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Group and Partner Posters

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Partners and Groups become acronyms on these posters that encourage kids to respect others, stay on task, participate actively, ask questions, and more when working with others.
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Lesson Plan #2 (Cooperative Group Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students define responsibility, list steps of choice making, and solve problems. They create decision making scenarios in cooperative group settings.
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Cooperative Group Spelling Game

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Partners or groups work together to practice the correct spelling of words. They speed-cut letters from print sources and arrange them into correctly spelled words from their lists. Newspapers are suggested, but magazines might result in...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Cooperation

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars practice cooperation by working together for a common cause. After a short demonstration, learners fill in a T-Chart describing how cooperation looks and sounds. Small groups work together to pick up tiny beads and put...
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Communication and Social Networks

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils work in cooperative groups to explore communication needs of our world. They are assigned a demographic area and asked to create ways to solve communication problems with innovative ideas. They also explore areas that can help...
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Working Cooperatively in a Social System

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Using an informative resource, scholars view a PowerPoint about working cooperatively in a social system. Pupils then use their newfound knowledge to create a flowchart defining the systems of an organization. 
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Cooperative Learning Units

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Groups of learners work cooperatively to perform research, and compile a presentation for the class on a selected Nevada Indian Tribes. Some of the topics researched are territorial movements, religion, social life, recreation, and food...
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American Minority Groups

For Teachers 12th
Explore the contributions individuals have made in the lives of American minority groups. Twelfth graders write a five-page expository piece providing a social history, examples of discrimination, and patterns of assimilation for an...
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Cooperative Puzzles

For Teachers K
Students discuss and demonstrate how to play and work cooperatively with other people and with a group. In small groups they role-play how to work cooperatively with each other, with the goal of completing their group's puzzle using...
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Guest Speaker Preparation: A Cooperative Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Are you planning to have a guest speaker talk to your class? Prepare in advance and help your class transform into an engaged and thoughtful audience. Before the visit, young writers work cooperatively to brainstorm what they want to...
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Catching on to Cooperation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students give examples of when they need to cooperate--work together--with others.
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Cooperation and Conflict Resolution

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a variety of activities designed to promote cooperation and positive conflict resolution. In cooperative groups, they create a comic strip or poster, play cooperative musical chairs, write a journal entry...
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What Was Everyday Life like in Colonial Virginia?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
What was everyday life like in Colonial Virginia? To find the answer cooperative groups work collaboratively to read an informational handout and complete a graphic organizer. The speaker of the group then shares their new-found...
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All About Groups & Community

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the various kinds of groups in our communities and lives. They make charts and drawings of different groups and complete a worksheet imbedded in this plan. The groups are a true cooperative format, with each...
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Encouraging Cooperative Learning Among Gifted and Talented Students

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Literature circles, and other similar methods, provide cooperative learning opportunities.
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Cooperation, Trust and Interdependence

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students experience what it is like to depend on a group for their safety and to accomplish a goal. They increase their need for interdependence and cooperation in building relationships. Students need to explore the effective...
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Beat the Clock

For Teachers K - 12th
Tired of wasting time trying to get your class to split up into groups? Engage in an activity to help your charges manage time. Learners reflect on a time they were left out or rejected, and then practice forming groups of three within...
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Group Rules and Expectations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore psychology by participating in a student behavior activity. In this group dynamic lesson plan, students identify ways to keep several students interested and focused on one task. Students complete worksheets discussing...
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Teamwork Towers

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students work in a cooperative groups to create a free standing tower of straws and pins in ten minutes. They watch a video of the cooperative groups working, discuss the process and list the things they could do to improve the cooperation.
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Basketball Dribbling Activities

For Teachers 6th - 10th
A gold mine of basketball dribbling drills! There are an assorted variety of drills here to keep those players busy. Some involve cooperation, some competition, but all of them are about practicing dribbling.
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Cooperation

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars, in groups, "Build An Animal where they need to cooperate in order to be successful and then make a storyboard for a Powerpoint presentation.
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Cooperation Blocks

For Teachers 2nd - Higher Ed
Students work together in groups to assemble squares by using cut pieces of poster board. In this cooperative learning lesson plan, students each have their own pieces that match with other group members pieces to create a square. They...
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Drugs, Risks and the Nervous System

For Teachers 6th - 12th
In cooperative groups, middle schoolers contemplate the probability of 18 different situations occurring. After they make predictions, they compare them to the actual risk factors. This eye-opening exercise demonstrates that the odds of...
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Explaining Factors Causing Conflict and Cooperation

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discuss what causes conflicts amongst groups especially pertaining to Native American tribes. In this conflicts lesson plan, students have discussion questions that they verbally answer and write in a journal.

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