Progression Pipes

• One piece of construction or cardstock paper per student

• Ping pong, golf balls or 1/2 sheets of white paper crumpled into tight balls and secured with tape

• tape 

• scissors

• This website has photos of students engaged in the activity

Pipeline provides participants an opportunity to plan and communicate as a team, learn how to overcome difficulties together, and make changes to the original plan in order to complete a task.

1. Provide a large area of the classroom for students to spread out.

2. Divide participants into 2-3 smaller groups. 

3. Give each group a ball and a stack of construction or cardstock, a roll of tape, and a pair of scissors.

4. Give participants five minutes to plan how they will get the ball from one side of the designated area to the other, following these rules:

• The ball may not touch the ground at any time

• No one may touch the ball at any time once it enters the designated area

• Each person must be involved in the process of moving the ball

• If any of these rules are broken, the group must start over

5.  Close the activity with a verbal or written debrief using a few of the questions from the Stage 4 Debrief Prompts.