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Cooperation and Team Building

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Young scholars explore ways to build cooperation and teamwork while serving as a leader. In this team building instructional activity, students define cooperation and identify ways a leader builds cooperation. Young scholars participate...
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Dragon's Jewels

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners play a game about dragons and jewels to learn cooperation, coordination, communication, and to have fun. In this dragons and jewels lesson plan, one group of knights guard the jewels, and one group of dragons try to get the jewels.
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Beat the Ball

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students play a cooperative game.  In this health and fitness instructional activity, students organize a ball game and keep score. Students get into groups and try to make it to around all bases.
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Pass-It-Back Relays: Children are aces at creating their own races.

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Children participate in several relay games in small groups.  In this creating outdoor relay races instructional activity, students develop motor skills and engage in activities that encourage teamwork and creative thinking.  Students...
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Lucky Guess (Group Tricks)

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students work in groups to complete movement activities. In this movement and cooperation lesson, students get into groups and complete movement band skill cards with varying levels of difficulty.
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Get Your Ball

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students use a ball to improve their dribbling skills, defensive and offensive strategies, cardiovascular fitness, and cooperation. In this ball handling lesson, students try to grab the ball and trap it from their partner. Partners try...
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Welcome to the Class

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read "The Brand New Kid" and identify the behaviors of a student who helps others with their work. In this conflict resolution lesson, students predict what will happen and how the problem will be resolved. Students discuss the...
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Picture-Go-Round: Philanthropy Lesson

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play a game. In this cooperation lesson, students are introduced to a game where they each take turns drawing a piece of a picture. They discuss how we can do different things when we work together and what the terms group,...
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Rolling in Dough

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make play dough. In this cooperation lesson, students practice working together in a group. Students work in small groups to make play dough. They discuss how they cooperated and how it was beneficial to completing the project.
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Smiles Change the World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students develop speaking and listening skills while evaluating a list. In this consensus lesson, students define consensus and discuss how it might be used at recess. After students understand how consensus works, students review and...
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Hug O' War

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss philanthropic behavior. In this philanthropy lesson, students read Shel Silverstein's Hug O' War and brainstorm ways of working together.
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FUN-damental movement!

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners move within the gymnasium area while working on color/shape recognition, change of speed and directional movements, and cooperation/teamwork. In this FUN-damental movement instructional activity, students work in partners on a...
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Community Cooperation

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students learn how members of communities work together. For this early childhood lesson plan, students explore their neighborhood and discover the people and places that comprise it.
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Challenge Courses

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students engage in and invent a variety of organized outdoor play activities to encourage cooperation and motor development. In this outdoor activities lesson plan, students are divided into three groups and organized in lines. Students...
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Adding "Homeside" to "Schoolside" Learning

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars participate in activities in order to improve their ability to work cooperatively in groups at school as well as with their family at home. They complete the activities at home with their family then discuss the results of...
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Cooperation Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars brainstorm a definition for the word cooperation. As a class, they participate in a game in which they try to avoid the taggers. In groups, they surround a tag classmate and help them get to safety. To end the...
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Sharing, caring

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students hear the story, "The Sand Castle" and answer a given set of questions. They discuss their answers and then perform a skit of the story, "The Sand Castle." Students practice and sing a new song about sharing and caring.
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Cooperation and Conflict Resolution

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a variety of activities designed to promote cooperation and positive conflict resolution. In cooperative groups, they create a comic strip or poster, play cooperative musical chairs, write a journal entry...
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Communicating at work: Building a successful team

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students work in teams, participate in the "Lifeboat Game." Discussion following the game helps students process the activity to realize teamwork skills they used to facilitate meeting their game goal. Students identify and relate the...
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in activities to increase teamwork and cooperation skills. They increase abdominal and leg strength through movement on a scooter. Students participate in games using scooters.
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Time, Talent, Treasure and Economics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work cooperatively to create a quilt. They choose a pattern and determine the specific skills and steps needed to produce that quilt. Labor is divided equally between group members and a quilt is created assembly line style....
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The IMF, Money, International Trade and Cooperation

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars study the role of the International Money Fund and develop an understanding of international trade. They investigate learning in a cooperative atmosphere.
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Puzzle Rectangles

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students work in small groups to complete a rectangle puzzle without any verbal communication or hand signals.
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IT'S PLAY TIME

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students focus on several objects which causes them to move in different directions during this outdoor activity.