At a Glance:
| Grades: | 1, 2, 3 |
|---|---|
| Subject: | SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) |
| Topic: | Collaboration, Belonging |
| Lesson Length: | 1 - 2 hours |
Standards / Framework:
What will students learn in this activity?
Students will illustrate how a group completed a task together.
What should students know before this activity?
Students should be able to define the terms teamwork and collaboration, and understand the benefits of working as a team.
How can teachers introduce this lesson?
- Ask students:
- “What does teamwork look like and sound like?”
- “How can you solve a problem if your team has a disagreement?”
What will students do?
- 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?
- Ask questions such as:
- Have students create a comic that showcases how their team completed the relay race together.
How can teachers wrap up the lesson?
- 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.
How can teachers differentiate this activity?
- 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.
Related Resources:
- Comic to print or display: Comic.
- Sequence Chart
- 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 by Cathleen Halls
- 4 Things We Learn from Teamwork by Rocket Kids
- Top 10 Relay Ideas Super Fun by PhysEdGames
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