💛 SELGrade 3Lesson 33
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Team Kindness Project
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Learning Objectives
- 1Plan and carry out a team kindness challenge with family or friends
- 2Explain how empathy and teamwork together create a bigger positive impact than either could alone
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Mini Lesson
Welcome to unit E — Growing Together. In this final unit you will take what you have learned across the whole course and apply it in real, outward-facing ways. We begin with a Team Kindness Project: a planned, deliberate act of kindness carried out with at least one other person.
Why team kindness is more powerful than solo kindness
- When two or more people plan and act together, the impact is larger — more hands complete more work, and the shared intention strengthens the effect.
- Working with someone else on a kind act also deepens your relationship with that person — shared purpose builds connection.
- A team kindness project demonstrates every skill you have learned: empathy (understanding what someone needs), cooperation (working together), communication (planning and sharing), and resilience (following through even when it takes effort).
What makes a kindness project meaningful
- It is specific — a targeted act for a real person or group, not a vague intention.
- It requires effort — something you actually have to plan and do, not something that happens by accident.
- It is noticed by the recipient — the person or group it is aimed at can feel the care behind it.
- It reflects your values — it comes from something you genuinely believe matters.
Ideas for a team kindness challenge
- Write and deliver thank-you notes to three people in your home or neighborhood.
- Make a care package for a family member who has been having a hard time.
- Tidy a shared space in your home without being asked, as a gift to your family.
- Prepare a meal or snack for your family together and serve it with a kind message.
- Create and share something — a drawing, a card, a short story — that celebrates someone important to you.
Team Kindness Challenge — what to do
- Choose your team. Work with at least one other person — a family member, sibling, or friend. Decide together.
- Choose your act. Pick one specific kindness act from the ideas above, or create your own. It must be targeted at a real person or group, require genuine effort, and reflect something you value.
- Plan it. On your paper worksheet, write down: Who is your team? Who is your act for? What exactly will you do? When will you do it?
- Do it. Carry out the act together. Notice how it feels — both while you are doing it and after.
- Reflect. After completing the act, each team member writes two sentences: one describing what they did and one describing how it felt to do something kind together.
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Self-check: Who in your life could use a deliberate act of kindness from your team right now?
Vocabulary
Kindness
Care shown to others through helpful actions and wordse.g. Kindness can be as simple as a thank-you note.
Project
A planned set of actions with a clear purposee.g. Our project lasted one week.
Recipient
The person or group who receives the kind actione.g. My recipient was my grandmother.
Care package
A small bundle of useful or thoughtful items put together for someonee.g. I made a care package with a card and snacks.
Intentional
Done on purpose with thought, not by accidente.g. Intentional kindness is planned in advance.
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