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Print a criss-cross cooperation crossword: most clues are moments of working together, and the answer is the teamwork word.

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Cooperation Crossword

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  • Agree
  • Carry
  • Help
  • Honest
  • Idea
  • Listen
  • Plan
  • Share
  • Team
  • Trade
  • Turn
  • Vote

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Answer key: Cooperation Crossword

1VOT2T3HE4LP5S6HAREIOAS7CNM8TRADE9AERSG10PLANR11TURNYE12IDEA

Across 3 HELP · 5 SHARE · 8 TRADE · 10 PLAN · 11 TURN · 12 IDEA

Down 1 VOTE · 2 TEAM · 4 LISTEN · 6 HONEST · 7 CARRY · 9 AGREE

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Working Together 36

  • Alternate You stir, then I stir, then you again
  • Assist Steady the ladder while a classmate hangs the banner
  • Build Stack blocks with a classmate until the pile reaches your chin
  • Carry Take a handle of the heavy cooler while a classmate takes the other
  • Cheer Yell "Go, go, go!" as your side rounds the last bend
  • Collaborate What a composer and a poet do to make one song
  • Combine Pour your marbles and mine into a single jar
  • Contribute Bring two cans to the food drive: every can adds to the pile
  • Cooperate What two movers must do to get a couch up a narrow stairway
  • Coordinate Check the list so that nobody brings the same snack twice
  • Encourage "You can do it, keep going!": say this to a tired runner
  • Finish Press the last piece into the puzzle, with everyone watching
  • Gather Call the whole class to the rug
  • Help Grab the other end of a long bench that a classmate cannot move alone
  • Include Slide over on the bench so there is room for the new kid
  • Invite "We need a fourth player. Want to come?": to say this
  • Join Hop into the jumping game when the others wave you over
  • Lend Let a classmate use your ruler until math is over
  • Lift "Ready, set, up!": what four kids do to a long bench
  • Organize Sort out who brings cups, who brings juice and who brings napkins
  • Participate Sing, paint or pick up a broom: anything but sit out
  • Pass Send the basketball to the open player instead of shooting
  • Pool Put everyone's coins in one cup to buy a class kickball
  • Rehearse Run the whole play from start to end before opening night
  • Rely Count on the goalie to guard the net while you run upfield: ___ on her
  • Rotate Door holder this week, plant waterer next: the class jobs ___
  • Share Two kids, a single book: hold it in the middle so both can see
  • Solve Crack the riddle after four minds chew on it
  • Split Half the class sweeps and half wipes desks: ___ the chores
  • Support Clap for a nervous classmate before the speech begins
  • Trade I wash and you dry today; tomorrow we ___ jobs
  • Trust Hand a classmate your only copy of the script, sure it will come back
  • Turn Ana rolls the dice, then Ben, then Cy: each gets a ___
  • Unite What several small groups do to become a single big group
  • Volunteer Say "I will do it" before anyone has to be picked
  • Wait Hold the door until the last child in line is through

Talking and Deciding 34

  • Agenda Sheet that says: 1. Roll call 2. Snack sign-up 3. Field trip
  • Agree Say "Yes, that works for me too"
  • Apologize "Sorry I grabbed the marker": to say so
  • Ask "May I have the glue after you?": to do this
  • Brainstorm Fill the whiteboard with every wild thought and judge none yet
  • Clarify "Do you mean the red folder or the blue?": a question to ___ things
  • Compromise One wanted red, one wanted blue, so the poster is striped in both
  • Consensus Not one "no" is left: an answer the whole group accepts
  • Debate One side says yes, one side says no, and each gets two minutes
  • Decide Pick a way and stop going over it again
  • Discuss Go over the choices out loud, each classmate adding a thought
  • Explain Show a puzzled classmate how you got 42, part by part
  • Feedback "The ending is strong, the start drags": useful words on a draft
  • Goal Fifty cans by Friday: what the whole class is aiming for
  • Huddle Players bunched shoulder to shoulder to hear the next play
  • Idea "I know! A puppet show!": a bright thought that pops up
  • Interrupt Cut into a classmate's sentence before it is done
  • Listen Eyes on the speaker, lips closed, ears open
  • Majority Six hands out of ten for kickball: the bigger side of a count
  • Mediate Sit between two quarreling classmates and guide them to a fix
  • Meeting Eight chairs, one table, four o'clock: time to talk things over
  • Negotiate Bargain: "Two stickers for your eraser?" "Make it four"
  • Nod A yes with no words: chin down, chin up
  • Opinion "Dogs are the best pets": a view, not a fact
  • Persuade Offer strong reasons until the others say "OK, your way"
  • Plan First glue, then glitter, then dry: an order chosen before starting
  • Respect Let a classmate end a sentence you think is wrong
  • Settle End a quarrel so both sides can get on with the poster
  • Signal A thumbs-up across a noisy gym
  • Speak Do this up so the far row can hear
  • Suggest "What if we paint it blue?": to offer a thought like that
  • Summarize Say in ten words what the group spent ten minutes saying
  • Vote Hands up for pizza, hands up for tacos, then count
  • Whisper The hushed way to give a clue to the classmate beside you

