Janine Perez
Grade: 3rd – 5th grade
Team Building Lesson Plan
Introduction:
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students how to effectively work or cooperate in groups or
teams. It also aims to encourage and build trust as well as promote or enhance their social skills.
Input:
The teacher will ask the students what they think team building is and proceed with a lecture on
team building and teamwork. Throughout the lesson, the students will engage in the following
activities to promote and build upon their teamwork skills: Trust Fall, Follow my voice, and
Geometry Relay.
Objectives:
By the end of this lesson students will be able to
1. Establish trust amongst their peers.
2. Effectively use their communication skills to keep their peers safe.
3. Understand that goals can be achieved when they work together as a team.
ASCA Mindset and Competencies:
B-LS 1. Demonstrate critical-thinking skills to make informed decisions
B-LS 10. Participate in enrichment and extracurricular activities
B-SMS 2. Demonstrate self-discipline and self-control
B-SMS 9. Demonstrate personal safety skills
B-SS 1. Use effective oral and written communication skills and listening skills
B-SS 2. Create positive and supportive relationships with other students
B-SS 5. Demonstrate ethical decision-making and social responsibility
B-SS 6. Use effective collaboration and cooperation skills
B-SS 7. Use leadership and teamwork skills to work effectively in diverse teams
B-SS 9. Demonstrate social maturity and behaviors appropriate to the situation and environment
Activities:
- Trust Fall (5-10 min)
- Follow my voice (10-15min)
- Geometry Relay (15 - 20 min)
Materials:
- Projector
- Laptop
- Cones
- Popsicle sticks
- Evaluation/Assessment Sheet
Procedure:
1. The teacher asks students about prior knowledge regarding Teamwork and team building.
2. Teacher proceeds with a lecture on team building.
3. The teacher facilitates the following activities to promote teamwork amongst the
students:
Trust Fall:
1. The teacher explains the importance of establishing trust. “If we don’t trust the people we
are with, how can we work together as a team?”
2. The teacher asks the students to pair up with someone who isn’t sitting next to them.
3. The teacher demonstrates how to do the trust fall and explains to them the importance of
safety. “We trust our partners with our lives. Will be drop them because they’re heavy or
we think it would be funny? Is that a peacebuilder attitude? So if they feel heavier than us
we’ll hold onto them and not let them down right?
4. The teacher then asks each pair to do a trust fall and switch places until everyone has
engaged in the activity.
Follow my voice:
1. The teacher asks the students to stay where they are.
2. The teacher divides the students into groups.
3. The teacher tells a narrative of all of them camping in the woods, but because it’s night
time they can’t see. The students who can’t see will cover their eyes and navigate the
jungle with “mines” (cones) that would explode if they touch it. Depending on the
number of students, there should be at least 3 to 6 teams.
4. Each team will think of a strategy on how they will lead their member to safety.
Note: Students must use only animal sounds to direct the students with blindfold to safety. One
strategy could be that the group rhythmically makes a frog sound to direct the student forward.
one person in the team screams “quack” if the person is going to touch a land mine. Another
student can yell “moo” if they are close to the safe zone.
Geometry Relay:
1. The teacher asks the students to divide themselves in groups with five members each.
Each group must assemble three shapes: Triangle, Square, and Pentagon.
2. The teacher establishes the following rules and instructions: it’s up to the group how they
will divide the work, the popsicle sticks must touch and create the shape throughout, if
the popsicle sticks fall or don’t form a shape they must go back to the starting line.
Depending on the shape, the group must do the following lap numbers: three for triangle,
four for square, and five for a pentagon.
3. Each student forms the shape and do the required laps around the cone while keeping the
appropriate shape.
Assessment:
Students will be asked to fill out an evaluation sheet to turn in and asked to share one thing they
learned about the lesson.
Closure
The teacher explains to the students that the purpose of this lesson and activity is to help these
student build trust in one another, enhance their social and communication skills, remind them
the importance of working as a team, and encourage them to work together to reach their goals.
