This our 3rd-5th grade students discussed and practiced cooperation. Student began by sharing their thoughts on what cooperation means. Everyone agreed that cooperation was working together as a team to accomplish a goal. Students then played a Taboo Themed Card Game where I wrote words on a note card. Students goal was to work in partners to get the opposing team to guess the word written at the top of the card. Students couldn't say any word, or part of a word that is on the card, which was the only rule.
We discussed the activity and learned that there were skills necessary to cooperate such as: Listening to what the partner was saying and even body language; focusing your attention, using prior knowledge about friends and the topic to provide clues, and problem-solving. Students couldn't say the most obvious clue words. We also discussed when we are expected to cooperate and the difference between giving someone an answer versus clues so that they could stretch their thinking and learn something too. We are asked to cooperate everyday at school, at home as a family, and in traffic to navigate our community safely. I also stressed that cooperation is life-skill and everyone's skills, experience and perspective play in an important part in accomplishing any goal. Comments are closed.
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