I ordered the book Team Challenges for use in the Odyssey of the Mind classes at SEE co-op this year.  It’s a great book and has lots of fun activities.  There are verbal activities, such as:

• Name kinds of space: outer space, space for rent, space heater, personal space, etc
• The answer is cheese pizza.  What is the question?:
  What is my favortie dinner?
  What could be used as a tire if it were overcooked?
  What can be round of square?

There are also building activities, which my kids love!  We had some friend over the other day and did one of the bridge building activities.  The kids were divided into two teams.  Each team received the following items to build a bridge:

• 2 chairs
• 1-12in piece of masking tape
• 5 straws
• 2 index cards
• 15 paper clips
• 1-3ft length of string

After building each bridge the teams could test the bridge out by seeing how many beans it could hold.  There was lots of discussion and lots of building and remodeling of bridges.  I think it’s safe to say everyone was pleased with their handiwork!

Tags: bridges, reviews, team work