When we have a full week of classes our block schedule runs A, B, A, B, Traditional, so today I saw all of my students. Each class is 41 minutes–just enough time to conduct the marshmallow challenge.
The challenge is a great activity to promote team building and collaboration. Students can use up to 20 spaghetti sticks, 1 yard of string and masking tape and 1 marshmallow mounted at the top. As one would expect some groups collaborated well and a few students were not fully engaged.
Here are the tallest structures from each class.
Period 5 standard
Period 8 standard
Period 9 pre-algebra
180 days of math post-its 
Looks like you had a nice first week! I might use your graphing activity later this month as we start to work on writing stories from graphs. Thanks for sharing!
It took a bit of time for my students to realize that graphs can tell stories. Yet I was impressed with one student who asked me if this was similar to cause and effect. He was making connections on his own! I hope the activity goes well for you too!