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Think! Team Building Challenge

November 2, 2011 by Ami 31 Comments

Are you tired of ho-hum co-op classes? Do you need a creative class? A challenging class? A class that teaches team work? This class does all three of those–it is one of my favorites!

Think! Team Building Challenge teaches kids to learn from failure, promotes creative thinking and problem solving, and helps them learn to work together. 

Think! Team Building Challenge Homeschool Co-op Class from Walking by the Way

This class was born out of my desire to do these creative-critical thinking projects with my son. I always struggled to find the time to work them into our homeschool schedule. 

Each week students received a stack of supplies and one basic instruction such as construct a tall-as-possible tower. No instructions were given. My helper and I tried not to give much advice or ideas. The students built by our motto: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!

I'm not going to claim that this class was all gumdrops and rainbows. We had moments of failure; moments of frustration– red faces and even some tears. But we also had those tiptop mountain moments–the second of success after the struggle. Amazing. 

We repeated our motto (or battle cry) at the beginning of every class. "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!"

You can download the syllabus and supply list here. 

If you have to teach co-op next semester, and haven't chosen your class, seriously consider this one. It's brainy-building and fun!

I have lots of Creative Homeschool Cooperative Classes compiled here on the blog.

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Filed Under: co-op capers, creative cooperative classes Tagged With: building, co-op, critical thinking

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  1. Belinda says

    November 3, 2011 at 10:16 am

    Love, love love this idea. Thanks! I will be doing this with my kids at home.

  2. Liesl says

    November 7, 2011 at 9:22 am

    I love the syllabus. Thank you so much for sharing this. I’m definitely going to try these at some point with my kids. ~Liesl

  3. Clementine says

    November 7, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    Love this!

  4. Martianne says

    November 11, 2011 at 2:20 pm

    I love this!

    It reminds me of a coop class I ran that I never finsihed psoting about, but you can find somea t my blog, like this one: http://traininghappyhearts.blogspot.com/2011/04/read-aloud-to-real-challenges-early.html and this one http://traininghappyhearts.blogspot.com/2011/04/read-aloud-to-real-challenges-my-friend.html

  5. Tammy says

    March 13, 2012 at 9:26 am

    What a great class, thanks for pulling it together–our children will love this.

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