Inquiry Challenge

One of our inquiry challenges we have completed is the Newspaper Challenge. In groups of around three the children had to construct a tower that was taller than the book shelf using only newspaper. First we had a go doing the challenge with our buddy class. Only one group succeeded. The following day we had another go as a class. It was interesting to see who replicated the successful designs from the day before, who persevered with the challenge, who worked with others to problem solve or worked alone and beside their group member, and who lost interest and didn't persevere. We had a good discussion afterwards about what made it a challenge and the nature of challenges.