Illustrative Mathematics
Alike or Different Game
How are a circle and triangle alike? How are they different? These are the types of questions children will answer while playing this fun geometry game. Including a variety of conventional and unconventional shapes, this activity allows...
Butterfield Canyon Elementary
Think Win-Win: Everyone Can Win
Can there be scenarios where everyone feels happy with the result? Learn about win-win situations and conflict resolution with a series of exercises and games designed to encourage teamwork and cooperative learning.
Roald Dahl
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Follow up a reading of The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl with this collaborative lesson on teamwork. Starting with a fun team game, learners go on to investigate examples of teamwork in the story before...
John Wiley & Sons
Games, Role Plays, and Exercises
Whether you're lost at sea, lost in the woods, or testing communication skills, teamwork is always important. Build your middle and high schoolers' cooperative and collaborative skills with four activities that prompts groups to compete...
Science Matters
Oh Heron
Two teams—the environmentalists and herons—play four rounds of the game, Oh Heron. Using hand symbols to represent food, shelter, and water, players locate their match to produce more herons while those unmatched decompose.
Collaborative Learning Project
Four in a Row Addition and Subtraction
Scroll down to find four fun addition and subtraction partner game boards, complete with endless opportunities for practice with numbers 0-38. Kids choose numbers from a number box and, depending on the game, either find the sum or the...
Collaborative Learning Project
Simple to Complex Sentences
Such a creative game idea, this activity might actually make grammar fun! Learners play a modified game of connect-four by identifying the grammatical name for different words and phrases and then working them into simple sentences to...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Decimals and Fractions
Reinforce the concept of fractions and decimals as part of a whole with a lesson plan that begins with a mixed review, then goes into a three problem guided practice, and ends with a collaborative activity. The guided practice and...
Lee & Low Books
First Come the Zebra Teacher’s Guide
Accompany a reading of First Come the Zebra written and illustrated by Lynne Barasch with a teacher's guide equipped with before reading, vocabulary, and after reading activities. Additional social studies,...
National Park Service
Fitting In
Birds help other birds find food? Scholars are placed into one of five groups of different birds. Each group then "feeds" on letters of paper in a field and gather five pieces per person. As each group plays, more food is exposed,...
Pittsburg Area Chamber of Commerce
Introductions: Team Building
Whether its in the classroom, on the basketball court, or in the office, being able to work as part of team is essential for people of all ages and in all walks of life. Help build this important skill in your students with this...
Blake Education
Drama Warm Ups
Here's a 15-page packet packed with ideas for warm-up activities that can be used for drama classes or in content courses. Each activity is coded to indicate materials needed, space requirements and appropriate audience. A great...
Curated OER
Wheel of Pharaoh
In this lesson, students will review important facts and concepts about ancient Egyptian civilization and identify important vocabulary and names pertaining to ancient Egypt.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Team Efforts
Try these cooperative games to explore the benefits of teamwork with students.
Other
Kids Voting Usa
Kids Voting USA offers learning activities on the history and importance of voting, as well as a timeline of suffrage in the United States. Each learning activity includes materials, objectives, and questions to be raised in class.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: A Language Arts Grammar Jigsaw
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a cooperative grouping strategy. This site explains how to engage students using the Jigsaw method for grammar study.
Other
Hummingbird Educational Resources: Ladybugs and Insects
This is a resource for any teacher looking for some ideas to use to complement a unit on bugs. Scroll down for songs, center ideas, crafts, science discovery, math ideas, dramatic play ideas and much more!