Grade K Communication and Collaboration: What is a Team? (In Development)

Kindergarten Creative Communicator/Global Collaborator

Lesson: What Is a Team?

A lesson seed collection is a menu of ideas that can be used to build a lesson. To build a lesson, select a Motivator Seed, a Lesson Seed, and a Assessment & Closure Seed. Use the Additional Activities and Resources for additional ideas, and remember to cue videos prior to instruction in order to avoid advertisements.

HCPSS Content Standards

Reading

RI3 With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
SL1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Writing

W6 With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
W7 Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about them).

Math

MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
MP6 Attend to precision.

Essential Questions

What is team work?
How do we work together as a team?

Outcomes

Students will understand that their kindergarten class constitutes a team that works together.

Vocabulary

team
player
coach
leader
teacher

Teacher Considerations

If printing individual pictures for a team bulletin board, consider placing pictures into a PowerPoint template set to print small. Have students hand in pics to your Hand-In folder, or have students take pictures on only one computer for easier printing of smaller pictures. This should allow each student’s picture to be placed on a bulletin board designed as a field to create a visual concrete picture of a team.
Templates are not created. Suggestions for templates are provided in the assessment column below.

Motivator Seeds: Multiple Means of Engagement

Seed 1

How is my kindergarten class also my team? Web with the students the various teams that they are a part of outside of school. Play a small game (telephone, memory game, etc) to reinforce that we all work together as a team.

Lesson Seeds: Multiple Means of Representation

Seed 1

Read a book on teams/teamwork. Ideas might be:

Game Day Story - Tumblebooks Access Tumblebooks through https://hcpss.me Links to an external site. > MackinVia
Teamwork - Ann Morris
Angelina and Alice - Katharine Holabird.

Assessment and Closure Seeds: Multiple Means of Action and Expression

Seed 1

Create a soccer field/baseball field/football field template. Template can be created in GAFE or Pixie or could also be a poster or bulletin board to be displayed in the classroom. Then, have students create self portraits or take pictures in Photo Booth. Place photos onto the field template so that students may concretely see that as a class, they create their own team.

Seed 2

Identify norms for respectful, trusting, and safe engagement in the community for working together effectively.

Additional Activities and Resources

Modifications

Extensions

For Assessment Seed 1 - Have each “player” create a bio/sentence/word underneath the picture explaining how they as a “player” or classmate can help contribute to the team.

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