Belmont Ridge’s Amazing Race
Teacher Copy
7th Grade
Prior to the team building activity, eighth block teachers will need to have grouped their students into teams of four. Please try to group your students so that only SWAT students are together, FBI students are together, and CIA students are together. Each group of students will be starting out at a different station, based on their 8th block class.
Each station will have envelopes with a challenge and envelopes with a clue.
At the beginning of the activity, the eighth block teacher will give each team a race sheet and the following instructions:
As a team you will be competing in Belmont Ridge’s version of the “Amazing Race.” Each team will need to take with them a pencil and their race sheet. At the successful completion of a challenge, you will have the teacher sign off on your race sheet, and you will be given a clue to the location of your next challenge. There may be more than one possible location for each station. The team needs to choose the location that the majority of their team would go to answer the question on the clue.
It is a “race.” However, when in the building, you may not run. At the end of the challenge, each team will give the Dean their results. The cooperative group from each team of seventh grade students that has successfully completed the majority of the challenges will win a reward. In addition to a small group challenge, we will be tallying up points for a grade level team challenge. Good luck and have fun!
Stations
Station 1:L.A. (Materials: Children’s Story Book; Story Line)
Challenge: With your team, read a children’s book and do a story line.
Clue: Where do things, “not visible,” become visible? (Science)
Station 2: Science (Materials: Brown and Green Yarn; Organelles)
Challenge: As a team, place the appropriate organelles into the type of cell they belong
in. Write a brief description about what the organelles do.
Clue: Where in the school would you go to learn about events that are messy? (History)
Station 3: History (Materials: Map; Coordinates for Hawaii, Cuba, Philippines, and
Panama Canal)
Challenge: Use the following coordinates to locate four places in the world that you will
be learning about in the near future.
Clue: The school musical is performed here. (Auditorium)
Station 4: Auditorium/Resource (Materials: Four Warned Puzzle)
Challenge: Four Warned
Clue: Where would you go if you were worried about something and needed someone to
talk to? (Guidance Office)
Station 5: Guidance Office
Challenge: Write down ten feelings that you may experience throughout the day.
Clue: Where would you go in the building if you wanted to know what time it was in
Tokyo, Japan? (Library)
Station 6: Library (Materials: Variety of books to locate)
Challenge: Write down the name of the following two books.
Clue: In this location you work on solving equations. (Math)
Station 7: Math (Materials: Logic Puzzle and Pieces)
Challenge: Logic Puzzle
Clue: You come here first, before you go to the Nurses office. (House Office)
Station 8: House Office (Materials: Brain Teaser)
Challenge: Solve this brain teaser: Car, tricycle, scooter, and wheelbarrow. What is
special about this group?
Clue: Where might you become in “tune” with yourself? (Band/Chorus)
Station 9: Band/Chorus
Challenge:
Clue: Where would you run a mile? (Track)
Station 10: Track
Challenge: As a team, complete the distance of 1 mile.
Clue: Your store your belongings in this during the day. (Locker Area)
Station 11: Locker Area
Challenge: Solve the following math problem to locate and open one of the lockers.
Your next clue will be waiting inside the locker for you.
Clue: In this classroom, you learn about advertising strategies. (Communications)
Station 12: Communications
Challenge:
Clue: Yum, Yum, Yum or Build, Build, Build (FACS or Tech)
Station 13: FACS or Tech
Challenge:
Clue: Freak the Mighty (LA)