Teamwork Lesson 1 Week 1

V OBJECTIVE.
I Your objective should include a verb that accords with the level of Blooms Taxonomy you want your
students to reach this lesson..
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I SWBAT identify the different elements of teamwork through a housebuilding activity.
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I Key Points: What will my students know and what will they be able to do as a result of this lesson? Essential
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G What ‘big
question’ will
this lesson get
students
closer to
answering?
This question
might remain
the same for a
unit or short
sequence of
lessons.
e.g – Why did
Indian people
want
Independence
?

What:

Identify: To find
Teamwork: The skill of working in a team effectively

How:

1. Take the things given and design a house

2. Build the house on paper in anyway you like (in groups of 5)
3. What things do you notice in the way you worked to build
the house? Did you find any problem? Did you finish on
time? Why? Why not?

Why: Team work increases the productivity and helps us reach our goals
faster. Hence it is important to understand how to work in teams.
LESSON ASSESSMENT.
Describe, briefly, what students will do to show you that they have mastered (or made progress toward) the
objective. (this could be oral, written or project based)

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 Success Criteria:

1. Planning
2. Helping each other
3. Discussion and participation
4. Execution
5. Presentation

Literacy: What literacy standards will this lesson reinforce? What will be explicitly taught? VOCABU
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Choose 3-5
words that you
will explicitly
teach

Identifying Activity
Teamwork
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Teacher Actions Student Actions

Attention Grabber

Behavior narration

Do you like working alone or in teams? Why? ESR: I like working alone because I
do not want anyone to interfere in
my work.

I like working in teams because I

can get help from others

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 Today we are going to make a house and find out
what the different elements of teamwork are.

Introduce the Keypoints

So I am going to give you the materials to build

the house and you are going to make the house in
5 minutes. You have to do this in groups of 5.

Teacher distributes the materials to the different Students take the materials.
groups. (Paper and ice cream sticks)

Step 2: How will my students use their prior knowledge to generate possible solutions?

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Attention Grabber

Behavior narration

You can take a minute to think about how Students take a minute to think about
you are going to design the house. designing the house.

Step 3: How will my students explore and gather information? How will I present information to them?

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min
Teacher Actions Student Actions

Attention Grabber

Behavior narration

Teacher monitors the task after saying Students spend time building the house
Start using paper and ice cream sticks.

Step 4: How will my students organize and interpret information?

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Teacher Actions Student Actions 6

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 What things do you notice in the Students take 2 minutes to think n
way you worked to build the about the answers to these questions
house? Did you find any problem?
Did you finish on time? Why? Why
not?

TPS: with your partner (2 Students share the responses with

minutes) their partner.

Some students share their responses

Large group sharing (2 min) with the large group (2 min)

Step 5: How will my students apply, present and evaluate their findings?

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min
Teacher Actions Student Actions

Transition to Shalem’s element: Students prepare themselves for

the transition?
Shalem is going to talk and discuss with you
how this is related to teamwork: