Students will recognize how individual responsibility affects others and practice individual responsibility.
Ropes or ties for a leg race
Picture of an Olympic team working together (basketball team, hockey team, luge team) from the library or the Internet.
Internet resources may include:
International Ice Hockey Federation
International Luge Federation
2002 Olympic Winter Sports
Ask students what games they like to play.
Explain that many games are played by more than one person. Relay races take cooperation and working together. Model how to walk
in a "two-legged" walk race by having your leg and a student's leg tied together. Select four students to run a "two-legged" walk
race by having their two middle legs tied together. Other students observe how the pairs have to work together to run the race.
Discuss what the students have to do to run the race. Divide the class into two teams and the teams into pairs. Run a class
"two-legged" race.
Show a picture of a team of Olympic athletes working together. Ask students to visualize themselves as a member of that Olympic
team. What characteristics do athletes need to participate in team sports? Discuss the responsibility each team member has
in order for the team to work together.
Divide the class into two teams and the teams into threes. After modeling and practicing how three students walk together as
a trio run a class "three-legged" race.
Imagine that you are a member of the winter Olympic team.
Your team goal will be to work as a team to build a snowman that is bigger than the smallest member of the team. The snowman
needs a head with eyes, nose, and a mouth. Discuss how dividing the work helps finish the task. Teams have five minutes to
discuss their work, plan and assign team tasks. Build snowmen as a team and observe the snowmen of others.
Discuss how it was to work as a team to finish a task. Is it easier to finish a task as a member of a team or alone?
