Plan and reflect
Plan My Drawing
Before you draw: choose your idea, shapes and colors. After you draw: look back and set a goal.
Thinking sheet · Plan and reflect
How Did Our Team Do?
After a group project: rate how the team listened, shared and helped, and plan one thing to do better.
- Grades
- 2–5
- Time
- about 15 minutes
- Topic
- Plan and reflect
- Kids practice
- collaboration, self-assessment, setting a team goal
What kids do
“Good teams look back so they can get even better.”
- Our project:
- We listened
- We shared jobs
- We helped
- Draw our team at work
- My job was…
- Next time our team will…
How to run it
- Fill it in alone first, then compare as a team.
- Focus on the team, not on blaming one person.
- Keep it for the next group project and check the goal.
Talk about it
- What did your team do really well?
- What made sharing hard?
- What makes a great teammate?
Take it further
Write a thank-you note to a teammate.
Pairs well with
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