Team Building Activities for a Diverse Classroom
Overview
These activities in team building exercies will help students develop skills in thoughtfullness. The more students do these type of team building activities they develop a higher mental collaboration. This helps students improve communication and social skills.
Elementary Team Building Activities
Divide students into groups by having them count off. Give each group a set of character cards for their 5 minute skit.
Learning Outcome: All students in a diverse classroom will be challenged to work together and problem solve activities.
Teacher Planning: Literature activity unit lesson taught over a period of a few days. Create a Harry Potter themed classroom.
Information Handout On Unit
- Transform the classroom to mimic Hogwarts school of witchcraft
- Divide students into groups. Each group reciving a specific color of construction paper to make a wizzard hat and wand.
- Each person is given an index card with a Harry Potter character name and the team prepares a 5 minute skit on witch craft and wizzardrey.