Lesson 190: Working together

🟡 SOCIAL STUDIES (40 Lessons) • 🟣 D. Responsibility and Citizenship

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Objective

I can tell what it means to work together and give simple examples of sharing jobs, taking turns, and helping my team.

Materials

Mini-lesson — What does it mean to work together?

When we work together, we are part of a team. A team is a group of people who help each other with the same job.

Teamwork at home

  • Everyone helps tidy the living room.
  • One person collects toys, another person wipes the table.
  • People talk kindly and share jobs.

Teamwork at school

  • Group projects where everyone has a small job.
  • Taking turns with markers, glue, or blocks.
  • Listening to the group plan and following it.

How teams work well

  • Share jobs so one person does not do everything.
  • Take turns speaking and using materials.
  • Listen to each other's ideas.
  • Encourage each other with kind words.

Teamwork feelings

  • Working together can feel faster and more fun.
  • People can feel included when they have a job.
  • Sometimes we disagree, but we can still stay kind.

In this lesson, we practise small, everyday teamwork: sharing jobs, taking turns, and helping each other.

Picture strip: Three children working together

Guided Practice — Teamwork plan

You will make a simple teamwork plan that shows how people can share jobs.

  1. Think of a small job you could do with others, such as tidying a room, setting the table, or cleaning up art supplies.
  2. Draw a big circle on your page. At the top, write or trace "Our teamwork plan".
  3. Inside the circle, draw three small people. Under each person, write or trace a job, such as "pick up toys", "put books away", or "wipe table".
  4. With an adult, turn your jobs into a sentence, such as "When we work together, we finish faster."
  5. Under the picture, write or trace: "Working together means we share jobs."
  6. Read your teamwork plan aloud to an adult. Ask, "Which job could I try first?"
  7. If possible, try your small teamwork job with family or classmates and notice how it feels to work together.
Tracing Pad
Tracing snapshot for print
Tip: Say a full sentence as you trace, such as "My team can work together."

Practice — Is this good teamwork?

Use short stories to talk about good teamwork and not-so-good teamwork in a gentle way.

  1. With an adult, think of three short stories. For example, "Four children are cleaning the art table" or "Two friends are building a tower".
  2. For each story, first tell what happens. The adult can act it out or draw a quick picture.
  3. Ask, "Is this good teamwork or not?" and explain why. Look for sharing jobs, taking turns, and listening.
  4. If the teamwork is not good, say one way to change it into better teamwork, such as sharing blocks or using kind words.
  5. At the end, say one sentence that starts with "Good teamwork looks like…" and finish it with your own idea.

Quick Check — Working together

Answer each question about working together. These questions check simple ideas only.

1) What does it mean to work together?

Working together means helping with the same job as a team.

2) Which is a good example of teamwork?

Sharing and building together is teamwork.

3) What helps a team work well?

Taking turns and listening are key teamwork skills.

4) Your class is cleaning the reading corner. What is a good teamwork choice?

Sharing jobs makes cleaning faster and kinder.

5) How can you be a good team member during a group project?

Good teammates do their job and listen to others.

6) How might working together feel?

Teamwork can make jobs feel easier and more fun.

7) Your group has one pair of scissors. What is a teamwork choice?

Taking turns with materials shows teamwork.

8) What can you say to a teammate who is trying hard?

Encouraging words help the team feel strong.

9) Why is it important for everyone on the team to have a job?

Sharing jobs helps everyone belong and helps the team finish.

10) Which sentence shows you understand this lesson?

Sharing jobs and listening are big parts of teamwork.

Assessment (parent/teacher)

Exit ticket (student)

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