Teamwork What Would You Do? Cards — Think, Choose, Act
You’re the group recorder, but your fingers keep drifting toward Ayaan’s stopwatch.
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About this resource
You’re the group recorder, but your fingers keep drifting toward Ayaan’s stopwatch. These teamwork what would you do scenarios give Grades 2–5 forty group moments like that, from a foil boat challenge to two hundred goodie bags at the library, with three action cards for each. They build Relationship Skills: knowing your job, mixing ideas and cheering teammates on.
What students practice
- Understanding team roles and how they fit together
- Keeping the shared goal ahead of what they want
- Combining everyone’s ideas into one plan
- Doing their fair share of the work
- Cheering teammates on while the work happens
What’s inside
- 40 scenario cards across Understanding Team Roles, Working Toward a Shared Goal, Combining Everyone’s Ideas, Doing My Share of the Work and Cheering On My Teammates
- 120 action cards (three per scenario, from the strongest team move to an impulsive one)
- 40 reflection sheets
- Teacher guide with five uses; 77 pages
A look inside
- The Team Handshake: Faisal wants a high five, Mira a fist bump, you a spin. Link the Moves suggests “a handshake that starts with a high five, then a fist bump, then a spin.”
- The Foil Boat Challenge: fifteen minutes to build a boat that holds the most pennies, and you’d rather draw the pirate flag. Choices: Shape the Boat First, Draw a Tiny Flag, Make the Flag.
- Two Hundred Goodie Bags: almost an hour in, Carmen’s hands are slowing down. Start a Bag Cheer is one option.
How to use these teamwork what would you do cards
- Discuss The Prop Crew: what can someone without a speaking part do to help the play?
- Give small groups Clues or a Map and have them argue for Map Your Clues, Keep the Clues or Call Maps Boring
- Role-play Ravi Steps Up in the dugout and try Call His Name against Talk About Snacks
- Use the reflection sheets in counselor-led groups or as homework
- Rotate teams through the five SEL stations; they’ll practice teamwork just by moving through them
Grade fit
Sixteen scenes are in the community (karate studio, baseball dugout, library club), 14 at school and 10 at home, like cleaning up after a surprise breakfast. Group projects and teams are part of every elementary week, so these teamwork scenarios suit Grades 2–5 and work as decision making activities before a big group task.
Digital version
The interactive digital version shares as one link: students answer the think questions (or just read them in the quick format), choose an action card and say why, on any device with no student logins. At the end they download an answer sheet to hand in.
Pairs well with
Put the skills to work with Teamwork Tower — Team Building Activity Kit or Teamwork Role Play Scenarios.
Questions teachers ask
Are all the teams school groups?
No. Fourteen scenarios are at school, 16 are in the community (sports, clubs, a karate class) and 10 are at home, like planning a treasure hunt with a sister.
Do students need accounts for the digital version?
No. You share one link, and students open it on any device without logging in.
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