- Year 1
Team activities: cooperating successfully
I can complete tasks through teamwork by being cooperative.
- Year 1
Team activities: cooperating successfully
I can complete tasks through teamwork by being cooperative.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: moving in a variety of different ways requires coordination and agility.
- Think: tasks are completed when everyone on the team concentrates.
- Feel: trying our hardest throughout an activity requires self-belief.
- Connect: team success requires everyone in the team to cooperate.
Keywords
Coordination - the ability to move 2 or more body parts at the same time and move with others
Cooperate - working with others to achieve a shared goal
Success - trying your best, learning new things, and being confident
Common misconception
Pupils think they must be standing up to create letter shapes. When creating words, pairs make their letter shapes in the wrong order, or facing the wrong way, so that the whole word is not seen.
Letter shapes can be formed standing or lying down. Encourage teams to imagine that they are another team looking at their word, are all letters in the correct order and facing the same direction?
To help you plan your year 1 physical education lesson on: Team activities: cooperating successfully, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 1 physical education lesson on: Team activities: cooperating successfully, 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.
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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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Equipment
Animal action cards and 3 letter word posters (additional materials)
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
