Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Football Team [Pdf]
"The Football Team" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the goals of a school football team including learning leadership, teamwork, and sportsmanship. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence...
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Curriculum Rationale
Why are the arts important in education? This article explains why arts education is important to helping develop 21st century skills in todays students.
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Natures Four Teamwork Systems
This article takes a look at the nature of what is proposed to be the four teamwork systems. The idea of teamwork is compared to roles within biological teams. Subtopics of this concept are broken out and accompanied by concise...
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Ncrel: Building a Committed Team
Action steps that will build successful teams at the school level as well as implementation pitfalls and illustrative cases.
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What Are Good Leadership Skills: Activities for Leadership Workshops
Twelve activities for use in leadership training, aimed to develop teamwork and problem solving. Each activity lists objectives and clear instructions.
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Act, Inc.: Work Keys Assessments: Teamwork
Take tests online to determine your teamwork abilities in work and professional settings. This website describes 4 levels of teamwork, which expand upon "The traditional 3 Rs of reading, writing, and arithmetic by becoming one of the...
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Mathedpage.org: Algebra Manipulatives: Comparison and History
This resource discusses the use of manipulatives in the study of Algebra. The author sees benefits in symbol manipulation to enrich understanding, in geometric interpretation strengthening the connection to other parts of mathematics,...
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: Teamwork & Group Work
Teamwork is an essential component of an engineering curriculum since engineers almost always work in groups. This website contains links that help to explain the concept of teamwork, group work, and study teams. It also includes how to...
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United States Office of Personnel Management: Teams
A collection of resources on how to enhance and appraise a team's performance.
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Ntlf: Class Participation Assessment Rubric
This rubric is a means of restricting the subjective element in an assessment process of a Socratic dialogue, which inevitably has a subjective aspect. It suggests that students should be scored on the basis on the teacher's...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Design a Paper Car: Exploring the Scientific Method
An engineering design project used to help students practice teamwork and to give them an opportunity to experience engineering practices, such as teamwork and problem-solving.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: I've Got Issues!
This lesson will introduce students to environmental issues. Students will recognize environmental opinions and perspective, which will help them define themselves and others as either preservationists or conservationists. Students also...
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Teach Engineering: Engineering Design Process
This visual is a representation of engineering design process which includes teamwork and design. Students will be able to follow the steps of the design process to strengthen their understanding of open-ended design and emphasize...
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: "Live" Paintings (Lesson Plan)
This art project will teach students about various art styles and allow them to investigate various art historical periods. The site has a lesson plan included.
Read Works
Read Works: Building a Bridge
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about two friends who work together to build a bridge. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Speedy Shelter (Pdf)
This is a hands-on challenge to invent a sturdy emergency shelter that's easy to build. Provides a full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the engineering design process...
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Can You Copperplate?
Chemical engineering lesson investigates the processes of chemical plating and electroplating. Teams of students work together to devise a chemical system for plating metal objects with copper, then test and evaluate their findings and...
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Try Engineering: Radio Reception and Transmission
Teams of young scholars learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, and test a radio receiver and optional transmitter that can receive FM broadcasts. Lesson focuses on how advances in radio communications have...
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Try Engineering: Ets1 1 :Toxic Popcorn Design Challenge
Students learn about the engineering design process as they work in teams to design a process and a product to solve the Toxic Popcorn Challenge and save the city.
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Try Engineering: Engineered Music
Object of this lesson is to learn about the engineering design of musical instruments. Students work in teams to design and build their own "tunable" and unique instrument using everyday materials.
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Try Engineering: Filtration Investigation
Working in teams of "engineers", students learn about filtration systems and how they can remove impurities from drinking water.
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Try Engineering: Get It Write
Students learn about the engineering design process by working in teams to design and build a pen out of everyday materials that can deliver a controlled amount of ink to a sheet of paper.
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Try Engineering: Build a Big Wheel
Students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, test, and evaluate a big wheel or Ferris wheel made with pasta, glue, and teabags. The objective of the lesson is to explore how big wheels have been designed...
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Try Engineering: Conveyor Engineering
Students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, test, and evaluate a conveyor system made with everyday items than can move pieces of candy 4 feet including a 90 degree turn. The objective of the instructional...