Team games are important in school life. They help the children learn the importance of working together for a common goal. Team building activities help the students understand themselves and give them an opportunity to improve on their weakness.

    Build a Story: This team game is about building a story form some pictures. Each team is supposed to build a story according to the picture given to each of its members. On understanding what each picture means, the team needs to put the pictures in order. The team that is the first to build the story wins.

    Team Craft（剪纸）: For this activity, the class is put into groups of four members. Each team is given some art materials like color pens, art paper and a knife. Each team should come up with something creative and special. The one who finishes first or does best in making craft will be the winner.

    Team Sports: Outdoor activities and sports are some of the best team games for schools. Volleyball, soccer and basketball are some of the very interesting team games. Exercise mixed with fun is one of the most important interests of playing sports.

    Dog and the Bone: This game is played between two teams. The teams line up in front of each other. In team A, each team member is given a different number. The same numbers are used for team B. An object is placed in an area between the two teams. The host(主持人)of the game calls out a number, the members with the same number from both teams rush to get the object. The member, who gets the "bone" first, make a point for his/her team.

    Parker Stewart, 15 years old, studies at the Sayre School in Kentucky, US. After doing some independent environmental studies, Parker wanted to make a difference in his community to help the environment.

    He started to work really hard last year to bring solar (太阳的) energy to his school's science labs. Thirty solar panels (电板) are going to be used in late November.

It started when Parker began researching solar energy. He found a solar power app. When he put in an exact address in it, it would tell him how much sunlight that area receives each day. He found that his school building receives a perfect amount (数量) of sunlight, which provided help for finding a good place to install (安装) solar panels for science labs.

    At his science teacher's suggestion, Parker performed an energy examination of one of the school's science labs to see how much energy it uses. He then started doing more research, including communicating with a local company called Synergy Home to install solar panels.

    Parker then went to the headmaster of his school to ask for money after explaining the upsides of solar power. The school used the money to buy one panel, but since then, the project has grown to a total of 30 panels. They're expected to produce enough energy to run all of the four science labs.

    Debbie Wheeler, his science teacher, said the success of the project was because of Parker's hard work. He did all of the research necessary to make clear of whether solar energy would be a suitable solution for the school's labs, as well as found out the number of the cost and good results for the project.

    Others just talk about improving the environment "but Parker had the persistence to make it happen," she added.

    When you make a mistake, big or small, cherish(珍惜) it like it's the most valuable thing in the world. Because in some ways, it is.

    Most of us feel bad when we make mistakes, beat ourselves up about it, feel like failures, get mad at ourselves.

    And that's only natural: most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad, that we should try to avoid mistakes. We've been blamed when we make mistakes at home, school and work. Maybe not always, but probably enough times to make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious(无意识的) reaction.

    Yet without mistakes, we could not learn or grow. If you think about it that way, mistakes should be cherished and celebrated for being one of the most amazing things in the world: they make learning possible; they make growth and improvement possible.

    By trial and error—trying things, making mistakes, and learning from those mistakes—we have figured out how to make electric light, to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to fly.

    Mistakes make walking possible for the smallest toddler, make speech possible, make works of talent possible.

    Think about how we learn: we don't just consume information about something and immediately know it or know how to do it. You don't just read about painting, or writing, or computer programming, or baking, or playing the piano, and know how to do them right away. Instead, you get information about something, from reading or from another person or from observing, then you make mistakes and repeat, making mistakes, learning from those mistakes, until you've pretty much learned how to do something. That's how we learn as babies and toddlers, and how we learn as adults. Mistakes are how we learn to do something new—because if you succeed at something, it's probably something you already knew how to do. You haven't really grown much from that success—at most it's the last step on your journey, not the whole journey. Most of the journey was made up of mistakes, if it's a good journey.

    So if you value learning, if you value growing and improving, then you should value mistakes. They are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible.