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Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. —Henry FordBig Ideas For This Lesson Cooperation At Home Resources Level: Lower Elementary (K-2) Concepts: • Active Participation • Engagement • Interdependence • TeamworkIn class this week students participated in a teambuilding exercise to demonstrate the importance ofcooperation. In order to be most effective as a group every single person needs to participate and con-tribute. Until we all commit to being respectful learners and active participants, we will not reach ourfull potential as a classroom, family, or community.Just as it only takes one person to disrupt an activity; it only takes one person to distract an entireclassroom of learners. The key point is that cooperation requires 100% participation from everyoneinvolved. Essential VocabularyCooperation: A group of individuals working together towards a common goal, effort, or mutual benefit.Engagement: The degree of motivation, interest, curiosity, attention, and emotional commitment students’ show inthe process of learning.Participation: Actively taking part in and engaging in something. The percentage of a group of people that engage insomething (e.g., “The class had 80% participation in the reading assignment.”).Respect: Behaving and thinking in ways that show admiration, value, and care for other people, places, and things.Teamwork: Working in cooperation with others towards a common cause.© 2018 Empowering Education, Inc. PAGE 1 of 2 All rights reserved.

COOPERATION | GRADES K-2 PracticeInitiate a fun project that involves all family members (a garden, jigsaw puzzle, homemade pizza, etc.) Whatwas the project, and how did it go for you? What worked well and what was difficult? What lessons werelearned about cooperation? Student Resources• A Bus Called Heaven (Picture Book) by Bob Graham• Frog and Toad Storybook Treasury (Picture Book) by Arnold Lobel• Hey Jack! The Top Team (Picture Book) by Sally Rippin• Horse fly and Honeybee (Picture Book) by Randy Cecil• Stone Soup (Picture Book) by Jon J. Muth• Swimmy (Picture Book) by Leo Lionni Adult Resources• Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children’s Cognitive and Social- Emotional Growth (Book) by Dorothy Singer, Roberta Michnick Golinko and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek• Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships (Book) by Daniel Goleman• The Power of Play: Learning What Comes Naturally (Book) by David Elkind© 2017 Empowering Education, Inc. PAGE 2 of 2 All rights reserved.