Getting Organized: Project Trays

Beginning of School Year Cup Stacking Challenge Dollar Tree Getting Organized Growth Mindset Marshmallow Challenge organization

Getting Organized: Project Trays

A duad of weeks ago, my hubby as well as I had to elbow grease to a nearby town to view our credit union. This town happens to convey a Dollar Tree, as well as therefore nosotros decided to halt in. We weren't looking for anything inwards particular, but that's never stopped us before! :)

I was hoping that at that spot mightiness hold out around kind of organizer that would concur missive of the alphabet sized paper. After walking downwards the aisle total of organizing baskets, I idea I was out of luck. Then, Shaun spotted around paper-sized baskets inwards a totally unrelated section. I decided these would hold out PERFECT for putting supplies together for diverse activities.

I ended upward buying 8 of these baskets. Here are half-dozen of them on my dorsum counter waiting for me to trace out the needed materials for time to come activities.

One of the baskets is currently sitting on my desk, as well as the 8th handbasket is sitting inwards my husband's room. 

I experience as well as therefore much improve nearly having supplies out on the counter when they are inwards 1 of these baskets instead of merely sitting out. These were super useful for the showtime calendar week of classes since I had as well as therefore many dissimilar activities going on amongst dissimilar supplies!

Here are our supplies for the marshmallow challenge. 

These 2 baskets convey cups, rubberbands, as well as string for the loving cup stacking challenge as well as paper increment mindset challenges. 

These are definitely worth the $8 investment!

Cup Stacking Challenge

Activities Beginning of School Year Chemistry Cup Stacking Challenge lessons

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.

Here's a video I took of i of my groups: