---
title: Teamwork
description: Students will create a comic to illustrate how a group created a task together.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/teamwork-001-2.png
---

**Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)**

**Lesson Length: 1 - 2 hours**

**Topic: Collaboration, Belonging**

**Grade Level: 1, 2, 3**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [CASEL: RELATIONSHIP SKILLS](https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-is-the-casel-framework/#interactive-casel-wheel)

**Brief Description:**  Students will illustrate how a group completed a task together.

**Know Before You Start:** Students should be able to define the terms teamwork and collaboration, and understand the benefits of working as a team.

**Hook:**

- Ask students: 
    - “What does teamwork look like and sound like?”
    - “How can you solve a problem if your team has a disagreement?”

**Activity:**

- Have students discuss what teamwork looks like and sounds like. Record their responses on an anchor chart. 
- Arrange students into groups of 3 or 4 to participate in a relay race.
- Explain the directions for the relay race and how the groups will create a comic afterward to show how they completed the race.
- Have students reflect on how their team cooperated during the relay race and connect their experience back to the terms collected on the anchor chart.  
    - Ask questions such as: 
          - Were you able to complete the relay race?
          - What did you learn about your team after the race?
          - What did you learn about yourself as a team player?
          - How did your team communicate with one another?
          - Were there any disagreements that happened? How did you solve the problem so your team could continue with the race?
          - Did you select a leader? Was there anyone who naturally became the leader of your team? What actions did that person take as the leader? 
- Have students create a comic that showcases how their team completed the relay race together.

**Closure:**

- Have students reflect on which collaboration skills they may be able to improve in themselves.
- Students will share their comics with the whole class or in small groups.
- Explain the importance of working together to complete tasks and how it helps you build skills like listening, collaboration, leadership and building trusting relationships with one another.

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
- Allow students to use the voiceover to read their comics aloud.
- Allow students to sketch or write about their teamwork experience using the First, Next, Then, and Last sequence organizer to prepare for creating the comic.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/q0xz8tc).
- [Sequence Chart](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_09.pdf)
- Books: 
    - We Are Better Together by Bill McKibben
    - The Way Champs Play by Naomi Osaka
    - Stone Soup by Jon J Muth
- Videos: 
    - [The Power of Teamwork](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCQg0gMhvOU) by Cathleen Halls
    - [4 Things We Learn from Teamwork](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag1V76oBMkM) by Rocket Kids
    - [Top 10 Relay Ideas Super Fun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BztHoDYevGY) by PhysEdGames

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