Sunday, February 6, 2011

The Marshmallow Challenge




















Friday saw us completing two interesting challenges. Have a look at the photos of the first challenge - The Marshmallow Challenge

There is a great link for this:
This challenge promotes team work and co-operation. Part of our homework this week is
to comment on the challenge - what the children found the hardest part, what thinking went on and what they could do next time.

30 comments:

  1. The marshmallow challenge was really fun and lots of people came up with lots of exciting and crazy ways to build there sculptures.

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  2. You are quite right Emma! First comment from this year's wonderful group.
    I loved seeing how everyone's minds worked!!

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  3. My team did really well but we got disqualified because we didn't put the marshmallow on the highest point.

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  4. I loved your thinking on this though Kees. if you had had time and trimmed the spaghetti your team would have easily won.
    You were an impressive team and I really enjoyed listening to your discussions. :-)

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  5. my team was really good it was cool to see the other bulidings my team didn't win because we didn't put the marshmallow on the top =)

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  6. I thought you did a great job and all you communicated your ideas clearly. I can't wait to see how you complete some of the other thinking challenges this term!

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  7. The Marshmallow challange was a great way to get people working together and listening to others peoples ideas I really injoyed it. Thank you mrs Hughes.

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  8. You are very welcome Simone! I loved listening to everyone's ideas and the different ways they went about solving the problems. You showed persistence and determination while working as a great team. Proud of you!

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  9. Crazy we are, we all came up with bonkers ideas.We are all just like you Mrs Hughes.Haha :)

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  10. Now that is the best compliment I could receive Gabby! Loved all the discussion and the laughs. :-)

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  11. Hi Ben here it was really fun to work with my group and watch other people.

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  12. You have such an awesome attitude to working with others Ben. Proud of you.

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  13. To Mrs Hughes

    I really enjoyed working with my group and trying to design
    a tower. But are group cheated by putting the marshmallow on after the timer stopped.

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  15. You are incredibly honest Jack! If the marshmallow had been put on before the timer ran out, you would have won the challenge. There's always next time. :-)
    I'm enjoying hearing your ideas.

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  16. this was a very very yummy challenge. After our tower had collapsed me Mac Bruce and Josh all wanted to eat the marshmallow.

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  17. I found the marshmallow challenge hard because our team couldn't get the marshmallow on the top. After a while we finally did get it on just after the timer had beeped.

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  18. Hmm... I should have brought more marshmallows in! Please you enjoyed the challenge Cameron. :-)

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  19. You worked well as a team Benjamin. I'm looking forward to giving you more challenges to solve. Thank you so much for your ICT help over the last few days. You are very skilled in this area! :-)

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  20. Hi it's Liam here the marshmellow challenge was very exciting and crazy because you had to use some great ideas.we tried to involve our whole group but we didn't go to well.

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  21. Hi Liam. I loved your comment and I was pleased you enjoyed the challenge. You are a very honest person and that also makes you a pretty fantastic learner. I'm looking forward to seeing what you achieve this term. :-)

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  22. We tried heaps of things but two seconds after the beeper it collapsed so we should have kept Kaitlyn's little back up one.

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  23. Great comment Travis. I like that you've given credit to Kaitlyn's idea too - that's good leadership. :-)

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  24. Hi Andrew here. the chllenge madde you use your creative thinking skills and it was very fun to try. Our sculpture didn't fall but it was below the level we were making it on

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  25. Great comment Andrew. I always enjoy hearing your thoughts and ideas and know that if you completed this challenge again, you would have even more fantastic and creative ideas. :-)

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  26. Hi, It's Tim here. The marshmellow challenge was heaps of fun. It was fun watching everyones towers snap. But the annoying thing was that my groups tower snaped on the last second marshmellow kept on bouncing up and doun and up and down on a noodle. Anyway i've got to go now. Farwell.

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  27. Hi it is Jaidene I loved the marshmellow game.I think Sean,Gabby,Karen and I were a great team

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  28. Yes, that did not go at all to plan Mr Smith! I know you could solve this next time though. You must have been quite nervous with the bouncing marshmallow!

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  29. I agree Jaidene. You were a superb team because you communicated so well and respected each other's ideas. I was very proud of you. :-)
    I can't wait to see more of your great thinking.

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