Cooperation and communication
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can cooperate and communicate well to successfully complete challenges as a team.
Key learning points
- Move: moving quickly, with coordination, increases the chance of our team completing challenges.
- Think: making effective decisions about tactics to use can help my team complete challenges successfully.
- Feel: supporting others during challenges demonstrates courage and honesty.
- Connect: showing gratitude to our teammates helps our team to successfully cooperate.
- Connect: working effectively as a team to apply strategies enables success in the competition as well as enjoyment.
Keywords
Cooperation - working together and helping others to achieve a goal
Communication - sharing ideas, thoughts or feelings with others
Team - a group of people who work together to reach a goal
Common misconception
Some pupils may think that when they are working in a team, everyone should stay together and do the same thing.
Sometimes, a good tactic to quickly complete a challenge is to split the challenge into smaller tasks and share them out amongst the team. A team can still be working towards the same goal, even if everyone is working separately on different tasks.
Teacher tip
If you have access to a wider range of equipment, you can create your own additional materials by taking photographs and copying them into the blank template provided.
Equipment
90+ cones, 15 tennis balls, 30+ beanbags, 30+ quoits, 30+ ropes
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Which of these can be used to communicate information?
Q2.Which of these words means moving different body parts together?
Q3.Which of these phrases might encourage a teammate?
Q4.What is most likely to help you to successfully complete a challenge?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What can you improve to help you to move more quickly?
Q2.Which of these words means working together to achieve a goal?
Q3.Which of these tactics can help a team complete challenges more quickly?
Q4.What can you do to cooperate with your teammates or partner?
To help you plan your 2 physical education lesson on: Cooperation and communication, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 2 physical education lesson on: Cooperation and communication, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom.
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