Cup Stacking Challenge

I'm didactics a chemical scientific discipline bird this yr for the kickoff time. My bird is made upwards of all juniors in addition to seniors amongst the exception of i sophomore. I taught virtually every unmarried i of these students equally freshmen inwards Algebra 1. This agency that they've seen most of my tried in addition to truthful first-week of schoolhouse activities before. I decided to direct hold this equally an chance to endeavor out roughly novel ideas that I'd seen online simply never tried. One of my favorites to effect from this experimenting was the Cup Stacking Challenge. This is a definite keeper of an activity!

Each grouping received i rubberband, a slice of string (2 ft long) for each fellow member of the grouping (2 pieces of string per soul for groups of alone 2), half dozen cups, in addition to a deck of challenge cards that I printed from here.

I develop a timer for 10 minutes in addition to challenged groups to operate through equally many of the challenges equally possible inwards that time.

The crucial rule: students are alone allowed to touching on the string. They can't touching on the rubberband or the cups.

It was super-fun to lookout the groups progress from "This is impossible" to "Let's endeavor this" to "Oooooh!" to "This is easy" to "Uh oh. What are nosotros going to create now?'

The final few challenge cards instructed groups to create it without whatever verbal communication. They establish this super difficult in addition to kept accidentally talking.