TEAM BUILDING CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES - VIDEO & ASSIGNMENTS

Start the first month back to school off with these 5 creative team-building activities that incorporate creative-thinking and problem-solving skills while also allowing your students to have fun! These team-building activities will engage even your most reluctant students. The best part is that each activity comes with a hand-drawn video, created by the talented John Spencer, that introduces the activities to hook students in! Watch the preview video above to get a sneak peek of the videos included and download the preview to get a closer look at the activity handouts, organizers, puzzles, stations, and projects.

WHAT ARE THE FIVE TEAM-BUILDING ACTIVITIES?

1. MAKER SPRINT CHALLENGE

Students will develop and sell a product made from cardboard, a roll of tape, two plastic cups, a plastic bag and string.

2. ZOMBIE ESCAPE ROOM

Students will attempt to save their teacher who has been transformed into a zombie by working together to solve puzzles and riddles.

3. WONDER DAY

Students will feed their curiosity by researching a topic they are interested in or curious about.

4. SOLVE THE MYSTERY

Students will work together to solve a mystery about a buried ship in the middle of Downtown San Francisco

5. SPORTS MASH-UP

Students will develop a new sport that combines and mashes up elements from

other different sports.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

• Students watch hand-drawn videos that introduce each of the five team-building activities. These videos are highly engaging and will hook your students immediately. Watch the video preview on the product page to get a sneak peek.

• Use the eye-catching PowerPoint presentations to introduce each of the activities in detail to your class and guide you through each element of the activity.

• Use the student handouts, brainstorming sheets, graphic organizers, puzzles, task cards, and stations to implement the activities!

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN MY PURCHASE?

1. MAKER SPRINT CHALLENGE

→ Introductory video

→ Teacher Instructions

→ PowerPoint to guide the lesson

→ 2 Brainstorming sheets

→ Analyze your ideas checklist

→ Product outline sheet

→ Using persuasive techniques handout (ethos, pathos, logos)

→ Creating an advertisement planning sheets (blog, video, sales pitch)

→ Final copy sheet for ad write-up

→ Teacher rubric

2. ZOMBIE ESCAPE ROOM

→ Introductory video

→ Teacher Instructions

→ PowerPoint to guide the lesson

→ Signs for each of the six stations

→ Student instructions for each of the six stations

→ All the materials students need for each station (envelope templates, word maze, homophone slips, cipher wheel, jigsaw puzzle, rubus puzzles, spelling search, encrypted message)

→ A student zombie booklet where the group can record the codes they find.

→ A teacher answer key you can use to check the work to determine the winner.

3. WONDER DAY

→ Introductory video

→ Teacher instructions

→ PowerPoint to guide the lesson

→ Are your sources credible? Student handout

→ Wonder Day research graphic organizer

→ Double-sided final copy sheet

→ Teacher rubric

SOLVE THE MYSTERY

→ Introductory video

→ Teacher instructions

→ PowerPoint to guide the lesson

→ Buried ship mystery student handout

→ Inferring information brainstorming sheet

→ Our final theory graphic organizer (with prompting sentence stems)

5. SPORTS MASH-UP

→ Introductory video

→ Teacher instructions

→ PowerPoint to guide the lesson

→ Sports mash-up brainstorming page (with prompting questions)

→ Double-sided sports mash-up idea development page (with prompting questions)

→ Rough draft for sport instructions

→ Revise and edit peer editing sheet

→ Double-sided final copy sheets (with spaces for illustration

→ Teacher rubric

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The videos and resources in this resource are for single-classroom use and are not to be uploaded to the Internet in any format without permission from the creators. Please contact prestoplans@gmail.com if you require more information.