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Description

Spaghetti tower challenge with an equity difference

Resources

Tables
Chairs
Scissors
Spaghetti (10 pieces per team)
Marshmallows (2 per team)
Sticky tape (5 pieces per team)

Instructions

Split everyone into at least three groups – green, red and yellow. Make sure each team has a table to work on and hand out the spaghetti, marshmallows, tape and scissors.

Each team needs 10 pieces of spaghetti, 2 marshmallows, 5 pieces of sticky tape and a pair of scissors.
Give the teams these instructions: You have 15 minutes to build the highest spaghetti tower you can. It must be placed on the table, be able to stand by itself, and support a marshmallow on top.

When it’s time to start, hand out the cards to each team.

The ‘facilitator’ should find a space to stand and if team members want to speak to them, they should queue up.

The facilitator can decide whether to fast track members of the green team to the front.

The facilitator will have a fixed amount of extra resources they’ll give to the green team when they ask. They’ll have the same amount to hand out to the yellow team, but will only hand out what they feel like, based on the request, their reasons, and the way they ask. If the red team ask for any extra resources, they should be told that they can’t take anything. It’s not expressly said, but there is no rule that requires teams to build separate towers, and no rules to stop anyone sharing resources.

Once the 15 minutes is up, as a group everyone should review the towers and see which team managed to build the tallest.

To finish, spend some time reflecting on the challenge. We’ve added some ideas in the ‘Reflection’ section at the bottom of this page to help.

Tags

• team activity
• teamwork

Badge Links

• Teamwork - Challenge