Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Biodynamic Farming: A Systems and Global Engineering Project
This is an excellent project where students investigate biodynamic farming techniques. They then collaborate with students from around the world to design an aquaponics system for cultivating fish and plants that can be used in an...
Buck Institute
Buck Institute for Education: Collaboration Rubric (Ccss Aligned)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-12 in being effective collaborators in a project, and it can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS is noted. It is clear,...
Buck Institute
Buck Institute for Education: 6 12 Collaboration Rubric (Non Ccss)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-12 in being effective collaborators in a project, and it can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CCSS is not noted. It is clear,...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Speaking and Listening: Collaborative Conversations
Learners will partner read The Kite, by Alma Flor Ada. Then work together in small collaborative groups to describe the character of the mother, the children, or the kitten. Included in this lesson are video demonstrations, printable...
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Unboxed: Collaboration, Critique and Classroom Culture
Create a classroom where students collaborate with others, recognize improvement in their work, and help each other strive to work harder.
University of Wisconsin
National Institute for Science Education: Doing Cl
How do you start building collaborative learning structures into your coursework? Authors provide some practical considerations to make this learning style work for you.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Independent Lens: What's Your Calling?: Educator Guide
This educator guide is designed for young adults on the verge of making important life decisions, defining who they are, and determining how to achieve their hopes and dreams. Short film modules and highly customizable lesson plans allow...
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Pbs Learning Media: Independent Lens: The Calling: Film Discussion Guide
This discussion guide is designed as a tool to facilitate dialogue, and deepen understanding of the complex issues in The Calling, a film that follows seven young Muslims, Catholics, Evangelical Christians, and Jews on a dramatic...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Back to School Bingo
Let's play Bingo! Ask students to walk around the room and find a classmate for each fun fact on the board. As they find friends that match the facts, have students mark the box with their initials or a check.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: My Sound Is the Best! [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, young scholars will use music as an impetus for stating and supporting opinions. They will compose an opinion poster based on a narrative about a train using percussion instruments. This will involve group...
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Pbs Learning Media: Memory Lane Fitness Lesson Plan
With this activity, students get a brain and body workout! Students work in pairs as the teacher calls out physical tasks such as high fives and tunnel tens. As the teacher is calling out these partner exercises, students must listen...
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Pbs Learning Media: Waddle Lesson Plan
This instructional activity connects literacy, creativity and movement! Learners act out different animals in the book "Waddle" as the teacher reads aloud. Students listen carefully for the animal name and the verb describing how that...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wqed Education Programs: Clifford the Big Red Dog Programming
This collection of resources has been designed to help teach character development and social-emotional skills to children ages four to seven. Each lesson follows a similar format, in which children can watch (watch video), read (read a...
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Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Life's Little Lessons: Friendship
Just like Daniel Tiger and Miss Elaina, the children in your classroom are still learning how to be a friend, how to compromise, and how to work together to solve a problem. By seeing how Daniel Tiger and Miss Elaina work out their...
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Pbs Learning Media: Back to School: Activity Starters: Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience watching Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Back to School: Activity Starters: Hero Elementary
Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience watching Hero Elementary.
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Pbs Learning Media: Back to School: Activity Starters: Cyberchase
Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience watching Cyberchase.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Sample Guided Reading Lesson [Pdf]
This text on the topic of Women's Rights from Scholastic has been reformatted into a guided reading lesson where students can see annotated examples of active reading, stop at logical places in the text to answer discussion questions,...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Creating Podcasts With Your Students
Creating podcasts in the classroom has many educational benefits, including strengthening skills in research, writing, and collaboration - and podcasting is easy to do. This article walks you through the steps of preproduction,...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Co Vis: Learning Through Collaborative Visualization
A community of students, teachers, and researchers working to improve science education. Rather than depend on the teaching of facts, they seek to reproduce the question-centered, collaborative practices of scientists, using advanced...
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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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What Makes an "Amazing" Fable Captivating?
Students become the authors, producers and actors in their own multimedia fables, after they study fable characteristics for this lesson.
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The Dream Flag Project
This creative and collaborative project is centered around the poetry of Langston Hughes, and incorporates art, multi-cultural ideas, and student performance. The site is full of examples, information, lessons and explanation.
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Tech4 Learning: Recipes4 Success
If you're interested in developing project-based learning for your class, Tech4Learning provides tools for facilitating those projects and instruction in how to create and manage them. Free resources available, as well as resources by...