Dream Teams

• Engaging Team Activities: Over 20 collaborative challenges that build leadership and social-emotional skills.
• Skill-Focused: Activities enhance communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
• Hands-On Learning: Emphasizes practical, real-world applications through games and experiments.
• Adaptable and Inclusive: Suitable for diverse groups and learning levels with modifications for different abilities.
• Fosters Leadership: Encourages students to step into roles as leaders, strategists, and team players.

Featured Activity: Construction Crew

Students step into the shoes of real-world construction teams, collaborating to build intricate structures using the Brain Builders Game. This activity fosters communication and strategic planning as teams navigate a competition to construct 3D models. Leaders must balance risk and reward, choosing tasks of varying difficulty to score points while ensuring precision. Through this engaging exercise, students practice patience, leadership, and spatial reasoning—all skills essential for real-world teamwork.

Featured Activity: Rescue Team

In this thrilling mission, students design and build rescue devices to save a figure trapped in a ravine. Using materials like bendable straws, string, and plastic figures, students combine creativity with engineering principles. They brainstorm, test, and refine their designs, learning resilience and the importance of iterative problem-solving. This challenge not only excites but also introduces STEM concepts in an accessible, collaborative format.

Complete Activity List

1. Construction Crew: Teams compete to build intricate 3D models while honing spatial reasoning.
2. That’s Letter-Perfect: Students form letters and words using their bodies, improving communication.
3. Thumbs Down: Teams tackle challenges with taped-down thumbs, fostering adaptability and leadership.
4. Take Flight: Create and test paper airplanes while exploring design and modification principles.
5. Tower Above: Build and stabilize towers with plunger challenges to practice engineering skills.
6. Rolling Around: Design spool racers and race them, combining physics with creative thinking.
7. Rescue Team: Engineer a rescue device for a stranded figure, emphasizing teamwork and problem-solving.
8. Who’s the Best?: Fun mini-games to highlight individual talents within a team setting.
9. Ping-Pong Jeopardy: Engage in trivia with a twist as players aim for targets to earn questions.
10. Build a Friendship: Answer engaging questions while playing Jenga-like games to foster communication.
11. Let Me Tell You: Pass a ball and answer creative questions to enhance speaking skills.
12. You Amaze Me: Construct marble mazes that challenge design thinking and group strategy.
13. Copy Cats: Test memory and attention to detail by recreating instructor-made designs.
14. All Tied Up: Perform tasks while tied to a partner, promoting cooperation and coordination.
15. Magic Carpet: Flip over a tarp while standing on it, focusing on problem-solving and balance.
16. Hit the Slopes: Navigate duct tape skis across an obstacle course in a fun, physical challenge.
17. Say, What?: Compete in word games that promote quick thinking and vocabulary skills.
18. Taking the Plunge: Balance ping-pong balls on plungers through obstacle courses.
19. Make Us Laugh: Use letter tiles to craft hilarious responses and develop creativity.
20. Just Spit It Out!: A rapid-response trivia game fostering respect and active listening.
21. A Likely Story: Create imaginative group stories, improving narrative skills.
22. Take Me to Your Leader: Practice nonverbal communication in a fun guessing game.
23. Kerplunk!: Strategize to remove sticks while keeping marbles stable in this classic game.
24. Listen Up: Direct teammates to draw hidden images using descriptive language.

Innovative Use of Traditional Materials: Brain Builders Game

This versatile game transforms into a collaborative construction tool, challenging students to think spatially and critically as they build complex models together. Its mix of beginner to expert levels ensures inclusivity and adaptability.

Innovative Use of Traditional Materials: Tumble Tower Game

Far from its traditional use, the Tumble Tower serves as a platform for storytelling, physical challenges, and critical thinking games, making it a cornerstone of creativity in this curriculum.

Other Notable Materials

• Letter Tiles: Enhance literacy through spelling challenges.
• Plungers: Unique tools for balancing and obstacle-course games.
• Ping-Pong Balls: Used in everything from trivia games to physical challenges.
• Modeling Clay: A fun medium for creative sculpting and design challenges.
• Thumball: Promotes conversation and active listening through engaging toss-and-answer play.

• Collaboration and Leadership
• Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving
• Communication Skills
• STEM and Design Thinking
• Social-Emotional Learning

• Engineering – Design and build real-world solutions through teamwork-based challenges that involve planning, testing, and refining.
• Health & Fitness – Engage in movement-rich activities that develop physical coordination, balance, and body awareness through collaborative play.
• Social & Emotional – Foster teamwork, empathy, leadership, and communication skills through interactive, group-based learning experiences.
• STEAM – Integrate creative problem-solving across science, technology, engineering, art, and math through playful, project-based activities.