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Sports

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify specific physical and emotional characteristics and experiences within an activity. They work in small groups. Students are introduced to different everyday objects. In their groups they choose from the objects...
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Communicate - Without Talking?

For Teachers K - 4th
Students discuss and define communication and identify different ways of communicating with people. Students then practice team building and non-verbal communication skills as they work silently in small teams to put puzzles together.
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Team Problem-Solving Fun

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students work in groups to solve a variety of puzzling activities which include math, spelling, anagrams, and geography. They use cooperative skill to accomplish each task and chart their group progress.
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Compound Word Game

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create compound words in teams based on pictures they see on the board. In this compound word lesson plan, students have 5 minutes to come up with as many compound words as they can.
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Closing Lesson on Hatchet

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students draw or act out visual representations of 2 chapters in the novel Hatchet. For this Hatchet lesson plan, students draw or act out scenes in teams of 2.
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Relay Races: Fun for Everybody!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students collaborate as teams in relay races. In this physical education instructional activity, students learn the basic rules for running a relay race and the different directions they have to follow to complete the race.
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Team Handball

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the game of handball. They review the basic skills of the game and review the lines on the court as well as the basic rules. Students practice the footwork, passing and shooting.
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Hybrid Sport

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice playing a net sport similiar to volleyball. They work together to score more points than the other team. They make suggestions about who to change the game as well.
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Teambuilding

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students work together as a team to create a birdhouse. This activity show students that each member of a team has a specific responsibility and job to perform. They compare the houses built by the different teams.
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Teaching Free Throws

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders watch video on proper way to shoot a free throw in basketball, identify different skills in game of basketball, and shoot at least 20 free throws.
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Squirrel in a Tree

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students develop an awareness of and practice the mobility needed to run around other Students.
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Collegiate Baseball Newspaper

For Students 9th - 10th
Lists national polls, players of the week, standings and more.
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The Official Web Site of Usa Baseball

For Students 9th - 10th
Official site for USA Baseball including the Olympic team. It offers a variety of information and links to other information resources.
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North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

Ncrel: Building a Committed Team

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Action steps that will build successful teams at the school level as well as implementation pitfalls and illustrative cases.
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Los Angeles County Office of Education

Teams: Levels of Phonemic Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site outlines seven levels of phonemic awareness ranging from awareness of rhyming words to phoneme manipulation.
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Los Angeles County Office of Education

Teams: Phonemic Awareness Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site offers phonemic awareness activities that will extend the concepts and skills associated with this reading skill. Activities include rhyming words, segmenting syllables, substituting beginning sounds, isolating sounds, and...
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Inter Link: Achieving Effectiveness Through Team Communication

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Article discusses how to achieve better team communication. Lists the components of team communication along with barriers to effective communication. Also provides a section on feedback. SL.9-10.1d Possitive Communication Stratagies,...
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Los Angeles County Office of Education

Teams: Distance Learning: Rhyming Words Activities

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A K-1 lesson plan from TEAMS Distance Learning. "Students will practice rhyming words and also be able to identify words that rhyme. These lessons will have them active."
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Los Angeles County Office of Education

Teams: Phoneme Awareness Assessment Tools: Final Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Here are two tools to use in assessing student understanding of final sounds. One deals with phoneme isolation and one deals with phoneme matching.
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Los Angeles County Office of Education

Teams: Distance Learning: Recognizing Rhyme

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site from the TEAMS Distance Learning provides a K-1 activity: "Quick test you can give your students to see if they can tell when words rhyme and when they do not."
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Energy4me: Petroleum Ponder

For Teachers 1st - 5th
What materials are made from petroleum? The object of Petroleum Ponder is for each team to correctly identify as many items as possible that are made from petroleum in their Petroleum Ponder box. In a relay fashion, each team member will...
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Virginia Tech

Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Included here is a study of collaborative learning versus individual learning. This study provides details of its methodology and its findings.
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Deutscher Basketball Bund

For Students 9th - 10th
In German with much English mixed in. The German National Basketball Association has info on Streetball, local teams, Beach Basketball, women's and men's, rules in German, images, national players and links to the German National League...