Team Building Exercise: The Web
Purpose:
To teach students to depend on others to solve a
problem. It involves using physical trust, group problem solving skills,
long-range planning.
Materials:
- String (heavy - will not break easily).
- A circle for the center.
Rules:
Each team member must go through the web - which
means:
- They cannot go around the trees.
- They cannot go under the web (between
the web and the ground).
- They cannot go over the web.
- They cannot go between the web and the tree.
Additional rules:
- A team must use all sections once before they can be reused.
- Sections
that are not large enough for any of the bodies on a team to go through
are exempted spaces.
- When passing through the web you cannot touch the string (the spider
will be alerted).
Possible strategies:
The most difficult people to get through the Web are the first and the last
person, so they should be selected with respect to their size and the size
the the sections closest to the ground. Heavier people might be "passed"
in the middle so that there are people on both sides to send and receive.
