Social and Emotional Learning Activities on Cooperation

Cooperation lessons for kindergarten pair teaching points and a read-aloud list with group challenges like the Human Knot, reflection writing pages and an emergent reader built on the sight word can.
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Preschool–Kindergarten, Grades 1–2
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Updated Sep 18, 2026

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Social Skills, Special Resources
Topic
Curriculum, Cooperation
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The Social Emotional Learning Unit: Cooperation Activities is a 12-page resource full of ideas, lessons and printables to teach students about cooperation. You will receive a handout that includes teaching points, read-alouds, videos and extra activities. There is a letter to caregivers to support cooperation at home. After learning about cooperation, students will get to write about what they've learned and practice their reading skills with the emergent reader.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Explain in their own words what cooperation means

  • Reflect in writing on how their group worked through the Human Knot challenge

  • Read the sight word can in a patterned emergent reader

Teaching tips

  • The Sesame Street cooperation song is a linked video, so playing it needs internet access.

  • The building challenge calls for building materials the teacher supplies.

Skills covered

  • Working as a group — untangling the Human Knot and completing a building challenge together

  • Reflective writing — describing what cooperation looked like during the challenge

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

Are the read-aloud books part of the unit?

The read-aloud titles, such as The Little Red Hen and Swimmy, are listed as suggestions and need to be borrowed or sourced separately; the unit does not include the books.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Cooperation

  • Sharing ideas

  • Listening to others

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