Details
Pages
2 Pages
Subject
ELA, History/Social Studies, Science
Product
Digital
Grade
6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Resource Type
Activities, Cooperative Learning, Lesson Plans
Description
Get your students communicating and working in teams more effectively! Lead students through a set of activities to get them thinking about and practicing collaborative skills. By the end of this lesson students should be able to describe what collaboration looks like, be more effective communicators, design norms for guiding group work, and discuss the benefits of cooperative learning.
This lesson is appropriate for both middle and high school students across most subject areas. It can work for student teams of 2 to 6 people, although 3-4 is optimal.
Provided in the downloads is a set of 20 google slides and a sheet of images needed during the lesson. The slides consist of teacher only instructions and student facing ones that are easily customizable or ready to use as is. The lesson begins and ends with students thinking about the central focus question of how they can work more cohesively to accomplish team tasks. Then through group reflections, video (provided via a link, if it does not work, please let me know and I will find a substitute for you), data, and a fun team challenge students witness and experience collaborative behavior and eventually build their own agreed upon team norms they can use as a principal guide for all other team activities.
This lesson can take 30-50 minutes based on how much group talk and whole class discussion time is provided to students. The pace can be picked up or slowed down where you would like students to think more deeply. Also provided is an optional assignment individual students can turn in for credit. At the close of this lesson, students will have a living set of standards they can use for all other group work they participate in. It can be revised based on their experiences PLUS, it's a great tool for self reflection and evaluation. Students can also build a new set of standards or norms when they form new groups, therefore allowing students to continually build upon and their skills.
This lesson is appropriate for both middle and high school students across most subject areas. It can work for student teams of 2 to 6 people, although 3-4 is optimal.
Provided in the downloads is a set of 20 google slides and a sheet of images needed during the lesson. The slides consist of teacher only instructions and student facing ones that are easily customizable or ready to use as is. The lesson begins and ends with students thinking about the central focus question of how they can work more cohesively to accomplish team tasks. Then through group reflections, video (provided via a link, if it does not work, please let me know and I will find a substitute for you), data, and a fun team challenge students witness and experience collaborative behavior and eventually build their own agreed upon team norms they can use as a principal guide for all other team activities.
This lesson can take 30-50 minutes based on how much group talk and whole class discussion time is provided to students. The pace can be picked up or slowed down where you would like students to think more deeply. Also provided is an optional assignment individual students can turn in for credit. At the close of this lesson, students will have a living set of standards they can use for all other group work they participate in. It can be revised based on their experiences PLUS, it's a great tool for self reflection and evaluation. Students can also build a new set of standards or norms when they form new groups, therefore allowing students to continually build upon and their skills.
Get your students communicating and working in teams more effectively! Lead students through a set of activities to get them thinking about and practicing collaborative skills. By the end of this lesson students should be able to describe what collaboration... more
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