Friday, March 31, 2017

April Social Skills Lesson

Cooperation and Team Building


Students in grades K-5 will be learning about cooperation and team building this month. We will be discussing what it means to be a team player and how it is important to cooperate with your classmates. Students will be coming up with characteristics of a good team player. 

Videos about teamwork:
K-1 video:

2-5 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iayUeiP2gM

What does a good team player...?
  • Look like
  • Do
  • Say
  • Does not do
After we discuss what it means to be a good team player, students will be broken up into small groups. They will be working together as a team to build with paper cups. The expectation will be to build the tallest tower of cups without it falling down. Students will be making a plan and working together in groups of 4 or 5 to build their tower. 

We will be wrapping up with questions on how their team worked together.

Questions:
  1. Was anyone frustrated at all during this activity? If so how was it handled?
  2. Why was teamwork so important for this activity?
  3. Are you ever in a situation where you must use teamwork? Is this always easy for you? Why or why not?
  4. What are some skills needed to be a good at teamwork?
  5. What is so hard about teamwork?
  6. What did you do today to contribute to the teamwork on your team?



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