Leadership and Teamwork

218 Activities

Leadership and Teamwork

Move, compete, and work together through games and physical play. Learners build teamwork, coordination, and confidence while having fun. Activities range from creative movement to structured sports. All energy levels welcome!

Activities

Network Scheduling

Leadership and Teamwork • Digital Media and Communications

45m

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Grades 3 - 5

Network Scheduling

By PBS

3 - 5

45m

Students create a recording schedule that works for everyone in the news teams. Like the pros, they’ll make sure every news team can capture their story and that the story finds its perfect spot on the airwaves.

This is lesson 34 of PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs' second module, Building a News Hour.

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Network Scheduling

Leadership and Teamwork • Digital Media and Communications

45m•Grades 3 - 5

Mission to Mars

Leadership and Teamwork • STEM

45m

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Grades 9 - 12

Mission to Mars

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45m

Students work in groups to plan a mission to Mars. This activity builds teamwork, speaking and listening skills, and problem-solving skills.

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Mission to Mars

Leadership and Teamwork • STEM

45m•Grades 9 - 12

Functional Fitness Week 4: Day 1

Leadership and Teamwork • Health and Wellness

40m

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Grades K - 8

Functional Fitness Week 4: Day 1

By Active Kids and Minds

K - 8

40m

Start week 4 by learning the skill of the week: Sit-ups. In this activity, students focus on strengthening their muscles through exercise and a game of Up and Down. Then, they learn how grains are incorporated into nutritional dishes.

This activity is part of the Active Kids and Minds Functional Fitness 12-week program. If you are new to the program, visit the Active Kids and Minds Functional Fitness: Weeks 1-4 Collection before getting started.

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Functional Fitness Week 4: Day 1

Leadership and Teamwork • Health and Wellness

40m•Grades K - 8

Be a Sales Representative (Grades 9-12)

Leadership and Teamwork • Career and Future Readiness

45m

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Grades 9 - 12

Be a Sales Representative (Grades 9-12)

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45m

Students take on the role of sales reps as they select, research, and create a sales pitch for a product. They share their pitches with the large group and learn how successful they are at selling their products. Students then discuss and analyze the effectiveness of various sales pitches and evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of the products.

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Be a Sales Representative (Grades 9-12)

Leadership and Teamwork • Career and Future Readiness

45m•Grades 9 - 12

Evaluate a Business Idea (Grades 9-12)

Leadership and Teamwork • Career and Future Readiness

45m

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Grades 9 - 12

Evaluate a Business Idea (Grades 9-12)

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45m

Students evaluate business ideas. Working in groups, they develop business ideas and use SWOT Analysis to assess the viability of each idea.

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Evaluate a Business Idea (Grades 9-12)

Leadership and Teamwork • Career and Future Readiness

45m•Grades 9 - 12

Choreograph Dance Moves (Grades 3-5)

Leadership and Teamwork • Arts

45m

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Grades 3 - 5

Choreograph Dance Moves (Grades 3-5)

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45m

In this activity, students will work together to respond to music through choreography. In groups of 4–6, students will choreograph 1 minute of a song they like and present it to the larger group.

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Choreograph Dance Moves (Grades 3-5)

Leadership and Teamwork • Arts

45m•Grades 3 - 5

Functional Fitness Week 5: Day 1

Leadership and Teamwork • Health and Wellness

40m

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Grades K - 8

Functional Fitness Week 5: Day 1

By Active Kids and Minds

K - 8

40m

Start week 5 by learning the skill of the week: Push-ups. In this activity, students learn to activate their upper body and core muscles while performing push-ups, and play Fox and Rabbit. Then, they learn about the health and nutritional benefits of proteins.

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Functional Fitness Week 5: Day 1

Leadership and Teamwork • Health and Wellness

40m•Grades K - 8

Promote Your Business

Leadership and Teamwork • Career and Future Readiness

45m

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Grades 6 - 8

Promote Your Business

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45m

Students brainstorm and share ideas for promoting or marketing a small business.

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Promote Your Business

Leadership and Teamwork • Career and Future Readiness

45m•Grades 6 - 8

Dodgeball

Leadership and Teamwork • Health and Wellness

45m

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Grades 6 - 8

Dodgeball

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45m

Students learn and play dodgeball. This activity builds cooperative learning skills and hand-eye coordination and promotes physical fitness.

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Dodgeball

Leadership and Teamwork • Health and Wellness

45m•Grades 6 - 8

Business Skills: Job Interview

Leadership and Teamwork • Career and Future Readiness

45m

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Grades 9 - 12

Business Skills: Job Interview

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45m

In this activity, students will explore the role of interviewing in business. They will begin by identifying the purpose of an interview and brainstorming a list of properties or characteristics of interviews in the business world. Next, working in teams, student will develop a job description and interview questions. They then pair up to take turns role-playing an interviewer and an applicant.

