Get Outside!
Team/Initiative
Games
Class Description:
As members of a team, students learn about the life skills of trust, communication, cooperation and logical thinking while playing games, solving problems, and working through challenges. The team will be collectively analyzing how effective they were before, during, and after the games. This processing of experiences will focus the students on discussing how to use these skills to solve problems and challenges they encounter at home, at school, and in the community. Download this lesson plan.
Outcomes
Upon completion of the Team Games class, students will be able to:
- Use logical thinking, trust, communication and cooperation with others to solve problems.
- Understand that practicing life skills can empower us to reach our goals.
- Realize the need to have effective citizens who can work together for a quality environment.
- Practice self evaluation of their performances.
Minnesota Graduation Standards
Wolf Ridge has aligned the Center's entire curriculum to Minnesota Department of Education Academic Standards. As the primary student audience at Wolf Ridge is from 4th-12th grade, the matrices address these grade levels. Teachers may request that their students focus upon a specific benchmark while attending Wolf Ridge. The Wolf Ridge Curriculum Standards Matrix addresses benchmarks in
- Science
- Math
- History and Social Science
- Language Arts
- Arts
Wolf Ridge Curriculum Concepts
- Working cooperatively to accomplish goals promotes mutual support and benefit.
- Developing group interaction skills will improve our responses to future life situations.
- Understanding and respecting others enables us to work together effectively as a community
Harmony comes from recognizing that similarities are greater than differences.
- Quality individuals make a quality group.
- Courage, trustworthiness and initiative are desirable personal qualities.
- Joy and fun are a vital component of a healthy happy life.
- How we play today is how we live tomorrow.
- See entire Wolf Ridge Curriculum Framework
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Time
3 hours total
2 hours outdoors
Audience
4th grade - adult
Activity level
moderate
Travel
none
Total uphill travel
none
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