Leadership and Teamwork

217 Activities

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

Functional Fitness Week 4: Day 1

Leadership and Teamwork, Health and Wellness

Grades K - 8

Functional Fitness Week 4: Day 1

Active Kids and Minds

K - 8

40 Minutes

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

Grades K - 8

Mission to Mars

Leadership and Teamwork, STEM

Grades 9 - 12

Mission to Mars

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45 Minutes

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

Grades 9 - 12

Network Scheduling

Leadership and Teamwork, Digital Media and Communications

Grades 3 - 5

Network Scheduling

PBS

3 - 5

45 Minutes

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

Grades 3 - 5

Functional Fitness Week 5: Day 1

Leadership and Teamwork, Health and Wellness

Grades K - 8

Functional Fitness Week 5: Day 1

Active Kids and Minds

K - 8

40 Minutes

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

Grades K - 8

Choreograph Dance Moves (Grades 3-5)

Leadership and Teamwork, Arts

Grades 3 - 5

Choreograph Dance Moves (Grades 3-5)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

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

Grades 3 - 5

Be a Sales Representative (Grades 9-12)

Leadership and Teamwork, Career and Future Readiness

Grades 9 - 12

Be a Sales Representative (Grades 9-12)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45 Minutes

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

Grades 9 - 12

Evaluate a Business Idea (Grades 9-12)

Leadership and Teamwork, Career and Future Readiness

Grades 9 - 12

Evaluate a Business Idea (Grades 9-12)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45 Minutes

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

Grades 9 - 12

New Sports Jigsaw

Leadership and Teamwork, Health and Wellness

Grades 9 - 12

New Sports Jigsaw

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45 Minutes

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

Grades 9 - 12

Business Skills: Job Interview

Leadership and Teamwork, Career and Future Readiness

Grades 9 - 12

Business Skills: Job Interview

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45 Minutes

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

Grades 9 - 12

Dodgeball

Leadership and Teamwork, Health and Wellness

Grades 6 - 8

Dodgeball

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45 Minutes

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

Grades 6 - 8

Promote Your Business

Leadership and Teamwork, Career and Future Readiness

Grades 6 - 8

Promote Your Business

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45 Minutes

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

Grades 6 - 8

Functional Fitness Week 9: Day 3

Leadership and Teamwork, Health and Wellness

Grades K - 8

Functional Fitness Week 9: Day 3

Active Kids and Minds

K - 8

40 Minutes

Finish week 9 with the skill of the week: Walking Lunges. In this activity, students participate in a relay challenge and game of Tricky Twosome Tag. Then, they reinforce prior learning about nutrition labels and ingredient lists.

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Functional Fitness Week 9: Day 3

Leadership and Teamwork, Health and Wellness

Grades K - 8

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Back to School: Community Building Activities

Leadership and Teamwork, Social and Emotional Awareness

10 Activities

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Grades K - 12

Back to School: Community Building Activities

Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 12

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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Leadership and Team Building

Leadership and Teamwork

23 Activities

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Grades K - 12

Leadership and Team Building

Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 12

14 Hours 55 Minutes

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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Pitch Challenge Tools

Leadership and Teamwork, Career and Future Readiness

4 Activities

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Grades 3 - 12

Pitch Challenge Tools

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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American History: Elevating Black Voices (6-12)

Leadership and Teamwork, History and Society, Literacy

13 Activities

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Grades 6 - 12

American History: Elevating Black Voices (6-12)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 12

9 Hours 10 Minutes

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 (K-2)

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

13 Activities

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Grades K - 2

American History: Elevating Black Voices (K-2)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 2

9 Hours 10 Minutes

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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Amplify Youth Voice with SEL

Leadership and Teamwork, Social and Emotional Awareness

15 Activities

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Grades K - 12

Amplify Youth Voice with SEL

Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 12

1 Hour 30 Minutes

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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Active Kids and Minds Functional Fitness: Weeks 5-8

Leadership and Teamwork, Health and Wellness

12 Activities

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Grades K - 8

Active Kids and Minds Functional Fitness: Weeks 5-8

Active Kids and Minds

K - 8

8 Hours

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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2020 National Summer Learning Association Awardees

Leadership and Teamwork

10 Activities

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Grades K - 12

2020 National Summer Learning Association Awardees

Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 12

9 Hours 30 Minutes

This playlist is brought to you by the awardees of the 2020 National Summer Learning Association Awards. We are so excited to feature the winners of Excellence in Summer Learning, Founder's Award, and Climate Change Award! Congratulations ANYTOWN, Camp EDMO, CityParks Foundation Green Girls Empowered by ING, and Young Audiences of Maryland- Summer Arts & Learning Academy for these achievements and all you do for the community.

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Innovator Trading Cards (6-12)

Leadership and Teamwork, Literacy, History and Society

2 Activities

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Grades 6 - 12

Innovator Trading Cards (6-12)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 12

2 Hours

This collection invites learners to analyze the work of lesser-known Black American innovators and transform their learning into a collaborative, challenge-based experience. Students design Innovator Trading Cards by closely reading informational texts, identifying historical context, and synthesizing each innovator’s contribution using evidence and symbolism. In the final game, learners apply teams of innovators to complex community scenarios, justifying their choices with text-based reasoning and historical insight. Together, the card design and gameplay encourage critical thinking, interdisciplinary connections, and a deeper understanding of how innovation, leadership, and culture shape society.

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