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Business Skills: Job Interview

Leadership and Teamwork • Career and Future Readiness

45m•Grades 9 - 12

New Sports Jigsaw

Leadership and Teamwork • Health and Wellness

45m

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Grades 9 - 12

New Sports Jigsaw

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45m

In this activity, students create a new sport based on the characteristics of sports that they know.

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New Sports Jigsaw

Leadership and Teamwork • Health and Wellness

45m•Grades 9 - 12

MLB Players STEM League Lesson 1: Demonstrating Sportsmanship

Leadership and Teamwork • STEM

45m

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Grades 3 - 8

MLB Players STEM League Lesson 1: Demonstrating Sportsmanship

By Learn Fresh

3 - 8

45m

As the MLB STEM League experience begins, all student participants are asked to sign a Sportsmanship Contract. Just like a professional MLB player, this affirms their commitment to their teammates and peers, setting the foundation for a fun, fair, and respectful season.

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MLB Players STEM League Lesson 1: Demonstrating Sportsmanship

Leadership and Teamwork • STEM

45m•Grades 3 - 8

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Summer Camp Connection Activities and Team Building Games

Leadership and Teamwork • Social and Emotional Awareness

12 Items

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Grades K - 8

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Summer Camp Connection Activities and Team Building Games

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 8

Build connection from day one with activities that help young people feel included, confident, and ready to participate. These icebreakers and team-building games build relationships, strengthen collaboration, and create a strong group culture from day one.

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Summer Camp Connection Activities and Team Building Games

Leadership and Teamwork • Social and Emotional Awareness

Grades K - 8

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Back to School: Community Building Activities

Social and Emotional Awareness • Leadership and Teamwork

10 Items

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All Grades

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Back to School: Community Building Activities

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

All Grades

Build community at the start of any program with this collection of activities that give children and youth fun ways to get to know each other!

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Back to School: Community Building Activities

Social and Emotional Awareness • Leadership and Teamwork

All Grades

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Leadership and Team Building

Leadership and Teamwork

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All Grades

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Leadership and Team Building

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

All Grades

Great things happen when leadership and teamwork come together! This collection of engaging K-12 activities help youth awaken their inner leader while strengthening the skills that make collaboration meaningful. Through playful challenges, cooperative tasks, and reflective moments, learners build communication, problem-solving, and shared responsibility. Whether someone is stepping into leadership for the first time or refining their strengths, each experience encourages confidence, connection, and positive group dynamics.

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Leadership and Team Building

Leadership and Teamwork

All Grades

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American History: Elevating Black Voices (6-12)

Literacy • History and Society • Leadership and Teamwork

13 Items

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Grades 6 - 12

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American History: Elevating Black Voices (6-12)

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 12

The American History: Elevating Black Voices Collection is a weekly, inquiry-driven playlist that invites learners to examine how storytelling, innovation, creativity, and leadership shape American history and civic life. Through complex texts, Innovator Trading Cards, and theme-based activities across literacy, STEM, the arts, and collaborative problem-solving, students engage with lesser-known Black Americans—whose contributions have influenced systems, culture, and community change. Each week introduces a thematic lens that builds historical analysis, critical reading, argumentation, and interdisciplinary thinking, culminating in a challenge-based game that requires evidence, reasoning, and collaboration. Designed to support meaningful discussion and application, this Collection highlights innovation as a collective process and underscores the power of amplifying voices that shape our shared history.

This collection is designed to have learners apply ideas from the weekly themes introduced through the Innovator Playing Cards with additional related activities; it is recommended to follow this sequence to maintain consistency:

Week 1: Storytelling and Voice

Designing Innovator Trading Cards

What Makes a Good Story?

One Minute Speeches

Erasure Poetry as Resistance

Week 2: Inventing and Problem Solving

Designing Innovator Trading Cards

Cell City

Catapult (Team Building) Game

Build an Extension Arm

Week 3: Creativity and Expression

Designing Innovator Trading Cards

Create a Cardboard Self-Portrait

Improv: Say the Line

How to Look at Dance

Week 4: Leadership and Change

Designing Innovator Trading Cards

Playing Innovator Trading Cards

Analyzing and Constructing Timelines of Racial (In)justice

Dream Team

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American History: Elevating Black Voices (6-12)

Literacy • History and Society • Leadership and Teamwork

Grades 6 - 12

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Pitch Challenge Tools

Career and Future Readiness • Leadership and Teamwork

4 Items

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Grades 3 - 12

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Pitch Challenge Tools

By Young Entrepreneur Institute

3 - 12

This series of pitch practice activities builds and reinforces presentation skills and provides a vehicle for establishing a safe space. The activities stand alone or can be used as a series, offering progressively more opportunity for critical thinking and skill development. These activities can also be used to help students prepare for a contest or presentation. Visit www.yepitch.org to learn about virtual contest opportunities and access a full pitch contest curriculum and toolkit.

