Michelle over at Delightful Learning is in the process of posting weekly challenges to encourage creative thinking and problem-solving skills. She invites you to join her each week at
The idea for this came from my desire to give my older kids a weekly challenge in their workboxes. A couple years ago, we had the opportunity to be onDestination Imagination (DI) team. The boys had fun, learned so much while participating and their team took first place at the state competition. The Instant Challenge is the heart of DI, and our favorite part of the experience. And I thought it would be a perfect addition to our workboxes.
I am really excited about this, and I think you will like it too. So I am inviting you to join us!
"Up for a Challenge?" will be a weekly meme designed to get students involved in critical thinking and creative problem solving by doing an Instant Challenge.
According to the DI website, Instant Challenges promote critical thinking, creativity and the ability to solve problems quickly.
Furthermore, IC's promote:
The ability to assess and use available materials in creative ways
A knack for improvisation
A collaboration of efforts
Their engineering skills
A flair for performance
Time-management strategies
Teamwork
Instant Challenges can be Performance-based, Task-based, or a combination of the two (called a hybrid challenge). For the purpose of this carnival, I will focus on task-based and hybrid challenges and give Performance-based challenges as an extra challenge from time to time (unless you are willing to video record your challenges, it can be harder to share performance challenges online).
Using the challenges at Instant Challenge Gold Mine, I will post a new instant challenge each week on Monday and then ask you to join us.
Each challenge uses common materials that you can find around the house, such as mailing labels, chenille sticks, straws, rubber bands, etc.
This looks like something my oldest son would enjoy doing from his workbox. I'll share with you in the next few days how it went.
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