One of my after school programs was called Extreme Team Fun. Students worked together to complete various activities that demanded communication, listening skills, team work, and strategy. One obstacle that students played was called Lone Island. Working together students would have to get from one side of the gym to the other. There were 11 students and they only had 9 place mats as their traveling source. The gym floor was transformed into hot molten lava and the only thing they could use was the plates to get across, but the plate only worked if there was contact from a human. So if students dropped the plate and did not have a foot or hand on it I would take it away leaving one less place mat.When I first introduced this game to the students some stated that they wouldn't be able to make it across but as I assured them that they could it would only take communication, patience, and excellent ram work to make it possible. Two of the older students began to exemplify their leadership skills and organized the group. They begun to strategize a plan to make it across the molten hot lava and with the succession of their planning almost all of the students made it.
Even though students didn't make it all the way across I assured them that sometimes the accomplishment is in the journey itself. You all first believed that you wouldn't be able to make it half way. Not only did you surpass that but given if we had more time you all would have made it.
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