Students in PE start the year with cooperative and character building activities. Teaching students how to problem solve, cooperate with others, listen, and respect themselves and others leads to a more productive environment.
Example Lesson Plan
August Unit Plan
Physical Education
5 Days
3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade
Topic: Cooperation, Consideration, and Communication
Students will be able to:
Describe different way to handle disagreements and arguments. (Problem solving wall)
Describe to how to move physically and act emotionally so that they and others are safe in PE.
Demonstrate how to work cooperatively with other teammates.
Demonstrate and describe good sportsmanship.
Games Used:
Island Hoppers (Team work and cooperation) or Titanic
Survivors (Teamwork)
Loop Da Hoop
Group Juggling
Frogs and Ants
Day 1 and 2: Introduction to PE
Essential Question:
What makes a student a good team member?
What are the characteristics of a good team member?
What does listening have to do with being a good team member?
Activating Strategy:
Welcome to PE and think of past teams – What are the characteristics of who you did not enjoy playing with? What are the characteristics of who you did enjoy playing with?
Cognitive Teaching Strategy:
Characteristics of good team member – list as a group.
Extending Refining Strategy:
Group Juggling – Day 1
Circle the Circle and Team Keep Away – Day 2
Summarizing Strategy:
Tell me one characteristic that makes you a good team member
Assignment or Assessment:
2nd and 3rd – Teacher observation
4th and 5th – Journal entry:
Write down what kind of team mate you are.
What are some of your positive characteristics?
What are some areas that you need to work on?
Day 3: Learning to How to Praise and Encourage
Essential Question: What is praise and when would you use it?
Activating Strategy: Think about the past. List Praise that you have heard and Seen. And List Encouragement that you have heard and seen.
Cognitive Teaching Strategy: Examples of Praise and Encouragement and how to use them.
Extending Refining Strategy: Jump Rope activity – Others jump and one person watches group and records their observations.
Summarizing Strategy: Report finding recorded by the observer to the group.
Teacher may ask: Were any put-downs or criticisms used?
How do put-downs make you feel?
How did being praised make you feel?
How were you encouraged?
Is it hard to praise or encourage another person?
Was it hard to receive the praise or encouragement?
Assignment or Assessment: Recorders sheet and teacher observation.
Day 4 – Team Pact or Standard Operating Procedures
Essential Question: What needs to happen with each teammate for you team to function as positively and productively as possible?
Activating Strategy: Review previous days findings and information.
Cognitive Teaching Strategy: Team pact guidelines and steps:
Teams decide on 8 guidelines that their team will follow.
List the 8 guidelines on the Team Pact Sheet.
Sign the bottom of the pact (says everyone agrees with it.)
Extending Refining Strategy: Create the pact.
Summarizing Strategy: Signature on bottom of Pact.
Assignment or Assessment: Team Pact – Teacher observation
Day 5 – Team Name, Handshake, and Cheer
Activating Strategy: Read over Team Pact Created in the previous Lesson
Cognitive Teaching Strategy: Examples of names, handshakes, and cheers.
Extending Refining Strategy: Teams Create their name, handshake and cheer
Summarizing Strategy: Did your team pact help you solve conflicts as they came up today?
Assignment or Assessment: Presentation of Name, handshake, and cheer.
Example poster found in the problem solving corner. 
The bulletin board display also lists different strategies that students can choose from to help solve their problems.
Examples include:
- Play rock/paper/scissors
- Ask for help if all else fails
- Talk about it
- Agree to Disagree
- Ignore unkind words
- Walk Away
- Apologize
- Listen to each other
Below is an assessment tool used to help students become aware of the social behavior that is expected.
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