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"What is cooperation?"
"What is cooperation?"
What does cooperation look like?
What does cooperation look like?
People who are working as a team and cooperating with each other:
- listen to each other without interrupting
- encourage everyone to join in
- are willing to hear and accept the ideas of others
- are willing to change roles in the group, eg. may be a leader sometimes and a follower at other times
- recognize the skills and strengths of others
- don't compete with each other
- discuss problems calmly
- show respect for each other
- take responsibility for their part of the task
- are willing to work towards the success of the group rather than their own individual success
Learn 360 - GPAEA Resource Options
Learn 360 - GPAEA Resource Options
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Cooperation: Harry & His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
Cooperation: Harry & His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
"Planning the best vacation ever is a little tricky when there are so many tastes to please, so Harry goes to Dino World to see if he can find inspiration there. With Nancy as their tour guide, Harry and his Dinosaurs manage to bathe on the beach, climb mountains and walk in the woods. The best time of all however, is had when the gang stumbles across a Happy House of fun. Realizing that cooperation and seeing everyone happy makes for the perfect vacation, Harry rushes home to tell Mom, Nana and Sam" (Learn 360).
Run time: 11:02 min.
Recommended K-2
Helpful Books in Hawthorne Library
Helpful Books in Hawthorne Library
All of the following books are available in the Hawthorne library. See Mrs. Pezley or Ms. Westermeyer to hold a book or request additional book titles.
I Want That Nut!
by Madeline Valentine
"This is a nutty and clever buddy story that celebrates cooperation."
Recommended Pre K - K
Cooperation
by Janet Riehecky
"Introduces cooperation through examples of everyday situations where this character trait can be used."
Recommended K-3
Jack & Rick
by David McPhail
"Jack and Rick want to play together, but there's a river between them and they will have to work together to bridge it."
Recommended grades 1-2
Cookies
by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
"A guide to life defining such concepts as fair and unfair, and the meaning of cooperation."
Recommended K-3
Camille's Team
by Stuart J. Murphy
"At the beach four animal friends work together to make a fabulous sand fort."
Reading level 2
Big Pumpkin
by Erica Silverman
"A witch trying to pick a big pumpkin on Halloween discovers the value of cooperation when she gets help from a series of monsters."
Recommended K-3
Old Mahony and The Bear Family
by Wolfram Hanel
"When a whole family of fun-loving bears shows up at the river where usually only he and Big Bill the bear fish, Old Mahony decides to make a trap to get rid of the noisy newcomers."
Recommended grades 2-3
The Big, Beautiful, Brown Box
by Larry Dane Brimne
"The Corner Kids all have different ideas about how to use a big box, but then they find that working together is the best idea of all."
Recommended K-3
Assessment Options
Assessment Options
Review the following information from the Women's and Kid's Health Network. See if students can fill in the blanks with the correct words based on their understandings of cooperation readings and videos. (See below for the answers.)
"To have real ____________ at school everyone needs to keep the school ______. These ______have been put into place to keep everyone in the school community safe and cared for.
"To have real ____________ at school everyone needs to keep the school ______. These ______have been put into place to keep everyone in the school community safe and cared for.
Your teacher and the kids in your class may _________________ (2 words) to add some more special rules about how you will work together so that everyone in the classroom gets a ‘fair go'.
Your teacher and the kids in your class may _________________ (2 words) to add some more special rules about how you will work together so that everyone in the classroom gets a ‘fair go'.
Maybe you talked about the values which are most ______________ to you and what they would look like if they were being followed in your classroom."
Maybe you talked about the values which are most ______________ to you and what they would look like if they were being followed in your classroom."
Look at the following photos with your students.
- Which one looks MORE like cooperation? Do they show equal amounts of cooperation? Why?
- Can students remember an example from one of the books to help explain their answers?
Review the following video as a class. Ask students to point out examples of cooperation, when finished.
References
Cooperation [Video file]. (2010). Retrieved May 1, 2019, from https://learn360.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=110620&xtid=81521
Pixabay (2019). "Stunning free images & royalty free stock." Retrieved from www.pixabay.com.
Sesame Street (Aug 2008). "Sesame Street - Garden Cooperation." Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR34PJOl3K8.
Thompson, Brenda. "Collaborating through cooking." PBS Parents. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/parents/eat-smart-challenge/2011/09/20/collaborating-through-cooking/.
Women's and Children's Health Network (Feb 2018). "Let's Cooperate." Retrieved from http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=286&id=2962.
Assessment Answers; 1. cooperation; 2. rules; 3. rules; 4. work together; 5. important
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