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This book shows that anyone has the ability to be kind and that it is super powerful. Students can see how their actions have affect on themselves and others in which they have the power to ensure that it is positive to create a great mindset.

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Kindness is My Superpower | Read Aloud by Reading Pioneers Academy

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This book shows how Meesha makes new friends by meshing interests. It can show students the importance that both sides of the friendships should be considered.

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🦋Meesha Makes Friends (Read Aloud books for children) Inclusion Learning

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This book shows how a pair became friends. It will build the knowledge and confidence in students to make new relationships with their peers.

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📚 READ ALOUD: How I made a friend By Daniel Georges

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This website can be printed out for teachers to have students select a movement game that helps build friends. The rules are straight forward and can include multiple age range.

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by TeachThought Staff

10 Team-Building Games for a Friendlier Classroom is a fantastic resource for developing relationships and a positive tone in the classroom.

Included are 10 team-building games to get you started towards a friendlier, more positive classroom. This resource was developed by our own TeachThought Professional Development provider Jackie Gerstein, whose fantastic blog User Generated Education has fantastic resources on Maker Education, Growth Mindset, and more.

Her 26 years of experience in the classroom teaching at the K-12 and higher education level have allowed these team-building games to be in a wide range of classrooms, and have met the approval of teachers nationally. The games appear below-the first three as graphics, and the final seven as text below.
10 Team-Building Games For A Friendlier Classroom

4. Balloon Juggle-and-Sort
Challenge participants to keep inflated balloons (1+ per person) in the air. This gets the group moving and cooperating.

Once they've got the hang of it, make it harder by adding in more balloons or placing restrictions (e.g. no hands to keep balloons up.)

Then ask participants to keep juggling the balloons but sort them into colors (works best with large groups.)
5. Catch Me If You Can
The group is divided into two and then asked to face one another in two lines.

The groups are given approximately one minute to look at the opposing team, taking in all details about the individuals in the other group.

The two lines turn and face away from the center. Each group has a minute to change things (total # of changes determined by the facilitator) about their appearance (i.e., change a watch to a different wrist, unbutton a button, etc.) The changes must be discrete but visible.

The players again turn in to face each other to discover the physical changes that have been made. The team who discovers the most wins.
6. Are you more like...?
Ask members to stand in the middle of the room, then have them move to either side to indicate their choice (they must pick one).

More of a book or a song?

More Spotify or Apple Music?

More of a saver or a spender?

More like a cheetah or a bear?

More like the present or future?

More emotional or more logical?

More like a planet or star?
7. Flip the Sheet
While standing on top of a completely open bed sheet, the group must create a plan to get everyone on the opposite side of the sheet without anyone stepping off.

The size of the sheet should be defined by the number of individuals in the group. Larger groups may need to use a tarp instead.
8. All Aboard
Ask the whole group to try to fit inside a small area which can be marked by small platforms, a circle of rope, tarpaulin, blanket-use your imagination!

No body parts can touch the ground outside of the area.

When the group succeeds, decrease the area (e.g., changing platforms, shrinking the circle, or folding the tarp) & challenge the group again.

How far can the group go?
9. How are we the same?
Group members are paired and asked to come up with four commonalities.

Two pairs are then formed and they need to communicate with one another to discover four commonalities among them.

These are then shared with the rest of the group.
10. Line up!
Tell the team you will be calling out a category, and they have to 'line up' in order, based on the category.

Each person places him-herself on the line and moves to fit into the proper placement.

Each team member can only place and move themselves.

Example Categories:

● Birth Date (month and day)

● Alphabetical order in order of your middle name

● Alphabetical order in order of your birthplace

● Alphabetical order in order of your mother or father's first name
More Information
This is the first set of team-building games in an ongoing series, each set designed for a specific purpose, audience, or effect.
Other Included Materials
* Game names and instructions for teacher
* General recommendations for choosing game
* 1 Editable presentation
* 1 PDF File
10 Team-Building Games For A Friendlier Classroom

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Making Friends: 10 Team-Building Games For Students

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This website shows students the importance of finding and making friends. It is categorized by age and allows the student to be in control of the situation while exploring the website.

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Making new friends can make us feel nervous, excited or maybe a bit of both! If you want help with making friends, read these tips from Kids Helpline.

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This image will inspire students to think of activities and people they trust to help maintain a sense of calmness/positive feelings. This then can help them create paths to finding the importance of them feeling those positives feelings more often.

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This image says one word "mindfulness". I will use this image to have students write down whatever comes to mind when they hear this word as a type of brain dump. They can then pick their favorite from the list to help research further.

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This article mixes the physical and healthy mindset together. It is a short article but the message is meaningful and shows students that they can help each other achieve great goals in which makes them feel good in return to help someone else.

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Positive Relationships are not limited to just humans as this character in the article finds out. Students can research how a relationship with animals will help increase a healthy mindset.

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Reading this article students can see that cooking can be more fun with friends included. They can also share their knowledge on healthy food to help create a healthy friendship to grow a positive mindset.