Roles and Groups 33

  • Band Drummer, guitarist and singer who play as one
  • Buddy Reading ___: the fifth grader who reads with a first grader
  • Captain The player the rest of the side looks to when things get tight
  • Cast Every actor in the school play
  • Checker Group job: makes sure every name is on the paper
  • Choir Thirty voices on the risers
  • Circle Shape a class sits in so that every face can be seen
  • Club Chess on Tuesdays after school: a group with one hobby
  • Coach Grown-up with a whistle and a clipboard at practice
  • Committee Six parents chosen to run the spring carnival
  • Council Student ___: elected classmates who are the voice of the school
  • Crew Stage ___: the students who move the scenery behind the curtain
  • Facilitator Group job: sees that nobody is left out of the talk and nobody takes it over
  • Leader The one at the front of the line, with the rest behind
  • Manager Group job: fetches the scissors and glue and puts them away
  • Member Any person whose name is on the group list
  • Mentor Older student who shows a newcomer how things are done
  • Monitor Line ___, plant ___, pencil ___: a classroom job title
  • Neighbor Elbow ___: the classmate sitting right beside you
  • Pair A group of exactly two
  • Partner The classmate on the other end of your seesaw
  • Quartet Four singers, four parts, one song
  • Reader Group job: says the directions out loud for the group
  • Recorder Group job: holds the pencil and writes down every answer
  • Reporter Group job: gets up at the end and presents the findings
  • Role Scribe, timer or speaker: each is one in a group
  • Shift Your hour at the bake sale stall before the next seller comes
  • Squad Every player on the list, starters and bench alike
  • Substitute Player on the bench, ready to go in
  • Team Six players in matching shirts who win or lose as one
  • Teammate The player who sends the puck to you, not against you
  • Timekeeper Group job: calls out "Two minutes left!"
  • Trio A group of exactly three

What a Good Teammate Is 28

  • Calm How a voice should stay when two classmates want the same job
  • Considerate Thinking of how loud your group sounds to the group next door
  • Dependable Like the classmate who never once forgot to feed the class fish
  • Effort Sweat, practice and trying again: what every person owes the group
  • Equal Like four slices of pizza all cut the same size
  • Fair Like a rule that is the same for every player
  • Flexible Fine with playing goalie today, though striker was the hope
  • Focused Eyes on the job, not on the window
  • Generous Like the classmate who hands out the last of her own markers
  • Gracious Shaking hands and saying "Good game" after losing
  • Harmony Different notes, or different people, fitting sweetly
  • Honest Like a player who says "It was out" against her own side
  • Humble Like the scorer who points at the passer and says "Great feed"
  • Kind Like the classmate who saves you a seat
  • Loyal Still wearing the school colors after a season with no wins
  • Morale A group's mood: high after a win, low after three losses
  • Patient Like a classmate who lets you sound out a long word
  • Polite Says "Excuse me" and "After you" at the supply shelf
  • Positive Says "We can still win" when down by ten
  • Prepared Walks in with pencils, notes and the homework already done
  • Punctual At practice at 3:00 sharp, not 3:10
  • Reliable Like the classmate whose part of the poster is always done on time
  • Responsible Like the classmate who brings the glue because she said she would
  • Thoughtful Like the classmate who brings an extra pencil in case someone needs it
  • Tolerant Able to work beside someone whose ways are not your ways
  • Unity What a rowing eight shows when every oar dips at once
  • Unselfish Skipping the glory shot because another player is open
  • Willing Ready to try any job the group needs done

