APPENDIX A Activity 1: Destination ImagiNation® Mini Challenges | Destination ImagiNation® Mini Challenges | 1. Challenge 1: Make something as long as possible, using only 1 piece of 2 | different kinds of items. (For example, 1 piece of paper and 1 address label) Time limit: 6 minutes | 2. Challenge 2: Make something as long as possible, using only 1 piece of 2 different kinds of items. (Example: 1 piece of paper and 1 address label). What you make must extend across the top of the table with one end hanging over the edge of the table. What you make must hold a weight (1 golf ball) on the end hanging over the edge of the table. Time limit: 4 minutes 3. Challenge 3: Make something as high as possible, using as many pieces of as many items as you wish. What you build must be free-standing, self- supporting. Time limit: 6 minutes 4, Challenge 4: Make something as high as possible, using as many pieces of as many items as you wish. What you build must be free-standing, self- supporting. What you build must be able to hold a weight (1 golf ball) at its highest point. Time limit: 4 minutes | 5. Challenge 5: Build something across the backs of two chairs 12in. apart, using only six pieces total of any items. (Ex: 4 straws and 2 address labels). What you build must be able to hold a weight (1 golf ball) at its center point. Time limit: 5 minutes 6. Challenge 6: Move any item 18in. (.46m) across the tabletop without any team member touching the item. Time limit: 2 minutes 7. Challenge 7: Move any item 18in. (.46m) across the tabletop without any team member touching the item and without any other items or any team member entering the 18in. (.46m) space. Time limit: 3 minutes © Destination ImagiNation, Ine. 2005 Page 8 Training Module 10: Making Materials WorkAPPENDIX B Tips for the Trainer: Mini Challenges Note: Possibly solutions? MANY! 1. Challenge 1: TO BUILD - LENGTH (Without Weight) Make something as long as possible, using only 1 piece of 2 different kinds of items. (For example, | 1 piece of paper and | address label) Some teams will use an extender (e.g. a piece of paper, torn) Some teams will use an extender and a connector (¢.g. a piece of paper, torn into strips, and a label). Some teams will use 2 extenders (e.g. a piece of paper and a newspaper). If the team uses two extenders, then they have to devise a way to make a connection (e.g. tearing a notch at the end of each item and “hooking” them together) 12. Challenge 2: ‘TH (With Weight) Make something as long as possible using only I piece of 2 different kinds of items. (Example: 1 piece of paper and 1 address label). What you make must extend across the top of the table with one end hanging over the edge of the table, What you make must hold a weight (1 golf ball) on the end hanging over the edge of the table. Time limit: 4 minutes . This adds a change to Challenge 1. The Extender might need to be stronger. The Connector might need to be stronger. There may need to be a Controller. Consider using materials for purposes other than their original design for Extender and Connector ~ for Creative Use of Materials. | 3. Challenge 3: TO BUILD - TOWER (Without Weight) Make something as high as possible, using as many pieces of as many items as you wish, What you build must be free-standing, self-supporting ¢ limit: 6 minutes ‘They really like this one!They can get carried away. Structures fall over, ete. However, some of the towers can really get up there. Debrief them and then ask them to VERBALLY come up with several other ways to go “up.” Get into a discussion about how triangles (broad bases) usually help to stabilize towers that are simply going for heights. | 4. Challenge 4: TO BUILD - TOWER (With Weight) | | Make something as high as possible, using as many pieces of as many items as you wish. What you | | build must be free-standing, self-supporting. What you build must be able to hold a weight (I golf | | i ball) at its highest point. Time limit: 4 minutes This change to Challenge 3 makes ail the difference. The Extender might need to be stronger. Connector might need to be stronger. There may need to be a Controller (in the tower and/or in supporting the weight). © Destination ImagiNation, Inc, 2005 Paged Training Module 10: Making Materials WorkThey may also consider lowering the f 5. Challenge 5: TO BUILD - BRIDGE (With Weight) i of gravity. Build something across the backs of two chairs 12in. apart, using only six pieces total of any items. | (Ex: 4 straws and 2 address labels). What you build must be able to hold a weight (1 golf ball) at its | center point. ime limit: 5 mi . They will usually all get a basic bridge built, Debrief them then ask them to VERBALLY use different items than they used before. | 6. Challenge 6: TO MOVE - HORIZONTAL (Across a surface - Can't touch item being moved) Move any item 18in. (46m) across the tabletop without any team member touching the item. ‘Time limit: 2 minutes : This Mini Challenge is usually NO problem to any table team. They simply use another item to move the “untouchable” item, "7. Challenge 7: TO MOVE - HORIZONTAL (Across a surface - Can't touch item being moved & cannot enter space) Move any item 18in. (.46m) across the tabletop without any team member touching the item or any team member entering the 18in, (46m) space. | i it: 3 mi “Many tilt the table or use air to move the item across the space. If these methods are used, ask the table team how they might use their materials to accomplish the task. NOTE: Participants should now be understanding materials and their original design, their alternative uses, and how to make the materials work for the purpose needed. ‘Your Notes: ‘© Destination ImagiNation, Ine. 2005 Page 10, Training Module 10: Making Materials Work