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PBS

Pbs: Black Kingdoms of the Nile

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A geometry lesson that examines the history and structure of ancient pyramids and engages students in constructing pyramid models. A comprehensive lesson that considers students with diverse learning styles. Math concepts introduced...
Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ways to organize cooperative groups so that meaningful discussion will occur. It also offers a worksheet for determining learning styles that is useful to develop groups. SL.9-10.1c Active Partic
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Strategies for Problematic Members

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a cooperative grouping strategy. This strategy focuses on placing students who tend to get into trouble.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Prime Time Primates: Finger Food

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Research two species of primates, the lemur and the aye-aye, to discover their survival strategies and adaptive behaviors. Select another primate species to investigate and work in a cooperative group to gather information from many...
Article
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Enabling Student Collaboration for Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Presented in a question and answer format, this site provides some useful information about student collaboration. Some of the questions answered are "why should students collaborate" and "how do I get students to collaborate".
Professional Doc
SEDL

Classroom Compass: Cooperative Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Get background about various ways to build cooperative learning into your curriculum, particularly in science and mathematics courses. Includes a bibliography and list of other resources.
Article
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.
Article
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: The Bored Bright Student

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ideas for differentiating lessons. Teaches will learn about the jigsaw method that will help in facilitating enrichment opportunities for students who are bored.
Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Using a Jigsaw for an Author Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a structure for an author study. Students will work in a jigsaw activity during a 9-week author study. Downloadable graphic organizers accompany this author's study.
Article
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: The Slow Student

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an explanation of ways to assist students who need differentiated instruction. This article focuses on ways to assist student who struggle with keeping up with the pace in the classroom.
Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Motivating Students: Pick a Card, Any Card

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient grouping strategy. Teachers will learn to motivate students with the "Pick a Card, Any Card" strategy. It explains how to use it to select parts for reading a play in class.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Majestic Peaks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students research plant and animal life on mountains, as well as different weather regions. They then work in groups to present their information to the class.

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