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Pitch Challenge Tools

Career and Future Readiness • Leadership and Teamwork

Grades 3 - 12

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American History: Elevating Black Voices (K-2)

History and Society • Literacy • STEM • Arts • Leadership and Teamwork

13 Items

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Grades K - 2

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American History: Elevating Black Voices (K-2)

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 2

The American History: Elevating Black Voices Collection is a weekly, hands-on playlist that helps young learners explore how stories, creativity, problem-solving, and leadership shape communities and American history. Through engaging texts, Innovator Trading Cards, and theme-based activities in literacy, STEM, the arts, and teamwork, students discover lesser-known Black Americans whose voices and ideas have made a lasting impact. Each week introduces a new theme that strengthens early reading skills, creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking, while giving learners multiple opportunities to apply their understanding through play and exploration. Designed for easy facilitation and joyful learning, this playlist shows that innovation takes many forms—and that every voice matters.

For a consistent learning experience, it is recommended that this collection be completed in the sequence outlined below. This allows learners to apply the weekly themes from the Innovator Playing Cards through supplementary activities.

Week 1: Storytelling and Voice

Designing Innovator Trading Cards (K-2)

New End to the Story

Round Robin Storytelling

Animal Interviews

Week 2: Inventing and Problem Solving

Designing Innovator Trading Cards (K-2)

Balanced Mobile

Sound on a String

Mechanical Engineering Tops

Week 3: Creativity and Expression

Designing Innovator Trading Cards (K-2)

Masquerade Masks

Music and Rhythm (Grades k-2)

Creative Play Design Challenges

Week 4: Leadership and Change

Designing Innovator Trading Cards (K-2)

Playing Innovator Trading Cards (K-2)

People Bingo

What is a Quality

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American History: Elevating Black Voices (K-2)

History and Society • Literacy • STEM • Arts • Leadership and Teamwork

Grades K - 2

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Mixed-Age Group Summer Activities

STEM • Leadership and Teamwork • Arts

4 Items

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All Grades

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Mixed-Age Group Summer Activities

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

All Grades

Planning summer camp activities for mixed-age groups can be challenging. These adaptable lessons are designed for camps where multiple age groups learn together, making it easier to keep everyone engaged, included, and having fun.

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Mixed-Age Group Summer Activities

STEM • Leadership and Teamwork • Arts

All Grades

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Amplify Youth Voice with SEL

Social and Emotional Awareness • Leadership and Teamwork

15 Items

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All Grades

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Amplify Youth Voice with SEL

By Mizzen Education, Inc.

All Grades

Empower youth, amplify student voice, and make learning an adventure! The activities in this playlist are designed to spark creativity, foster teamwork, and encourage self-discovery, making learning an adventure that students look forward to each day. This playlist is packed with engaging activities in the arts, career exploration, and social and emotional learning — that foster self-awareness, creativity, connection, and belonging. Each lesson plan equips you to engage students to become more active participants in their own journey.

"The most memorable lessons often come from the journey, not the destination — enjoy the messiness of learning, it's here that the real magic happens." — Lauren B. González

This Playlist was curated by Lauren B. González, in collaboration with Mizzen Education. Lauren has more than 15 years in the educational field and is a doctoral candidate for Applied Learning Sciences at The University of Miami. A first-generation Latina and daughter of Cuban exiles, Lauren describes her approach to learning as "holistic, respectful of student cultures, and deeply rooted in resilience and empathy."

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Amplify Youth Voice with SEL

Social and Emotional Awareness • Leadership and Teamwork

All Grades

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Active Kids and Minds Functional Fitness: Weeks 5-8

Health and Wellness • Leadership and Teamwork

15 Items

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Grades K - 8

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Active Kids and Minds Functional Fitness: Weeks 5-8

By Active Kids and Minds

K - 8

Continue moving with Active Kids and Minds Functional Fitness! This is the second of three Active Kids and Minds Collections. Covering Weeks 5-8, this set of activities continues with new skills of the week, strengthening fitness principles, and building nutritional knowledge.

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Active Kids and Minds Functional Fitness: Weeks 5-8

Health and Wellness • Leadership and Teamwork

Grades K - 8

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