Maker Challenge Team Building Activity for Back to School - Digital

Maker Challenge Team Building Activity for Back to School - Digital: Use this engaging digital back to school video team building activity as a improve divergent thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and creative writing. In this activity, students will develop and sell a product made from cardboard, a roll of tape, two plastic cups, a plastic bag and string. The best part is that your purchase comes with a hand-drawn video, created by the talented John Spencer, that introduces the activity to hook students in! you can use to implement the activity in your classroom.

This is a digital resource, and students complete all the work on the computer (aside from the maker process). This works well with distance learning, 1:1 classrooms, remote teaching, Google Classroom, or online education.

This is included in our popular team-building bundle:
>>> Back to School Videos & Assignments Digital Bundle

How This Back to School Team Building Maker Challenge Works:

• Students watch a hand-drawn video that introduces the activity to students. This video is highly engaging and will hook your students immediately. Watch the video preview on the product page to get a sneak peek.
• Use the eye-catching Google Slides presentation to introduce the activity in more detail to your class and guide you through each element of the lesson and activity.
• Use the digital instructions, graphic organizers, checklists, instructional slides, and teacher rubric to implement the icebreaker team builder activity.

What's Included in This Back to School Team Building Maker Challenge:

➡️ Introductory Video: Use this highly engaging hand-drawn video to introduce the maker challenge to students. The video explains that students will develop and sell a product made from cardboard, a roll of tape, two plastic cups, a plastic bag and string and attempt to sell it with a persuasive writing pitch.

➡️ Teacher instructions: Use the detailed teacher instructions to guide you in successfully using this back to school maker challenge activity! You'll feel totally confident implementing the lesson with these instructions.

➡️ Teacher Presentation: A Google Slides presentation is included to guide you through all elements of the lesson and activity. The lesson also provides instruction on ethos, pathos, and logos for students to use in their sales pitches.

➡️ 2 Digital Brainstorming Pages: Students can use these two brainstorming slides to consider what product they want to make with these items. There is an open space brainstorming page option and a more structured table option to give students choice.

➡️ Analyze Your Ideas Digital Checklist: Students use this four-step digital checklist to analyze their brainstorming ideas and consider what they want to keep, remove, merge together, or mash up.

➡️ Digital Product Outline: Students will plan out their product development by completing this digital outline that asks them to consider how they will make it, how the product works, and roadblocks they might encounter.

➡️ Persuasive Techniques Student Informational Slide: Provide students with this useful slide that outlines ethos, pathos, and logos as persuasive strategies they can use in their advertisement for their product.

➡️ Creating an Advertisement Planning and Good Copy Slides: Have students plan and outline their advertisement with these two pre-writing digital graphic organizers where they consider if they want to write a blog, podcast, or sales pitch. Then, they can complete their final ad write-up on the good copy slides provided.

➡️ Teacher Rubric: Assess the final product with this quick and easy-to-use rubric.

What Teachers Are Saying About This Back to School Team Building Maker Challenge:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Oh my gosh - what a fun way to start our school day! We had the best time creating a project using the materials provided. My students created "The Fun Balloon" and even filmed a TV commercial to share with their parents. The simple video included in the product was a great introduction to the activity and helped explain what the expectations of the group work were. Thanks for a fun team building activity!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Great for global competencies, has pupils collaborating communicating and creating, and they have fun! Video is great for explaining what to do. I love collaborations between Presto plans and John Spencer!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This activity truly activated my students' creative thinking.

If you like this, you'll love this bundle:
>>> Video Creative Writing Projects

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