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Team Challenges

Five team building challenges for form time. Teams of four or five rank ten things to survive at sea, build the tallest tower they can from ten sheets of paper, solve a puzzle when each person holds one or two of the clues, and line up in birthday order without speaking. The fifth challenge is done in pairs: one person describes a picture and the other draws it without seeing it. Run one at a time. Each takes fifteen to twenty minutes, and every challenge ends by asking what the best team did, so the form talks about how people worked together as well as who won. Two of the five need a sheet printing.

Year 7 to 13, for Year 7 to 9, Year 10 and 11 and sixth form · form time or registration · free to download Jump to the downloads

How it works

Team Challenges · Split Clues · Clue 3

“Dev did not lose anything on Monday.”

Everyone in the team holds a clue like this. They can read it out as often as they like, but nobody else can see it.

1
Get into teams.

Put the form into teams of four or five, sitting together. Describe and Draw is done in pairs.

2
Pick one challenge.

Run one challenge a session, in any order you like, and hide the slides for the other four challenges.

3
Run it.

Put up the challenge’s first slide and follow the slides in order. The rules, the timings and the answers are all on them.

4
Ask the question.

Every challenge ends by asking what the best team, or the best pair, actually did. Leave a few minutes for this at the end, because talking it through is where the form learns the most.

A look inside

The five challenges
The five challenges
What is in the raft, from Lost at Sea
Lost at Sea
The Split Clues cards
The Split Clues cards

Get the challenges

Two of the five need printing: the Lost at Sea sheet, one each, and a page of Split Clues cards for each team. Paper Tower needs ten sheets of scrap paper per team and a tape measure. Want to know when Volume Two goes up? Sign up here.

PowerPoint

The slides

All five challenges, each with its rules, the challenge itself, the answer where there is one, and the question to finish on.

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Teacher resource pack

Four pages: the guide, the Lost at Sea sheet, the answers for you, and the Split Clues cards.

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