Cooperation

Teamwork and collaboration are such important skills to foster in young children. The goal of this instructional activity is for teams to create a collaborative project while learning how to work as a unit. In small groups, the class...

Students determine the identity of a vegetable, either real or fake, and examine where the it grows. Next, they sort the vegetable by classifying them into different groups. They listen to and retell Heather Forest's, Stone Soup before...

Teach learners how to communicate and collaborate in a discussion on a shared project with this rich activity. It asks participants to channel their unique imaginations to produce a fictional "groupworld", while adhering to proper...

Conduct the cooperative learning strategy, carousel brainstorming, with the help of a step-by-step plan for implementation. Scholars work collaboratively to think of, and write, information and thoughts that come to mind when discussing...

Teach everyone how to work together in both physical education and music activities. Parents and their children are shown a presentation that highlights the philosophy of cooperation. They apply these concepts to their physical education...

Are you planning to have a guest speaker talk to your class? Prepare in advance and help your class transform into an engaged and thoughtful audience. Before the visit, young writers work cooperatively to brainstorm what they want to...

Learners examine the character traits of courage, cooperation, friendship, and courtesy. They develop a graph of student pets, listen to books about pigs, complete various graphic organizers, identify causes and effects for the book "If...

Young scholars learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students find out how partners can help run a race just as Wanda learns that survival on the coral reef often depends on cooperation.

Students determine how they can cooperate with their classmates.  In this cooperation lesson, students read books on cooperation, brainstorm ways they can cooperate in the classroom and on the playground, and draw pictures of how they...