Cooperation Teaching Resources
Explore activities designed to help students learn cooperation skills and build positive relationships with their classmates and teachers. Each teaching resource in this social emotional teaching collection has been created by teachers for primary school teachers like you!
Explore anchor charts, worksheets and more to teach students what it means to cooperate, how cooperative behaviour helps our relationships and more!
Curious about how to build a cooperative learning environment and wondering how it applies to kids in your classroom? Read on for some tips from our expert teachers!
What Does Cooperation Mean? A Kid-Friendly Definition
You know what it means to have everyone cooperating with one another, but how do you explain what it means to be cooperative? Let's start with a definition from our teacher team!
Cooperation is when people work together as a team to achieve a common goal. It means helping and supporting each other, listening to everyone's ideas, and taking turns.
Cooperation in the Classroom
Cooperation is an important part of social emotional learning that promotes empathy and kindness as students learn to consider others' feelings and needs. Those benefits can have a major impact on your entire classroom environment.
Cooperation can be seen during group projects or activities where students work together. It involves sharing materials, brainstorming ideas and working towards a shared outcome. Cooperation also extends to recess and lunchtime, where students can play together, wait their turn on the playground and resolve conflicts peacefully.
A cooperation station activity is a fun way to get kids thinking about why it's important to cooperate.
When kids are cooperating with their peers — be it in small group work, when lining up at the classroom door or during the myriad day-to-day tasks throughout the school day — you can also bring cooperative learning to life through the sharing of ideas, discussing concepts as a class, group problem-solving and plenty more.
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Cooperation Puzzles - Teamwork Activity
Explore the benefits of cooperation with a tangram-style team-building activity.
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Race to 50: Cooperation Challenges
Explore the benefits of cooperation with a set of team-building number race activities.
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Team Building Games for Upper Grades
Encourage communication and cooperation with a set of 10 team building games.
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Cooperation Paper Chain
Work as a team to create a paper chain to serve as a reminder of the importance of cooperation.
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G.R.O.U.P.S - Group Work Expectations Poster
Encourage cooperative behaviour during group work activities with a printable group work mnemonic poster.
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We Can Cooperate Mini Book
Read to learn about cooperative behaviour with a printable one-page foldable mini book.
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Cooperation Tessellation Art Project
Engage your students in practising the art of cooperation by having them create a collaborative tessellation project.
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Cooperation Social Stories - Interactive Activity
Help your students differentiate between uncooperative and cooperative behaviour in social situations with an interactive activity.
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Social Skills Lessons - Cooperation Worksheets
Teach social skills lessons on cooperation with a set of printable SEL worksheets.
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What is Cooperation? - Social Emotional Writing Prompts
Teach your students about cooperative and non-cooperative behaviours with a set of ten writing prompt worksheets.
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Cooperation Word Search
Review vocabulary and boost your students’ cooperative interaction skills with a word search worksheet.
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Sharing with My Friends – Mini-Book
Develop skills and strategies for sharing with others with this printable mini-book.
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Picture Puzzles - Team Building Activity
Build classroom community with a set of team-building puzzles for primary students.
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Good Choice or Bad Choice? Worksheet
Help your students differentiate between good and bad behaviour choices with a cut-and-paste worksheet.
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I Can Be Cooperative - Social Skills Sort
Practise personal and social skills to cooperate and interact respectfully with others with an engaging sorting activity.
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Cooperation Task Cards - Social Skills Activity
Build problem-solving skills and boost cooperative behaviour in the classroom with printable discussion cards and writing prompts.
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I Can Show Cooperation Mini Workbook
Help your students understand ways to show cooperation with a printable mini workbook.
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Cooperation Cartoons - Social Skills Activity
Encourage cooperation and collaboration in your classroom with a collaborative drawing activity.
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Looks Like, Sounds Like, Feels Like - Cooperation Anchor Charts
Teach your students what cooperation looks, feels, and sounds like with a set of printable posters.
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Cooperation Station - SEL & Character Education Craft
Make your classroom a better “space” with cooperative learning and a fun Cooperation Station craft!
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Cooperation Cause and Effect Worksheet
Discover the effects of uncooperative behaviour with a cause-and-effect worksheet.
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Cooperation Certificate - Good Character Award Template
Celebrate your students' cooperative behaviour by awarding them a personalized Cooperation Award.
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I Can't Always Win Mini-Book
Teach your students to cope when they are not the winner with this social story mini-book.
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My Cooperation Sticker Chart
Promote and reward cooperative behaviour with a pack of printable cooperation sticker charts.
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Is It Cooperative? Sorting Activity
Explore the difference between cooperative and non-cooperative behaviour with a sorting activity.
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Cooperation Quilt Template
Promote cooperative behaviour amongst your students by engaging them in creating a collaborative Cooperation Quilt project.
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What is Cooperation? SEL Accordion Book
Engage your students in identifying cooperative and non-cooperative behaviours with a printable social-emotional learning accordion book.
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Ways to Show Cooperation Poster and Worksheet
Learn ways to show cooperation with a printable poster and accompanying worksheet pack.
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Cooperation Word Splash and Acrostic Poem
Discuss cooperation with your students and write an acrostic poem wih a printable word splash worksheet and poem template.
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What is Cooperation? Cut and Paste Worksheet
Explore the difference between cooperative and non-cooperative behaviour with this cut-and-paste worksheet.