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PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Cooperate
Teach your children some cooperative games to play with friends, in this activity from Arthur.
PE Central
Pe Central: Cooperation Assessment
Ask young scholars to think critically about their previous experiences with cooperative learning and physical education activities. This website provides a list of questions that students need to answer on their own. Turned-in responses...
PE Central
Pe Central: Cooperative Learning: Sneak Attack
Teach you students "Sneak attack," and enforce the importance of cooperation while playing this game. Game requires simple equiptment as well as students' knowledge of the terms "Offense," and "Defense."
Other
Laura Candler: Sylverster and the Magic Pebble Activities [Pdf]
Lesson plan utilizing cooperative learning for use with the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig. Includes printable word-sort cards and discussion question cards.
Other
United States Postal Service: Voice of an Extraordiary Educator [Pdf]
One of the Postal Service's Education Kits, this pamphlet, from the Visionary Voices series, is about Anna Julia Cooper, who was an African American educator, feminist, and scholar throughout the late 19th century and the fist half of...
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 plan where students can see annotated examples of active reading, stop at logical places in the text to answer discussion...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Oranges How Many Sections Are Inside?
In this biology investigation students will be asked to attempt to determine how many sections exist in an orange without having peeled it. Students will work in small cooperative groups. Each group will be able to use a small magnifying...
Other
National Geographic: Jason Learning
[Free Registration/Login Required] Educators and students will enjoy visiting the JASON Project, a NASA and National Geographic cooperation which works to provide accurate and intriguing scientific knowledge for students.
Government of Alberta
Alberta Learning: Focus on Inquiry [Pdf]
This document provides supports for implementing inquiry-based learning activities in the classroom and is intended for teachers working on their own or in teams, with or without the support of a teacher-librarian or other library...
CPALMS
Ice Cream Truck Favorites
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will determining the top three flavors of ice cream bars that an ice cream truck should serve. Students must work in cooperative groups as they work to...
CPALMS
Moving on Up
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be preparing for a move to another state. Students must work in cooperative groups as they determine which moving company will be the best for...
PE Central
Pe Central: High Middle School Pe Lesson Ideas: Progressive Bowling
Students work together in "progressive bowling" to knock down all ten pins. This activity requires students to work together and to practice their rolling technique. Includes ideas for varying this activity and assessing students...
Other
Cooper: Alan Cooper's Homonyms
An alphabetical list of homonyms: words of different meanings that sound the same. Also includes a humorous look at homonyms in the "All about Homonyms" link.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Determine the Vertices of Transformed Images
This hands-on lesson uses exploration and discovery to help students determine the coordinates of the vertices of various figures when translated, rotated, or reflected in a coordinate plane. The exploration phase will access students'...
Other
Points of Light
The mission of the organization is to instill compassion and the idea of service and philanthropy in school children. Find out how to start a Care Club and what projects the children can participate in.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Life's Little Lessons: Sharing
There will be times in life when everyone needs to share. By having caring adults around who can help young children learn that sharing is one way to build friendships, children can learn that sharing with friends (who have become...
Other
Social Psychology Network: Jigsaw Classroom
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...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Take a 2nd Look"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. This strategy's focus is to promote higher-order thinking skills and cooperative learning.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Take a 2nd Look"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. This strategy's focus is to promote higher-order thinking skills and cooperative learning. Good resource.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "Interpreting Maxims"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes motivating students to read, encouraging students to use critical thinking skills, cooperative learning and shared experiences, and appreciation...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Beauty"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting cooperative learning, encouraging the integration of knowledge and creativity, the importance of looking beyond the physical, and the...
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
The Island of the Blue Dolphins: Mission Santa Barbara
Explore the novel "The Island of the Blue Dolphins," by Scott O'Dell. This site offers an interactive technology related activity for this book.
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute Online: Coming to Our Senses
Help students make "Sense," of their senses by using them in the classroom. Site provides discovery activities students can do on themselves, in their classrooms and around campus. A scavenger hunt is also provided.
My Science Site
Beneath the Sea: Blowing Ballast [Pdf]
Students dive down deep as they experience a hands-on activity and build a model of a submersible. Lesson plan includes a web connection, a teaching guide, extensions to learning as well as curriculum links and national science...