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PEHealthy lives and outdoor challenge20 min★ difficulty

Solving problems as a team

Some challenges you can only solve by combining ideas — and a team that listens to everyone usually beats one dominated by a single voice.

Part of your national curriculum
  • Outdoor and adventurous activity: Solve problems individually and as part of a group, encouraging others and working collaboratively to meet a challenge

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Solve problems individually and as part of a group, encouraging others and working collaboratively to meet a challenge

Key learning points

  • • Individual problem-solving
  • • Group collaboration
  • • Encouragement under pressure

This lesson at a glance

  • 20 minutes
  • 13 parts to scroll through
  • 3 quick checks
  • Marked quiz at the end
  • Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

problemsindividuallyencouragingotherscollaboratively

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Introduction

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Solving problems as a team

Some challenges you can only solve by combining ideas — and a team that listens to everyone usually beats one dominated by a single voice.

In a nutshell

Solve problems individually and as part of a group, encouraging others and working collaboratively to meet a challenge

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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 1 of 2

Part 1 · Individual problem-solving

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

Part 3 of 13

Learn

Individual problem-solving

Every team member should try solving part of a challenge independently first — this generates a wider range of ideas than immediately defaulting to one person's plan, and builds everyone's confidence to contribute.

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Explore the idea

Part 4 of 13

Learn

Group collaboration

Sharing individual ideas, then testing and combining the best elements, usually produces a stronger overall solution than any one person's original idea. Good groups actively invite quieter members to speak.

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Quick check

Part 5 of 13

Quick check

Why should team members try solving a problem individually first?

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Reset break

Part 6 of 13

Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.

Stop here for now
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Quick check

Part 7 of 13

Quick check

What usually produces the strongest solution?

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Learning cycle

Part 8 of 13

Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2 · Encouragement under pressure

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

Part 9 of 13

Learn

Encouragement under pressure

Challenges often go wrong before they go right. Teams that encourage rather than blame after a failed attempt keep morale and focus high, which directly improves the chance of solving the next attempt successfully.

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Quick check

Part 10 of 13

Quick check

How should a team respond after a failed attempt?

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Challenge round

Part 11 of 13

Game · Sort it

Which of these are true?

Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.

True

Not true

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Mastery quiz

Part 12 of 13

Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: Solving problems as a team

3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

  1. 1. Why should team members try solving a problem individually first?

  2. 2. What usually produces the strongest solution?

  3. 3. How should a team respond after a failed attempt?

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Lesson round-up

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Lesson round-up

Ready when you are

Quiz score

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Points this lesson

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Best run

0 in a row

Luna: 0 out of 3 on the practice checks. Only if you feel up to it — one more?

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Do the work

Your written work for this lesson

This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.

Article

What a warm-up is actually for

A warm-up raises the heart rate, sends more blood to the working muscles and raises muscle temperature by a couple of degrees. Warm muscle stretches further before it tears, and messages between brain and muscle travel faster, so movement is more accurate.

A good warm-up has three parts: a few minutes of easy movement, mobility that takes joints through the range the sport needs, and short bursts at close to game speed.

Long, still stretching before explosive sport can slow the muscle down. Save that kind of stretching for the cool-down.

Written for Good Learning Co.

Reading questions

  1. Explain in your own words two things a warm-up does to the body.
  2. Design a ten-minute warm-up for one sport, with times for each part.
  3. Keep a training log for three sessions: what you did, how long, and how you felt after.

  • Training log

    Writing

    Write what you did, for how long, and how your body felt afterwards.

    Half a page

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