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PBS

Pbs: About All You Can Eat: A Feast at Plimouth Plantation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan in the culinary delicacies of the Plymouth Plantation in 1627. In this integrated lesson plan, learners examine the history of foods eaten during this colonial era and prepare an actual meal based on what they have learned....
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Changing Your Mind: Nerve Cell Infomercials

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Build nerve cell models in cooperative groups, and articulate the structure and function of nerve cells to explore the nervous system. Describe specific elements of human physiology by "advertising" the nervous system in nerve cell...
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CPALMS

Mountain Bicycles, Inc.

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be deciding which type of bike will be best for a company to sell in their community. Students must work in cooperative groups as they determine...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Hey, Mom! What's for Breakfast?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students working in cooperative groups will: 1.Discuss food items they consume for breakfast. 2.Investigate elements of foreign culture, particularly food. 3.Use map skills to locate selected foreign nations. 4.Increase...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Habitats

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
What is a habitat? In this instructional activity, students will identify that a habitat has four elements, food, water, shelter, and space. Students will identify their own habitat and create a brochure describing the habitat in terms...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Budgeting for the Oregon Trail

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
As a part of the online collaborative unit, Westward Ho!, young scholars will work in cooperative groups of 4-5 students to decide what items they need to take on the Oregon Trail, determine the cost of the items, and complete a ledger...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Get on Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In collaborative/cooperative groups, middle schoolers will review basic vocabulary and concepts for data and statistics. Students will create, collect, display, and interpret data in the form of frequency tables, bar graphs and circle...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Pythagorean Theorem: Prove It (Part 2)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, eighth grade students will use their new found knowledge of the Pythagorean Theorem and relate it to the world around them. They will work in cooperative groups to solve problems using the Pythagorean Theorem. Adobe PDF...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Carlos the Centipede Is Subtracting Decimals!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will work in collaborative/cooperative groups to understand subtracting decimals. Students will use decimal grids to represent the difference of decimals. Emphasis is on using place-value, lining up the decimals...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Carlos the Centipede Is Adding Decimals!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this instructional activity, students will work in collaborative/cooperative groups to understand adding decimals. Students will use decimal grids to represent the sum of decimals. Emphasis is on using place-value, lining up the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Plants Are Survivors!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
All plants have basic life requirements. Understanding these requirements as well as plant structure helps explain why plants prefer some locations over others. This project allows students to work in cooperative groups to explore the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Wearing Away the Mountains

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Tennessee River Gorge outside Chattanooga is recognized as a protected biosphere reserve by the United Nations due to its immense proportion of species to acres. Understanding the formation of the gorge helps explain why so many...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Arc Lengths and Sector Areas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will work in cooperative groups to discover the relationships between arc length, central angle measure, and circumference. They will also discover the relationship between circle area, central angle measures, and sector area....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Positively f.u.n. !

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This instructional activity will actively engage students to identify and add positive and negative integers. In cooperative groups, students will discuss everyday vocabulary that will activate students' existing background knowledge and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Pump Up the Volume

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
In this lesson, students will be required to generate a formula for volume of a rectangular prism. Students working in cooperative groups will use prior knowledge for finding area of a rectangle to determine the "amount of area in a...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Percents

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson explores the making of comparisons by using percents. In this lesson you will compare your class's favorite foods using percents. Middle schoolers will use cooperative groups to answer follow up questions about the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Build a City on Geometry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The students will be split into small, cooperative groups and build a city following specific guidelines. The students will learn how a city is constructed with angles, intersections, parallel, intersecting, and transversal streets. They...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Polly"gon Pockets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Lesson plan that helps students explore the attributes of polygons through the use of cooperative groups. Students use jigsaw puzzles and foldable polygons. They also connect the attributes of specific polygons with objects in the real...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Creating the 14th Colony

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After studying the 13 original colonies students will create their own colonies in cooperative groups. This will help students understand the difficulties the colonist had to endure in learning to work together. Students will have to...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Metric and Time Review and Quiz

For Teachers 6th Standards
The students will be reviewing the metric system in a cooperative group activity and then using the review and applying it to an assessment.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Weather Detectives

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is an introductory lesson to a second grade weather unit. The young scholars will be observing the weather each day for one week and recording their observations in a chart. The students will be integrating information from the...
Professional Doc
Other

Social Psychology Network: Jigsaw Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The "official web site of the jigsaw classroom",- a cooperative learning technique which was developed by Elliot Aronson. The jigsaw approach is considered to promote better learning, improve student motivation, and increase enjoyment of...
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Other

Gdrc: Collaborative Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site provides a thorough introduction to collaborative learning including terms and definitions, benefits of collaborative learning, strategies, tools, methods and making collaborative learning work.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Use the Cooperative Learning Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Cooperative learning fosters group accountability and provides struggling readers with the opportunity to work with stronger academic role models. Learn how to introduce this strategy in the classroom.

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