Students experience what it is like to depend on a group for their safety and to accomplish a goal. They increase their need for interdependence and cooperation in building relationships. Students need to explore the effective...

Teamwork is the focus of this lesson. By discussing what teamwork means, learners begin to explore this topic. There are a series of slides focusing on the behavior of geese that highlight leadership and teamwork skills.

Based on the bestselling series, this worksheet details seven habits of highly defective teens, and prompts young learners to consider their own social and emotional tendencies. What kinds of experiences do your pupils have...

Students celebrate the summer by preparing a picnic together. In this early childhood lesson plan, students word together to prepare a picnic and develop fine motor and cooperative skills.

Two lessons encourage young scholars to take safety precautions while riding a bicycle. First, learners practice hand signals used to tell others on the road where they are going. Second, pupils decorate a helmet to make a safe...

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.

Students learn the game of team handball. In this cooperative games lesson plan, students examine the history, the rules, and the roles of players in order to participate in team handball.

Students work in groups to complete challenges. In this cooperation, endurance and strength lesson, students complete challenges from their Survivor Challenge Task Card and when complete, do the closing challenge together.

Students explore tableaux.  In this social studies and fine arts cross curriculum instructional activity, students work in groups of four to create "frozen" stage pictures (tableaux) representing vocabulary and concepts from a "From...

Individuals each select a healthy habit to explain and demonstrate with the rest of the class. They are assigned a partner to evaluate and videotape them, but they will create their own class presentation. The document includes a peer...

Bystander or upstander and advocate? Three lessons have high schoolers investigating data about bullying and school safety. Participants then learn how to take a stand against bullying and use what they have learned to create a PSA to...

For this career lesson, students take a look at the qualities a person must possess in order to be considered a "cooperative person." Students make a record of daily activities showing responsibility at school and home for a one week...

Students engage in and invent a variety of organized outdoor play activities to encourage cooperation and motor development. In this outdoor activities lesson, students are divided into three groups and organized in lines. Students play...

Children participate in several relay games in small groups.  In this creating outdoor relay races lesson, students develop motor skills and engage in activities that encourage teamwork and creative thinking.  Students...

Students explore the human body by participating in physical activities. In this physical education instructional activity, students demonstrate their physical prowess and motor skills by performing tasks such as climbing and rope tying....

Middle schoolers practice cooperative learning skills by finding a solution to the group's "knot."

Although designed for a foods lab, the information in this resource might be just the thing for your own recipe notebook. Illustrated, step-by-step directions for making the perfect omelet, egg-citing puzzles, games, and even...

Energy comes in many forms, but how do living things get the energy they need to survive and thrive? In a simple, controlled experiment with yeast, water, and sugar, groups make observations about how yeast reacts with water alone, then...

Should bottled water be sold in schools, or should they only provide tap water? The summative unit in the six-part series encourages scholars debating this topic. The lessons teach how to build an argument, how to gain background...

Students 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.

Students use a ball to improve their dribbling skills, defensive and offensive strategies, cardiovascular fitness, and cooperation. For this ball handling lesson, students try to grab the ball and trap it from their partner. Partners try...

Pupils play a cooperative game.  For this health and fitness lesson, students organize a ball game and keep score. Pupils get into groups and try to make it to around all bases.

Students perform various locomotor skills while practicing cooperative teamwork. In this locomotor skill lesson, students move from "island" to "island" using the designated motor skill. Imaginative components such as escaping a "shark"...