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Justice and Kindness Play a Part: King Day

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers recognize injustice in the world. For this social justice lesson, students discuss the responsibility they have to be advocates for justice and kindness and identify a time when they felt they were treated unfairly.
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Scooter Ships

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore simple physics concepts such as push/pull, friction, and speed. In this physics/physical education lesson plan, students work in co-operative groups to "build" a spaceship out of scooters and folded mats. Teams...
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TE Activity: Environmental Interactions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students design a web that shows the interactions between the living and non-living parts of the environment. They determine what an environment is and how engineers work together to solve problems. They complete a tally chart that they...
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Working Together

For Teachers K
Students sit back to back with their legs straight out in front. They interlock arms and push against each other's backs to try to stand up. They discuss things they can do on their own and what kinds of things we need others to help.
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Survivor Island Field Day

For Teachers K - 6th
Students are given the opportunity to use the teamwork and leadership skills they learned in our cooperative learning unit in a real situation. They participate in relays, races, and rope challenges to showcase their ability to work with...
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Prototype Production

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a product out of concrete. In this concrete lesson plan, students also demonstrate safety when using the tools provided.
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Teen Spirit

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students examine the attributes of teamwork. In this current events lesson, students compare and contrast gangs with teams. Students conduct their own school gang audit and discuss the implications of violence.
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Hike Preparation

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine hiking preparation.  In this hiking lesson plan students plan and pack a bag for a day hike, explore wildlife safety, and investigate the teamwork involved in a group hike.
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Mine Field Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars discuss what it means to work together as a team. In this social science lesson, students examine community and that community represents having people depend on each other. Young scholars then role play what it is like to...
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Teamwork and Leadership

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students complete activities as an analysis of leadership, teamwork, and community service. In this teamwork and leadership lesson, students discuss teamwork and read an example of it. Students participate in a teamwork building activity...
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Teamwork Poster

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
In this character education poster worksheet, students read the teamwork caption and examine the picture the exemplifies teamwork.
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Pass it Around

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars participate in body awareness activities by lying in a large circle and passing a ball. In this body awareness instructional activity, students lie in a large circle and pass a ball in multiple fashions to improve their...
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We the Past

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners study philanthropy related terms and philanthropy in the United States and their local community. In this philanthropy lesson, students study pictures of present and past Americans and discuss their philanthropic acts. Learners...
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Functioning as a Team

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work as a team to build a freestanding bridge from newspapers and masking tape and analyze the effectiveness of their group. In this teamwork lesson, students view and summarize a video on Service Learning Projects. Students...
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Team Handball

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students play a team sport. In this team handball lesson, students review the rules of the court and how to pass the ball. Students practice two types of passing and play a game of handball.
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Group Alignment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners discuss proper ways to work in a group. In this character education instructional activity, students identify the vocabulary words "inclusion" and "exclusion" and create a list of ways to respect others in a group setting.
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Team Handball

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students learn to play a team sport. In this handball lesson, students review passing the ball and practice a crossing drill while defenders try to steal the ball. Students review what they have learned.
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The Blob- Tag Game

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a tag game called "The Blob." In this physical education lesson, students select a peer to be "it" and tag someone. When a person it tagged, he joins the person who is "it" by holding hands. The students...
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Sharing Beauty Through Song

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform a song for their school community. In this music instructional activity, students sing the philanthropic song See Me Beautiful by Red Grammar and reflect upon the lyrics. Students perform the song for their school...
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Rolling in Dough

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students demonstrate how to work cooperatively in groups. In this philanthropy lesson, students work cooperatively to create play dough and are rewarded time to play with the play dough cooperatively.
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Westward Ho!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils participate in an Oregon Trail simulation in order to learn the hardships that the emigrating settlers faced. In this U.S. history lesson plan, students are required to work as a team and use the internet to research a final...
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Challenge Courses

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Pupils engage in and invent a variety of organized outdoor play activities to encourage cooperation and motor development. For this outdoor activities lesson, students are divided into three groups and organized in lines. Pupils play...
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Conversation Starters

For Students 1st
In this basic present simple verbs worksheet, 1st graders, working in teams of two or four, ask a set of questions in order to complete a graph on a variety of information to fill in a type of "information gap" chart.
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Which is the Biggest?

For Students 1st
For this conversation worksheet, 1st graders, working with a partner, team up to discuss forty various different categories of people and things to see which one of them are the biggest using comparative and superlative terms.