Box Maker

Blurb: In an adaptation to a classic game, participants will be in a life sized dotted grid
where they will try and create the most boxes for their team. Discussion will focus on
strategic planning and executing a plan.

Topics/Skills: STEM, strategic planning

STEM Principles:

Identifying patterns
Strategic planning

Purpose:

To understand how to develop and implement a plan.

To understand how to adapt a plan based on changing circumstances
To identify patterns that may be occurring

Objective: To have participants work together obtain the most boxes in the dotted grid.

Goals:

To use STEM principles to create a plan to obtain boxes in the playing grid.
Relate STEM principles used in this activity to their personal lives.

Time: 15-30 minutes

Supplies:

Tape
Blindfolds
Color by numbers (for the dots)

Activity:

Set up activity by laying color by numbers out (to look like a grid)
Break group into teams
Give each team a different colored blindfold.
One at a time, teams lay down their blindfold between two dots.
 The goal is to lay down the final blindfold to complete the box. The team that lays
down the final blindfold for a box gets the box for the team. The team with the most
boxes at the end, wins.

Closing: Large group discussion

Reflection Topics Could Include:

Strategic planning
Identifying patterns