Subject(s): Language Arts, Other, Social Studies Grades(s): Grades 6-7, Grades 2-3, Grades 4-5

By – Marie Allen

Community Unit Table of Contents:

• Unit Overview – What makes a good Community?
• This lesson asks What is Community?
• Here’s a lesson on Following Directions
• This worksheet goes with the Following Directions lesson
• Celebrating Diversity and Heritage are the topics of this lesson
• Here’s a section on Goal Setting
• This lesson looks at Community in Literature
• In this part students Explore the Multiple Intelligences
• Students find their most effective ways to learn in this lesson
• Teamwork is the subject of this lesson
• Here’s a collection of Community-Building Activities
• This is the first part of the Service Project
• Service Project Part 2…
• …and Service Project Part 3
• Here’s the Service Project Rubric

Teamwork lesson

Subject: Math

TSW: Demonstrate an understanding of how to cooperate with others to accomplish a goal.

Standards:

2M-E1. Construct, read, analyze, and interpret tables, charts, graphs and data plots

PO 2. Interpret and analyze data from graphical representations and draw simple conclusions from bar graphs

Activities:

Paperclip gum challenge. Working in their learning teams (4-5 students), each team will be handed a paper bag containing the following items: a piece of chewing gum, a piece of paper, 10 paperclips, a piece of string, and five circular stickers. Give them five minutes to make the longest object, without talking at all. Afterwards, have students use a tape measure to measure their object. Graph results on board. Look at the longest, shortest, and middle (median). Discuss what was easy and what was hard about creating their object. How did they communicate? What would they have done differently?

Materials: 2 packs chewing gum, 70 paperclips, ball of string, and 30-35 circular stickers

Assessment: Student journal reflection on above questions and what they learned about working together.

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