Team Building Classroom Activities - Back to School Videos & Assignments Bundle

Team Building Classroom Activities - Back to School Videos & Assignments Bundle: Start the first month back to school with these 5 creative team-building activities that incorporate creative thinking and problem-solving skills while also allowing your students to have fun! These team-building activities will engage even your most reluctant students. The best part is that each activity comes with a hand-drawn video, created by the talented John Spencer, that introduces the activities to hook students in! Watch the preview video above to get a sneak peek of the videos included and download the preview to get a closer look at the activity handouts, organizers, puzzles, stations, and projects.

The 5 Back to School Team-Building Activities Included:

➡️ Maker Sprint Challenge: In this creative and hands-on activity, students will develop and sell a product made from cardboard, a roll of tape, two plastic cups, a plastic bag and string.

➡️ Zombie Teacher Escape Room: Students will attempt to save their teacher who has been transformed into a zombie by working together to solve puzzles and riddles.

➡️ Wonder Day: Students will feed their curiosity by researching a topic they are interested in or curious about.

➡️ Buried Ship Mystery: Students will work together to solve a mystery about a buried ship in the middle of Downtown San Francisco.

➡️ Sports Mash-Up: Students will develop a new sport that combines and mashes up elements from other different sports.

How Do The Back to School Team Building Activities Work?:

• Students watch hand-drawn videos that introduce each of the five team-building activities. These videos are 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 PowerPoint presentations to introduce each of the activities in detail to your class and guide you through each element of the activity.

• Use the student handouts, brainstorming sheets, graphic organizers, puzzles, task cards, and stations to implement the activities!

Included in the Back to School Team Building Activities:

All of the resources include... an introductory video, teacher instructions, and a PowerPoint presentation to guide the lesson. Below are the other resources included:

➡️ Maker Sprint Challenge:

• Two brainstorming graphic organizers
• Analyze Your Ideas Checklist
• Product Outline Sheet
• Using Persuasive Techniques Handout (ethos, pathos, logos)
• Creating an Advertisement Planning Pages (blog, video, sales pitch)
• Final Copy Pages for Advertisement
• Teacher Rubric

➡️ Zombie Teacher Escape Room:

• Signs for each of the six stations
• Student instructions for each of the six stations
• All the materials students need for each station (envelope templates, word maze, homophone slips, cipher wheel, jigsaw puzzle, rubus puzzles, spelling search, encrypted message)
• A student zombie booklet where the group can record the codes they find
• A teacher answer key to check the work to determine the winner

➡️ Wonder Day:

• Are Your Sources Credible? Handout
• Wonder Day Research Graphic Organizer
• Good Copy Pages
• Teacher Rubric

➡️ Buried Ship Mystery:

• Buried Ship Mystery Student Handout
• Inferring Information Brainstorming Page
• Our Final Theory Graphic Organizer (sentence stems)

➡️ Sports Mash-Up:

• Sports Mash-Up Brainstorming Page (with prompting questions)
• Sports Mash-Up Idea Development Pages (with prompting questions)
• Sport Instructions Rough Draft Page
• Revise and Edit Peer Editing Page
• Final Copy Pages (with spaces for illustrations)
• Teacher Rubric

What Teachers Are Saying About the Team Building Activities:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I started "Fun Fridays" this year. They were thrilled to play this game, and the teams were uber-competitive! This strengthens team-building skills. Thanks!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ These team building activities are so much fun. My students really enjoyed each activity, and I enjoyed watching them work together!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ These are really unique and engaging projects. Great to space out during the year for a class that might start off not knowing one another well. I did one after each time I mixed up the seating chart.

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