The TOOBEEZ Challenge
Build this to learn how TOOBEEZ and Think-EEZ work as building systems. What are Toobeez? TUBES that connect EASILY with each other! The same way you and your group will connect easily and productively. A fun and innovative way to connect with your group. You’ve come to the right place! It’s the ultimate giant construction […]
Ramp it Up
Ramp it Up help students understand the importance of math and measurements in scientific experiments.
Isosceles Introduction
Encourage co-operation and teamwork in participants with Isosceles Introduction - a Toobeez team building activity.
Modeling Success
Modeling Success is a fun Toobeez' corporate team activity that helps hone leadership skills.
The Match Game
The Match Game is one of the great recreational seniors therapy activities that help seniors stay healthy.
Whatzit
Your group is on a cruise in the Panama Canal, and the ship engine has just blown a “whatzit.” It happens to look like a triangle, a rectangle and a square, made from Toobeez.
Benefits & Barriers
Benefits & Barriers is a recreational Senior Therapy which benefits all elderly people.
The Tunnel
Objectives Improve fine-motor skills Stimulate cognitive functioning Promote problem-solving skills Provide connectedness within a group Increase affiliation with others Increase verbal interaction Improve sitting and/or standing balance Activity Focus Psychosocial The Challenge The group must construct a tunnel made from Toobeez. Preparation Time 5 minutes Materials 1 or more Toobeez set(s) 6’ or 8’ tables chairs […]
A Math Riddle: Euler‘s Formula
Through systematic observation and deductive reasoning, the group should be able to define an equation that is valid for any convex polyhedron (Euler’s formula).
Contractor‘s Crisis
The class should be able to build a three-story house model according to specified requirements and calculate the money required to wallpaper and carpet all the rooms
Math Hot Potato
The student groups should attempt to answer all the sample problems in a timely manner. Likewise, they should seek to learn from other groups by challenging them to answer problems their group finds too challenging.
Proving Probability
Each group must prove the validity of probability using the ball bucket experiment.
Pythagorean Puzzler
Each group will construct right triangles using Toobeez and learn to predict side lengths of triangles using the Pythagorean theorem.
You Sank My Battleshape
Each group must try to “sink” the opposing team’s Toobeez battleshapes using knowledge of the Cartesian plane system.
Toobeez Obstacle Course
Move through the obstacle course following this pattern – over, under, under, over. Collect one 11” tube each time you pass through the obstacle course. After all the 11”tubes are collected, construct a square out of the collected tubes and spheres.
Straw Soccer
Holding the straw in your lips, blow the ping pong ball into the other player’s goal to score as many points as possible!
Catch!
Toss the bean bag (or if you are really good, a Toobeez sphere) back and forth without dropping it!
Toobeez Timer
The child will independently identify how many tasks he/she must complete before a specified amount of time has passed.
Letter Pond
Catch the letters that are swimming in the pond and match them to the letter cards held in each player’s hands. The first one to match all of the letters wins!
Clone
Copy a design using the visual and tactile systems. No auditory instructions will be provided.
Toobeez Tangrams
Without seeing the other person, connect the Toobeez and build the same exact design. One person gives directions and the other person follows auditory instructions only.
Time Machine
In this time machine activity participants will share their past, current and future recreational interests and explore the value that recreation has had in their lives.
Quiet Corner
The child is challenged to identify times during tasks (or in his/her daily routine) when “quiet time” is needed to regroup and reorganize.
Musical Squares
Listen to the music that is playing. When the music stops, move your body into one of the squares. You must find a different square each time the music stops.
Stick Switch
Stick switch is an activity in which participants should be making eye contact when they are ready to toss and catch so they are aware it is their turn. Have the receiving participant say “ready” when he or she is prepared to receive the toss
BlastOff!
Float through outer space by following the path. Once you reach a station, catch or blast as many meteors as you can.
Wicked Wands
Balancing & Flexibility Techniques For Children: Students will use various balancing and flexibility techniques with their wands.
Bodacious Pool
Bodacious pool is a fun activity for children that helps improve co-ordination and problem-solving skills.
Obstacle Organism
Improve balance and flexibility in children with Obstacle Organism - a fun activity for children that fosters teamwork in them.
Plyo-Jump
Stretching Exercises For Children: Students will use agility and plyometric exercises to jump over the Toobeez “river.”
Speed-Beez
Stretching Exercises For Children: Have students weave in and out of the tubes in a “figure eight” pattern.
Skill Shooter
Cooperation Building Activities: Continue with this activity until all pairs of students have participated.
Limbo Rock
Stretching Exercises for School Children: Students will Limbo beneath the Toobeez tube as low as possible.
Laser Maze
Stretching Exercises For Children: Like a mouse, move from one end to the other of the Laser Maze without touching the shapes and/or tubes.
Stretch-O-Mania
Stretching Exercises For Children: This activity will help students to increase their flexibility over the course of the school year.
Crazy Eights
Engaging Activities For Students: Students will be able to demonstrate horizontal wand twirling.
Spell-eez
Engaging Activities For Students: Teams of students will practice spelling words to move members through the obstacle course to score points.
Paragraph Plan
Motivating School Children: Using the Toobeez, students can construct their own Toobeez house & label the house using sentences from their sample paragraph.
Conversation Carwash
Group Activities For Children: With a partner, have students select a unique quotation line from a classroom novel and record it on a piece of paper.
Anything Goes
Group Activities For Children: Students will write a short story from creative ideas they imagine and develop from a prompt built from Toobeez.
The Rhyming Tree
Motivating School Children: Discuss if and why students like rhyme in poems. Ask students, “What role does rhyme play in a poem?”
The Double Diamond
Fun Activities For Students: Analyze two stories to determine both similar and differing elements between the stories.
Mount Plot Peak
Student Participation Activities: Using the Toobeez, students are going to construct a mountain plot line to represent the story events in The Wizard of Oz.
Sentence Switchers
Teamwork Students Activities: Groups will identify complete subjects, complete predicates, simple subjects and simple predicates.
How To-beez
Engaging Activities For Students: Allow students to revise the poorly-written directions to improve the instructions for building the structure.
Succinct Summaries
Fun Activities For Students: Without revealing the answers, guide students through deciding between details and main events.
