourages groups to share knowledge and work together to recreate geographical features from memory.
- Ideally set in a large open space, this fun team-building activity reveals how teams organise themselves around a shared goal while building communication and spatial awareness skills.
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Challenge your group to lay the webbing onto the ground to represent the two-dimensional shape or map of the world (or township, state, etc.)
Encourage your group to work collaboratively to produce a map, as accurately as possible.
Once completed, consider using the map as a reflection tool (see Reflection Tips tab.)
Map Making Creative team-building exercise to boost collaboration.
Map Making is a creative team-building exercise that encourages groups to share knowledge and work together to recreate geographical features from memory.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Fun & Creative Team-Building Exercise for Groups - Map Making. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Challenge your group to lay the webbing onto the ground to represent the two-dimensional shape or map of the world (or township, state, etc.); Encourage your group to work collaboratively to produce a map, as accurately as possible.; Once completed, consider using the map as a reflection tool (see Reflection Tips tab.); . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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