Teams in Action 36

  • Anchor Name for the runner who gets the final handoff
  • Ants Leafcutter ___ haul bits of leaf home to grow a fungus
  • Barn At a "raising", a whole community puts one up for a farm family
  • Baton It changes fists inside a marked exchange zone while both runners sprint
  • Bell In a fable the mice mean to hang one on the cat, but no one will do the job
  • Bucket A ___ brigade moved water hand to hand to fight fires before pumps
  • Carpool Several riders, one car, one trip
  • Cleaner ___ fish pick dead skin and parasites off other fish
  • Clownfish Coral reef fish that shelters in a sea anemone, to the good of both
  • Colony Ant city of queens, workers and soldiers
  • Conductor Person who directs the musicians with movements of the hands and arms
  • Coxswain The person in a racing shell who steers and calls the timing
  • Geese When these long-necked waterbirds migrate, the flock draws a V in the sky
  • Hive Home where thousands of honeybees live and work
  • Jigsaw Classroom method named for a puzzle: each small group holds one piece of the lesson
  • Latin Old language whose verb "cooperor", to work with, gave English a long teamwork word
  • Lichen Algae and fungus living as one growth
  • Mechanics At a pit stop they swarm a racing car to fit new tires and add fuel
  • Meerkat Small animal of southern Africa whose group always has a sentry watching for danger
  • Mouse In an Aesop fable, the small animal that frees a netted lion
  • Mutualism A bee gets nectar and the flower gets its pollen moved: a bond of this sort
  • Orchestra Violins, flutes, trumpets and drums that play as a single body
  • Oxpecker Bird that rides on a zebra or rhino and eats its ticks
  • Pack Wolves hunt in a group with this name
  • Penguins Emperor ___ press into a tight crowd against the Antarctic wind
  • Potluck Supper with no single chef: each family arrives with a dish
  • Quilt What a roomful of stitchers complete side by side at a "bee"
  • Relay Race in four parts, each run by a different runner
  • Rope In tug of war, both sides pull on one
  • Rowers Eight of them, each with one oar, and a steerer fill one racing shell
  • Sled Dogs in harness pull one over the snow
  • Sticks In an Aesop fable, a bundle of these cannot be broken though each snaps alone
  • Stone "___ Soup": folk tale in which a whole town adds a little food to one pot
  • Symbiosis Word built from the Greek for together and living: the close life of two unlike creatures
  • Tower In Catalonia, Spain, people climb up to form a human one, a castell
  • Waggle A honeybee does this dance to report how far off the flowers are and which way

Sayings About Teamwork 21

  • Boat "In the same ___": facing the same trouble
  • Chain "A ___ is only as strong as its weakest link"
  • Cooks "Too many ___ spoil the broth": a job can have too many bosses
  • Deck "All hands on ___!": everyone is needed
  • Dream "Teamwork makes the ___ work"
  • Glove "Hand in ___": working very closely
  • Halfway "Meet me ___": each side yields a little
  • Heads "Two ___ are better than one"
  • Island "No man is an ___": everyone depends on other people
  • Light "Many hands make ___ work"
  • Loop "In the ___": kept informed of what the group is doing
  • Mile "Go the extra ___": do more than the job called for
  • Numbers "There is strength in ___": a group can do what a lone person cannot
  • Page "On the same ___": understanding a thing the same way
  • Pitch in Two words: do your part of a job everyone is doing
  • Plate "Step up to the ___": take on the duty
  • Sync "In ___": working smoothly as one
  • Tango "It takes two to ___"
  • Village "It takes a ___ to raise a child"
  • Weight "Pull your ___": do your full part of a group job
  • Win-win The same short word twice, with a hyphen: nobody loses

How this list was compiled: Clues written for this site about cooperation and teamwork, in six sets: working together, talking and deciding, roles and groups, what a good teammate is, teams in action and sayings. Most clues are everyday moments of our own. Sayings were read in English Wiktionary, and facts about animals, races, fables and customs in English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), in October 2026. A word game, not counseling. Licence: own work

How it works

These free printable cooperation crossword puzzles are vocabulary crosswords for Letter or A4. "Two kids, a single book: hold it in the middle so both can see" is Share. The first puzzle has 12 easy words, among them Listen, Help, Turn, Agree and Team.

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Six sets after the easy one

Working Together has Cooperate, Volunteer and Rotate. Talking and Deciding has Compromise, Consensus and Brainstorm. Roles and Groups has Recorder, Timekeeper and Facilitator. What a Good Teammate Is has Reliable, Flexible and Gracious. Teams in Action has Relay, Coxswain and Meerkat. Sayings About Teamwork has Halfway, Tango and Village.

Teams from a beehive to a boat race

Teams in Action is the fact set: geese in a V, the waggle dance of a honeybee, leafcutter ants, the bucket brigade, the barn raising, and the eight rowers and their coxswain.

  • Print Roles and Groups before a group project, then let each table hand out Recorder, Timekeeper, Reporter and Checker.

Questions and answers

Are the cooperation crossword puzzles printable with an answer key?

Yes. The key prints last, on a sheet of its own, so the puzzle goes to the class and the key stays with you. Printing is free, with no sign-up.

Is the cooperation crossword right for 5th grade?

Yes. Easy Teamwork Words suits grades 2 to 4, with a word bank. The six themed sets suit grades 4 to 6, so a 5th grade class can take Talking and Deciding or Sayings About Teamwork. These bands are our judgment, not a published standard.

Is this a printable teamwork crossword too?

Yes. Team, Teammate, Captain, Coach, Relay and Huddle are answers, and one set holds sayings such as many hands make light work and two heads are better than one.

What does cooperation mean?

To cooperate is to work or act together for a shared purpose. The verb comes from a Latin word that means to work with. Cooperate and Latin are both answers.

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