Once your teacher tells you this activity you might think there is no way you can untangle yourself without letting go!
In this activity, that’s what you’re going to try to do – as a team you will become a human knot and you will need to untangle yourselves.
You’ll have to believe you can, communicate well and help each other.
1/ Standing in a circle, everyone takes the hand of two different people across the circle from them. The human knot is now tied.
2/ You must now untangle the human knot without letting go of any of the hands until you end up back in a circle again.
3/ You’ll have to work together to figure out the best way to untangle yourselves.
To complete this challenge:
You had to work as a team to undo the human knot that had been made.
You then had to think on your feet, changing and trying different solutions as needed.
What impact did the time pressure have on decision making and problem solving?
What does this tell you about problem solving? Is it best done at speed, under pressure or better done calmly and with no time pressures?