Can there be scenarios where everyone feels happy with the result? Learn about win-win situations and conflict resolution with a series of exercises and games designed to encourage teamwork and cooperative learning.

Concepts

habits of mind, attitudes, cooperation, conflict resolution, teamwork

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Additional Tags

health

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Instructional Ideas

• A helpful addition to your summer training camp for student athletes
• Use in the first week of school to instill a cooperative, supportive classroom environment
• If you don't want to use all of the activities, find the parts of the lesson that are most relevant to your curriculum

Classroom Considerations

• One of the activities involves arm wrestling; be sure that members of your class will not get out of control when arm wrestling with each other, or have your class thumb wrestle instead

Pros

• Provides a list of children's books that address the same theme, including The Butter Battle by Dr. Seuss, and The Very Clumsy Click Beetle by Eric Carle
• Two attached videos are useful ways to reinforce the concept in your class

Cons

• None