No-Hands Cup Stacking Challenge
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CTE Competencies met during this project:
VA Workplace Readiness Skills
Demonstrate positive work ethic.
Demonstrate integrity.
Demonstrate teamwork skills.
Demonstrate self-representation skills.
Demonstrate diversity awareness.
Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.
Demonstrate creativity and resourcefulness.
Demonstrating Workplace Readiness Skills: Professional Knowledge and Skills
Demonstrate effective speaking and listening skills.
Demonstrate effective reading and writing skills.
Demonstrate critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
Demonstrate healthy behaviors and safety skills.
Demonstrate an understanding of workplace organizations, systems, and climates.
Demonstrate lifelong-learning skills.
Demonstrate job-acquisition and advancement skills.
Demonstrate time-, task-, and resource-management skills.
Demonstrate job-specific mathematics skills.
Demonstrate customer-service skills.
Describe the engineering design process.
VA Workplace Readiness Skills
Demonstrate positive work ethic.
Demonstrate integrity.
Demonstrate teamwork skills.
Demonstrate self-representation skills.
Demonstrate diversity awareness.
Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.
Demonstrate creativity and resourcefulness.
Demonstrating Workplace Readiness Skills: Professional Knowledge and Skills
Demonstrate effective speaking and listening skills.
Demonstrate effective reading and writing skills.
Demonstrate critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
Demonstrate healthy behaviors and safety skills.
Demonstrate an understanding of workplace organizations, systems, and climates.
Demonstrate lifelong-learning skills.
Demonstrate job-acquisition and advancement skills.
Demonstrate time-, task-, and resource-management skills.
Demonstrate job-specific mathematics skills.
Demonstrate customer-service skills.
Describe the engineering design process.
200 points for project. 100 points for participation in challenge. 100 points for review questions below. -100 FOR ALL TEAM MEMBERS IF YOU TOUCH THE CUPS!
The challenge is for the group to build a pyramid out of the paper cups (3 on the bottom, 2 in the middle, 1 on the top - can be adjusted for more cups). Group members cannot touch the cups with their hands or any other part of their bodies, even if a cup falls over or on the floor. Each person holds onto one of the strings that are attached to the rubber band and they use this device to pick up the cups and place them on top of each other (by pulling the rubber band apart and then bringing it back together over the cups).
Materials: 10 feet of string, 5 rubber bands, 6 cups.
When you complete this task, take a picture of your stacked cups. Insert this photo into a Google Document with the names of your group members. Every Group member must cut and paste these questions on a Google Document, then answer the questions in complete phrases. Submit to Google Classroom.
1. What was your plan to solve this problem? Explain how you brainstormed how to complete the problem?
2. Did the group select your idea to solve this problem?
3. Was anyone frustrated at all during the activity? If so how was it handled?
4. What did you learn about yourself or others?
5. Why was teamwork so important for this activity?
6. What is so hard about teamwork?
7. What did you do today to contribute to the teamwork on your team?
8. What are some skills needed to be good at teamwork?
9. Are you ever in a situation where you must use teamwork? Is this always easy for you? Why or why not?
10. How can we use what we learned through this experience in situations outside the game?
11. How long did it take to stack the 6 cups? Or did you fail to complete the activity.
*Make sure you submit a photo of your 6 cups stacked with your team.
The challenge is for the group to build a pyramid out of the paper cups (3 on the bottom, 2 in the middle, 1 on the top - can be adjusted for more cups). Group members cannot touch the cups with their hands or any other part of their bodies, even if a cup falls over or on the floor. Each person holds onto one of the strings that are attached to the rubber band and they use this device to pick up the cups and place them on top of each other (by pulling the rubber band apart and then bringing it back together over the cups).
Materials: 10 feet of string, 5 rubber bands, 6 cups.
When you complete this task, take a picture of your stacked cups. Insert this photo into a Google Document with the names of your group members. Every Group member must cut and paste these questions on a Google Document, then answer the questions in complete phrases. Submit to Google Classroom.
1. What was your plan to solve this problem? Explain how you brainstormed how to complete the problem?
2. Did the group select your idea to solve this problem?
3. Was anyone frustrated at all during the activity? If so how was it handled?
4. What did you learn about yourself or others?
5. Why was teamwork so important for this activity?
6. What is so hard about teamwork?
7. What did you do today to contribute to the teamwork on your team?
8. What are some skills needed to be good at teamwork?
9. Are you ever in a situation where you must use teamwork? Is this always easy for you? Why or why not?
10. How can we use what we learned through this experience in situations outside the game?
11. How long did it take to stack the 6 cups? Or did you fail to complete the activity.
*Make sure you submit a photo of your 6 cups stacked with your team.