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This book shows where people can find the ingredients needed to create their recipes. It also shows that recipes can be tailored to fit the taste preference of the audience who is eating it.

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LITTLE CHEF by Elisabeth Weinberg & Matt Stine | Story Time Pals | Kids Books Read Aloud

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This interactive book allows students to hear a step by step recipe with the measurements of the ingredients needed to make a pancake. Students can add different ingredients to make it healthy and personal.

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Read: Pancakes!: An Interactive Recipe Book (Cook In A Book)

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This story explains what cooking is at a student level. It uses the cooking terminology and the tools used to create recipes.

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Cooking with Kids website allows students to watch videos, create activities, and read kids food-based reviews. This website is friendly for family or friends who want to cook along side their child.

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Cooking with Kids educates and empowers children and families to make healthy food choices through hands-on nutrition education with fresh, affordable foods.

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The Super Healthy Kids website allows students to roam the food ideas that range from dinner inspiration to snacks. Students do not have to limit their recipe research to one meal, but it can be used if students feel the need to narrow down their research.

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This image can inspire students to research a recipe and how it can be made multiple different ways. This image shows that different berries can be added or removed from the recipe.

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This image can build students' curiosity and have them write down what the person is making and the ingredients they are making. Then the students can find recipes based on what they thought was being used.

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Students can learn where certain ingredients of their recipes come from. They can also find the culture importance of the recipes shared or use it to inspire research on another recipe.

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Students can explore how to make recipes with unique fruits in this article. They can stem their research based on a unique fruit that caught their interest.

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Students can learn how to create healthy recipes and possibly how the cause and effect of baking/cooking with another person helps create a positive and healthy mindset.

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Students can explore different cultures and what they put into their recipes to make foods. This is a great way to expand student knowledge on food making.

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This book poses the major question behind the purpose of actually eating healthy food. It explains both sides of eating well and not eating well.

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📕 Kids Book Read Aloud: Why Should I Eat Well? By Claire Llewellyn

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From the start this book clearly states that eating vegetables are a good choice to make. It explains the preparations and the variety of items that vegetables are used for in addition to eating them.

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This book takes readers on an adventure to see what is considered a fruit and the criteria that is needed. This book is light and fun and can inspire students to find a specific fruit to focus on the characteristics of it.

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This website called KidsCorner Nutrition allows students to click on different hyperlinks to read articles on how people of a variety of lifestyles still eat healthy. This would be ideal for students who like to have choice and see a variety of subtopics.

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Teach children the importance of nutrition and physical activity using interactive websites and games.

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MyPlate.gov is a great resource for students to explore different types of food and how each category should be ate each day and meal. This can be downloaded as an application on the ipads or searched up on the laptops/desktops.

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MyPlate | U.S. Department of Agriculture

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This image will show students the importance of having a rainbow of choices when making food. Students can see how many foods they can find for each of the rainbow colors that are classified as healthy and beneficial for the body.

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Students can visually see and possibly recreate their own version of the food pyramid. This can help them see what types and portions of food are needed to maintain a healthy food experience.

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This article categorizes the types of food for students and provides examples. There may be some inspiration for students to research based off of this starter article.

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Article #2 "The First Greenmarket in New York City"

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The article is longer than some others, however, the audio and teacher projection option is available for students who may need the extra resource style. Students can learn how people in New York City provide healthy gardens and food resources despite the obstacles.

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This article is giving an choice to send out to students, visual, and audio choice. It is about fruits and the benefits that they play in maintaining a healthy body.

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This is one of many choices that students could chose to have their sports focus on. This book uses descriptive words that show all the actions needed to be taken to perform in a basketball game.

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LET'S PLAY BASKETBALL Story for Kids | Sports Books for Kids | Children's Books Read Aloud

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This read aloud tells students why having a busy body in important in their health. It provides diagrams for student visual of the effects on the body and how it works.

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The Busy Body Book - read by Coach Spina

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This book is on YouTube and allows students to see the visual of the book while it is read aloud to them. It provides tips on maintaining a healthy lifestyle in a way that students will relate.

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The Times for Kids website allows students to read books on the topic of sports or exercise. This website is written with the student's reading level in mind and includes the choice of audio to hear the article.

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Students can explore the website of ESPN targeted for kids. This allows them to find an article, image, or video that inspires them to write about the importance of movement for the body.

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This picture will be shown to inspire students to consider what it means to be in a sport and how to exercise. Anyone can do anything they put their mind too and there are a variety of movements that can be made to help maintain a healthy body.

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This second image will show students that movement can be done in a variety of fashions and can include others. Doing sports and exercise can be both an individual and inclusive way to move.

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The article 'My Life Hasn't Changed' shows how students find importance in playing sports and maintaining a healthy lifestyle despite obstacles in the way. This shows students that people with disabilities still can participate in sports and exercises and the importance to include others.

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This article allows students to read up on sports that they may not have heard of before. It exposes them to sports that they can start up themselves through exploration and practice.

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This article gets kids thinking about their own personal fitness level and ways that they can improve themselves. It is important that students are self-aware of what they are doing to provide the best version of themselves.

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